


Matthew Whittall news
Matthew Whittall will have a residency with the Vancouver Chamber Choir in 2022-2023 including performances of his works This Advent Moon, As One Listens to the Rain and Songs of Travel – a recent piece commissioned by the Carice Singers and Spira Ensemble. The residency will end with a world premiere of a new work…

Matthew Whittall: Northlands – Concertino for horn and strings
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 and otherworldly light, which had had an immediate and powerful impact both on the composer and the concept for the piece. Duration 23 minutes. Solo…

Matthew Whittall: Love Is Little for mixed choir
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, forming a quiet, ambient soundscape in which each singer performs their own part freely. The piece is suitable for larger choirs but also works with…

Matthew Whittall: Bright Ferment – String Quartet No. 2
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 9 min. Score & parts 55011-510-1, € 39,90

Matthew Whittall: As One Listens to the Rain
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 noise of the rain. 55011-506-4, € 8,90

Matthew Whittall: Lauantaisauna (Saturday Sauna) for mixed choir
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, € 3,90

Matthew Whittall: Christmas Hath a Darkness – Four carols for Advent
for mixed choirText: Christina RossettiThis cycle of carols traces the long nights of watchfulness before Christmas, with the great event constantly deferred, only glimpsed periodically in different visions before the music turns inward again to contemplation. 55011-455-5, € 13,60

Matthew Whittall: Northlands
album for horn and stringsNorthlands is a concertante work for horn and strings, written for Tommi Hyytiäinen. The composer writes that Northlands was influenced by his brief experience with Iceland, its epic landscapes and otherworldly light, which had had an immediate and powerful impact both on the composer and the concept for the piece. Study…

Matthew Whittall: Event Horizons
Sonata for alto saxophone and pianoEvent Horizons is an intensely emotional piece, stemming from reflections on the immensity of the universe and one’s own place in it. Whittall was greatly affected by the spaciousness and subtle intricacies of Eastern music – the gamelan music of Bali in particularly. 55011-432-6, € 32,90