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 […]
Preludes
Details Duration (min): various Instrumentation: Piano Recordings Preludes and Bagatelles Program Notes Preludes by Canadian composer Michael Matthews are an ongoing series of piano pieces, the earliest of which dates from 1994. Interested in performing works by Michael Matthews? Visit the Commissions page or the Contact page. Interested in programming the music of Michael Matthews? […]
In Emptiness, Over Emptiness
Details Duration (min): 12 Instrumentation: Soprano, Tape, Live Electronics Recordings The International Computer Music Association commission awards, 1994-96 Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Sound Samples Therese Costes – soprano Program Notes I wish Plants in the fields Could talk – They must have tears! They must have songs! Tekkan Yosano (1873-1935) To hatch a crow, […]
Layerings
Details Duration (min): 14 Instrumentation: Vibraphone and Tape Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Sound Samples Program Notes In Layerings prerecorded sounds of vibraphone and other percussion instruments are processed and mixed to create a tapestry of sonic material from which and into which the vibraphone emerges and merges during the course of the performance. I have attempted […]
Scattered Mirrors
Details Duration (min): 8 Instrumentation: Piano Recordings Adventures of Piano Woman Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Program Notes Scattered Mirrors by Canadian composer Michael Matthews When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire, The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches, In windless cold that is the heart’s heat, Reflecting in […]
Of Time and Sky
Details Duration (min): 20 Instrumentation: Piano Recordings Of Time and Sky Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Sound Samples Peter Vinograde, Piano Program Notes Of Time and Sky by Canadian composer Michael Matthews. Although the title, which comes from a poem by Pablo Neruda, was chosen after the piece was completed, its imagery captures the multi-dimensional […]
The First Sea
Details Duration (min): 9 Instrumentation: Bass Clarinet and Tape Recordings The Composer in the Computer Age–II Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Program Notes The First Sea was inspired by a Pablo Neruda poem, one that speaks of the feelings associated with discoveries, with the expansion of consciousness: “mine alone were those solitary places, mine alone […]
Fantasy
Details Duration (min): 12 Instrumentation: Solo Violin Recordings Jeté Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Sound Samples Victor Schulz, violin Program Notes Fantasy by Canadian composer Michael Matthews The first version of Fantasy was written during the winter of 1984; I was living and teaching in Korea, and had just returned from a visit to Canada, during […]
Elegy
Details Instrumentation: Piano Program Notes Elegy is a 1983 solo piano work by Canadian composer Michael Matthews. It was written for Charles Horton. Interested in programming the music of Michael Matthews? Learn more about how to commission a new work, browse the full list of compositions, listen to recordings, view the press kit, or get […]
Suite
Details Instrumentation: Guitar