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Record label Nimbus Alliance
Recording code NI 6382
Number of discs 1
Total playing time 63’55
Release date 2019
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Recorded at St George’s, Bristol
Recorded on 8 May 2018
Orchestra / ensemble English Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Kenneth Woods
Includes the following works:
Reviews
Robert Matthew-Walker, Classical Source, September 2019 A serious and compelling work of consistent musical art throughout… Here, in a number of ways, is a genuine symphony for our times… In its way, Matthews 9 is a masterpiece: in wartime 1943, when Matthews was born, the population of the World was around 2.5-billion. Today, it approaches 8-billion, but whereas in 1943 one could legitimately cite more than twenty greatly significant composers active and producing music that was widely admired and which has stood the test of time, today, there is barely a handful, yet amongst them must be counted David Matthews.
Philip Scott, Limelight, August 2019 …a genuine symphonist… [whose Ninth] squeezes every drop of developmental interest out of his theme…
Guy Rickards, New Klassik, June 2019 A couple of other works on the record [Double Concerto and Variations on Bach's Chorale Die Nacht ist Kommen] confirm Matthews as a champion of England's top league of string orchestra composers, along with Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Tippett.
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