Performances feature four arrangements by David commissioned by Amsterdam Sinfonietta.

Book tickets via Michael Rawling on 020 8959 3866 or online. Thanks to the generosity of the CAVATINA Music Trust, under 25s are admitted free.

The Scottish Ensemble will be touring David's arrangement of Dvorak's Love Songs around Scotland in the week preceding the Wigmore Hall date as part of their 'Love and War in Bohemia' programme.

Part of the London English Song Festival.

David has been commissioned to write an anthem for the commemorative WWI Centenary service at Westminster Abbey on 4 August. It will be televised live on BBC Two from 10pm and David's new work will conclude the service.

The service, which concluded with David's anthem 'To what God shall we chant our songs of battle?', is available to view and download on BBC iPlayer until 11th August. You can also listen to the anthem here.

6pm -- Performances of Nash commissions in the presence of the composers. Includes David's Horn Quintet with Richard Watkins on horn.

7.30pm -- Includes David's arrangement of Berlioz Les nuits d'ete with soprano Kate Royal.

Part of Scottish Ensemble's Night and Day Scottish tour - more details

5th December, 7.30pm -- Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen -- Premiere
6th December, 7.30pm -- Inverness Cathedral
7th December, 7.30pm -- Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
9th December, 7.30pm -- Caird Hall, Dundee
10th December, 7.30pm -- St John's Kirk, Perth
11th December, 7.30pm -- Wellington Church, Glasgow

Available on the Dutton Vocalion record label.

The Kreutzer Quartet will be recording David's String Quartet No. 2 and No. 3 on 29 January for Volume 3 of the Toccata Classics complete string quartets project. String Quartet No. 1 has already been recorded for this CD.

William Howard will be recording Four Portraits for piano and The Shorter Ring on 24 February for a Nimbus Alliance CD.

In March, the Orchestra of St Pauls conducted by Ben Palmer will record David's arrangements for string orchestra of the Elgar String Quartet and Malcolm Arnold's Second String Quartet for SOMM Recordings.

'Probably as important a British choral release as we'll see this year. David Matthews's Vespers... is a work both of great beauty and of genuine spiritual force... I was moved and rather awed by the mastery of large forces to such humane, celebratory goals...
'In both the Symphony and the Vespers, it's the cumulative power of Matthews's music that impresses, the ability to build huge purposeful paragraphs that actually go somewhere and deliver on arrival - a rare faculty these days. Blazingly committed performances do full justice to, yes, one of our greatest living composers.'

The Kreutzer Quartet have now recorded David's first three string quartets for Volume Three of the Toccata Classics Complete String Quartets project which will be released in the Autumn. Volume Four will have arrangements of Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op.101, 11 Bagatelles Op.119, and the slow movement of the sonata Op.22, which were recorded in July. It will also contain David's String Quartet No.11 to be recorded shortly.

In March, the Orchestra of St Pauls, conducted by Ben Palmer, recorded David's arrangements for string orchestra of the Elgar String Quartet and Malcolm Arnold's Second String Quartet for SOMM Recordings to be released in March 2015.

Following David's 70th birthday in 2013, Thomas Hyde has edited a book including David's key writings, tributes and essays examing David's output. It is published by Plumbago Books and can be purchased from the distributor Boydell and Brewer or via Amazon.

Read more about the book content and a review by Richard Whitehouse for Gramophone.

Full recording details and Richard Whitehouse review