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== Produzione ==

Although he has written a fair amount of vocal music, notably a song-cycle, ''The Golden Kingdom'', on poems of [[Kathleen Raine]] and ''Cantiga'', a dramatic cantata on the tragic story of [[InezInés de Castro]], to a text by the novelist [[Maggie Hemingway]] (who was Matthews's partner for the last ten years of her life), Matthews's output as a whole is centred on the classical instrumental and orchestral forms. His series of (to date) thirteen string quartets is one of the most distinguished that any composer has essayed in recent years; he currently has written nine symphonies. They, and an accompanying cluster of works such as ''September Music'', the ''Serenade'', two violin concertos, concertos for cello, for piano, and for oboe, the symphonic poems ''In the Dark Time'', ''The Music of Dawn'', ''A Vision and a Journey'' and the monumental orchestral ''Chaconne'' (inspired by a poem of [[Geoffrey Hill]]), show that he can handle large and small orchestras with skill.

Matthews celebrated his 70th birthday in 2013. The occasion was marked by: a Nash Ensemble portrait concert at the Wigmore Hall – which included the premiere of ''A Blackbird Sang'', a quartet for flute and strings; a major new symphonic poem, ''A Vision of the Sea'', premiered at the Proms by the BBC Philharmonic; a new concerto for violin, viola and strings co-commissioned by the Presteigne and Cheltenham Festivals; two piano pieces for William Howard performed at the Spitalfields Festival; and the release of two recordings – a disc of piano music for Toccata Classics featuring pianist Laura Mikkola, and a Dutton disc of Matthews’ Symphony No. 7 (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/John Carewe) and ''Vespers'' for Choir and Orchestra (BSO/[[Boston Symphony Orchestra|BSO]]/The Bach Choir]]/David Hill)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fabermusic.com/composers/david-matthews/biography|title=David Matthews - Biography|website=www.fabermusic.com}}</ref>

== Libri ==