Matthew Whittall's large-scale choral song cycle Songs of Travel (2020-2021) is set to poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), compiled and adapted by the composer. Duration 30 minutes. All the...

In this set of love songs "love is a place" after one of the great poets of the genre, Matthew Whittall wanted to create a sense of progression from various...

Matthew Whittall's pair of psalm-based settings was a commission from the Finnish union of church musicians, for Swedish-language pieces specifically intended for liturgical use. Du kröner året (You crown the...

Downloadable and printable PDF edition. The composer tells: "Waiting to hear was commissioned by my publisher, Fennica Gehrman, as part of a volume of new duos celebrating their 20th anniversary....

Northlands (album for horn and string orchestra) is a concertante work for horn and strings. Whittall tells that it was influenced by his brief experience with Iceland, its epic landscapes...

Matthew Whittall’s (b. 1975) Love is Little (2009) is a modern motet which uses a Shaker hymn as cantus firmus. The original melody is gradually slowed down, looped and fragmented,...

The second string quartet by Matthew Whittall saw daylight only some 20 years after his first one. Bright Ferment was commissioned for the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition. Duration...

The long-lasting admiration for the poetry of Octavio Paz inspired Matthew Whittall to compose this captivating choir piece. A constant ostinato motif is carried throughout the piece depicting the white...

This charming work to a poem by Niilo Rauhala describes the holy place of peace, meditation and closeness, best experienced in the cathedral of nature on a summer evening.55011-530-9, €...