Return to previous page david-matthews.co.uk
 
Work search > Works With An Opus Number > Work details
 
 

Work Search

All Works
Published Works
Unpublished Works
Works With An Opus Number
Works With No Opus Number
Recent Works

Search by Category

Orchestral

  • Symphonies
  • Concertos
  • String Orchestra
  • Other Orchestral Works

Chamber Music

  • String Quartets
  • Instrumental - Piano
  • Instrumental - Organ
  • Instrumental - Strings
  • Instrumental - Wind/Brass
  • Other Chamber Music

Choral

Vocal

Opera

Arrangements

Film Scores (director)

Withdrawn

Title Word Search

  

Romanza for Cello and Small Orchestra, Op.49

Category Orchestral > Other Orchestral Works
Composed 1990
Duration (approx) 12 minutes
Parts 

Cello, small orchestra: 2.2.2.2 - 2.0.0.0 strings (min 6.5.4.3.2)

Recording(s) A Birthday Concert for my Grandmother
Publisher Faber Music
Commission 

Mstislav Rostropovich for the 90th Birthday of
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

First performance 2 August 1990
Venue Buckingham Palace
Orchestra / Ensemble English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Raymond Leppard
Soloists / Players Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Review Robert Maycock, The Independent, 29 September 1990
  

As the Prince says in his foreword, he wanted the new pieces here to have “recognisable melodies and themes”; and this piece comes from the lyrical rather that the searching side of Matthews. But it grows into more than the wistful little number that its opening suggests – a fullscale, neatly wrought sonata movement with plenty of lovely cello writing.

 
  
Copyright on all site content held by David Matthews ©2024