NMC Recordings featuring the works of Colin MATTHEWS   ~   David MATTHEWS Colin MATTHEWS (b. 1946)_________________NMC D033 The Great Journey Fuga • Night's Mask • The Great Journey David Wilson-Johnson, baritone • Patrizia Kwella, soprano • The Nash Ensemble • Lionel Friend, conductor 'A fizzing display of musical energy for which its composer is renowned baritone David Wilson-Johnson and the Nash Ensemble acquit themselves superbly' BBC Music Magazine 'A useful introduction to one of our most gifted composers. Matthews has a capacity to make you dizzy' The Sunday Times Colin MATTHEWS (b. 1946)_________________NMC D101 Machines & Dreams       ANCORA - 2 CD SET Cello Concerto No.1 • Hidden Variables • Machines and Dreams • Memorial • Quatrain • Sonata No.5 Alexander Baillie, cello • London Sinfonietto • London Symphony Orchestra • Michael Tilson Thomas, John Carewe, conductors 'This set offers a rounded portrait of a restlessly questing composer… big architectonic pieces in performances of impressive might under Carewe' The Sunday Times Colin MATTHEWS (b. 1946)_________________NMCD149 Divertimento Oboe Quartet No.1 • String Quartet No.2 • Divertimento for Double String Quartet Divertimenti Ensemble • Brindisi Quartet More Information Colin MATTHEWS (b. 1946)_________________NMCD227 Violin Concerto Violin Concerto • Cortege • Cello Concerto No.2 Leila Josefowicz, violin • BBC Symphony Orchestra • Oliver Knussen conductor • Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra • Riccardo Chailly conductor • Anssi Karttunen cello • Rumon Gamba conductor More Information Colin MATTHEWS (b. 1946)_________________NMCD239 Postludes Anna Meredith: Tripotage Miniatures • Alexander Goehr: after “the Waking” • Colin Matthews: Postludes Aurora Orchestra • Nash Ensemble • Martyn Brabbins conductor • Britten Sinfonia • Nicholas Daniel oboe More Information David MATTHEWS (b. 1943)_________________NMC D021S David Matthews & Anthony Powers       CD SINGLE David MATTHEWS Piano Sonata Op.47 Anthony POWERS The Memory Room William Howard, piano 'Howard's playing throughout the disc is, as you might imagine, faultless' The Musical Times 'I enjoyed encountering The Memory Room… veering unpredictably between moments of Lisztian sparkle, Beethoven-like muscularity, nightclub jazziness and private meditation… and David Matthews's Piano Sonata… knottily motivic and propulsively rhythmic' Classic CD David MATTHEWS (b. 1943)_________________NMC D067 In the Dark Time Chaconne • In the Dark Time BBC Symphony Orchestra • Jac van Steen, conductor 'Richly orchestrated, with a fine balance between ensemble textures and individual instrumental lines and colours, these vividly captured performances are played with sensitivity and considerable flair by the BBCSO' The Observer 'This release is immensely welcome: two of the finest British orchestral works of the Eighties, utterances symphonic in scale and at least as powerful as any of Matthews's numbered symphonies… the performances, beautifully paced and balanced, seem exemplary' BBC Music Magazine David MATTHEWS (b. 1943)_________________NMC D084 Symphony No.4       ANCORA Cantiga • Introit • September Music • Symphony No.4 Jill Gomez, soprano • Bournemouth Sinfonietta • John Carewe, conductor • East of England Orchestra • Malcolm Nabarro, conductor 'Beautiful, individual things in all four pieces… Matthews is at his best when he's most unashamedly Romantic' BBC Music Magazine 'A highly individual voice… The Symphony No.4 … plays musical games of great ingenuity. Sample this music, accessible in the best sense, by the tango fourth movement, described as 'slightly manic" The Sunday Telegraph David MATTHEWS (b. 1943)_________________NMC D152 Winter Passions Terrible Beauty • Clarinet Quartet • Marina • String Trio • String Trio No.2 • Winter Passions Susan Bickley, mezzo-soprano • Stephan Loges, baritone • The Nash Ensemble • Lionel Friend, conductor More Information NMC Recordings are distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading, P.O.Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone (03) 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile (03) 9444 6879