Altas Piedras
Details Duration (min): 13 Instrumentation: bassoon and digital audio Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Program Notes Commissioned by Wendy Holdaway and the Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras (gracias a Rodrigo Sigal) First performance: May 9, 2012 Morelia, Mexico CMMAS Bassoon Festival Wendy Holdaway, bassoon Title from Octavio Paz: Ustica (from Piedra del […]
Sky Rings
Details Duration (min): 14 Instrumentation: clarinet and digital audio Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Program Notes Sky Rings is a work for clarinet and digital audio by Canadian composer Michael Matthews. It was commissioned by clarinettist Esther Lamneck. The title is taken from a poem by Dennis Cooley. winter is when snakes turn into garter belts […]
De Reflejo a Fulgor
Details Duration (min): 16 Instrumentation: piano and digital audio Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Program Notes Commissioned by the Mexican Center for Music and Sonic Arts for pianist Duane Cochran. Perdido en las transparancias voy de reflejo a fulgor, pero no veo al sol. Octavio Paz
Einklang
Details Duration (min): 12 Instrumentation: Two Pianos Score Excerpts Mvt. 1 excerpt Mvt. 2 excerpt Program Notes Einklang by Canadian composer Michael Matthews For about the past ten years I have been composing, on and off, a number of pieces for solo piano, variously named Preludes and Bagatelles. This piece, Einklang, came out of that […]
Bagatelles
Details Instrumentation: Piano Recordings Preludes and Bagatelles Score Excerpts Bagatelle No. 1 Bagatelle No. 6 Program Notes Bagatelles by Canadian composer Michael Matthews are part of an ongoing series of piano works. They have been recorded by Belgian pianist Daan Vandewalle on Ravello Records.
Vertical Garden
Details Duration (min): 9 Instrumentation: Flute and Tape Recordings Flying Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Sound Samples Alejandro Escuer, Flute Program Notes Vertical Garden by Canadian composer Michael Matthews is a work for solo flute and digital audio. The title of the piece comes from the poem The Mummy by the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). […]
Fantasy/Nocturne
Details Duration (min): 15 Instrumentation: Piano Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Sound Samples Roger Admiral, piano Program Notes Fantasy/Nocturne was written as a type of homage to Chopin. I have looked at some of his work through a series of filters, some more distorted than others. The idea for this was suggested by the work’s […]
Ernst Toller: Requiem for an Idea — Fantasy for Solo Cello
Details Duration (min): 17 Instrumentation: Solo Cello Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Sound Samples Paul Marleyn, Cello Program Notes Ernst Toller Fantasy for solo cello. The music for this piece is taken from my work written for actor and cello with text by Per Brask. In its original form, Ernst Toller: Requiem for an Idea is […]
…of the rolling worlds
Details Duration (min): 12 Instrumentation: Bass Clarinet and Tape Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Sound Samples Program Notes …of the rolling worlds by Canadian composer Michael Matthews The title of this piece comes from a poem by the Argentine poet Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938). SIERRA An invisible hand silently caresses the sad pulp of the rolling […]
Postlude
Details Duration (min): 5 Instrumentation: Piano Recordings 10 by 8 Preludes and Bagatelles Program Notes Postlude by Canadian composer Michael Matthews This short piano work began life as a member of a projected set of Bagatelles (of which several have been completed and several others are in progress). During the composition process this work seemed […]