Recent and Forthcoming Performances25/04/2013 -- From Sea to Sky Michael Downes | St Andrews Chamber Orchestra Work details: Op.59 - From Sea to Sky 25/04/2013 -- Three Birds and a Farewell Michael Downes | St Andrews Chamber Orchestra Work details: Op.118 - Three Birds and a Farewell 28/04/2013, 11am -- Piano Trio No.2 The Grier Trio | Blackheath Concert Halls, London Work details: Op.61 - Piano Trio No.2 27/05/2013, 7.30pm -- White Nights English Music Festival, Dorchester Abbey Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin) | Ben Palmer (conductor) | Orchestra of St Paul's Work details: Op.26 - White Nights (violin, small orchestra) 31/05/2013, 7.30pm -- Skies are now Skies Spring Sounds: Spring Seas Simon Wall (tenor) | The Orchestra of the Swan Work details: Op.64 - Skies now are Skies (String Quartet No.7) 07/06/2013, 7.30pm -- Britten Quartet No.2 - arrangement (world premiere) Quartets Squared The Scottish Ensemble | The Music Hall, Aberdeen 14/06/2013, 7.30pm -- Four Portraits for Piano A 70th Birthday Celebration for William Howard William Howard (piano) | Spitalfields Music Festival, London 14/06/2013, 7.30pm -- The Shorter Ring A 70th Birthday Celebration for William Howard William Howard (piano) | Spitalfields Music Festival, London Work details: The Shorter Ring (Richard Wagner) 27/06/2013 -- The Flaying of Marsyas (arrangement) City of London Festival Nicholas Daniel (oboe) | Britten Sinfonia Work details: Op.42 - The Flaying of Marsyas 29/06/2013, 7.30pm -- Romanza for Violin and Strings Madeleine Mitchell (violin) | George Vass (conductor) | Orchestra Nova | Proms at St Jude's | Hampstead Garden Suburb Work details: Op.119 - Romanza for Violin and Strings 30/06/2013 -- Psalm 23 (The Lord is my Shepherd) David Wordsworth | Addison Singers | Ramsey Festival, Cambridgeshire Work details: Op.90 - Psalm 23 (The Lord is my Shepherd) 03/07/2013, 1pm -- Four Portraits for Piano Pamela Lane Memorial Concert William Howard (piano) | Deal Music Festival, Kent 04/07/2013 -- String Quartet No.12 Lycka Festival, Sweden Work details: Op.114 - String Quartet No.12 05/07/2013 -- Four Portraits for Piano Schumann, Faure and the Matthews Brothers William Howard (piano) | Cheltenham Music Festival 07/07/2013 -- Concerto for Violin and Viola (world premiere) Mark Eager | The Welsh Sinfonia | Cheltenham Music Festival 08/07/2013, 7.30pm -- String Quartet No.10 Beethoven Begins 'Bagatelles and Variations' The Kreutzer Quartet with Diana Matthews (viola) | Wilton's Music Hall, London Work details: Op.84 - String Quartet No.10 16/07/2013 -- A Vision of the Sea (world premiere) BBC Proms - Prom 6: David Matthews, Rachmaninov and Nielsen Juan Jose Mena | BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Royal Albert Hall Other news18/04/2012 -- Forthcoming CD release: David Matthews - Complete String Quartets, Volume Two The second volume of David's complete string quartets, recorded by the Kreutzer Quartet on the Toccatta Classics label, was released on 3 May at Kings Place prior to the Kreutzer's 'Voces Intimae' concert.
The Kreutzers recorded David's First Quartet on 11 April and this work will appear together with The Flaying of Marsyas in the third volume which should be released in 2013. 18/04/2012 -- Recording of Dark Pastoral Dark Pastoral will be recorded for Dutton Epoch on 29th May by Guy Johnston (cello) and The Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Martin Yates. 29/09/2012 -- A Vision of the Sea Full news item details Between 26 July and 13 August I was at my house in Deal, working on my orchestral piece for next year's BBC Proms, which is provisionally titled A Vision of the Sea. From before dawn until dusk I was surrounded by the constant calls of Herring Gulls, and they have got into the piece; in fact have been transformed into one of its main motivic ideas. At the same time, almost every day I made watercolour paintings of the sea and the sky, the majority in the early morning, which I felt helped me to compose. The weather during this time was a mixture of sunshine and cloud, and some of the skies were spectacular.
View the sequence of nineteen paintings. 07/11/2012 -- CD out now: English Violin Duos Performed by Retorica. Availble on the NMC record label. Full recording details Work details: Op.79 - Eight Duos |