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David Matthews: Anna, Symphony No. 11 & Flute Concerto

10/17/2025, 6 Tracks, 1:15:40

Featuring

  • Jac van Steen
  • Emma Halnan
  • Ulster Orchestra
  • David Matthews

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Composer's Artistic Vision

David Matthews, one of the leading symphonists of our time, aims to find new ways to renew the inherited forms of the past, drawing inspiration from the natural world.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

David Matthews's Eleventh Symphony is his sixth attempt to write a single-movement symphony, influenced by Schoenberg's First String Quartet and Sibelius's Seventh Symphony.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Flautist Emma Halnan, who won the woodwind category of the BBC Young Musician competition in 2010, has performed as a concerto soloist with orchestras such as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album features the first recordings of David Matthews's Symphonic Diptych, Symphony No. 11, and Flute Concerto.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Jac van Steen, the conductor, has held posts as Music Director and Chief Conductor with several European orchestras and opera houses, including the Dutch National Ballet and Staatskapelle Weimar.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

David Matthews studied Classics at the University of Nottingham, composed from age 16, and was an assistant to Benjamin Britten in the late 1960s.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The Symphonic Diptych is an orchestral reduction of David Matthews's opera "Anna," created at the suggestion of conductor Jac van Steen.

Source: Booklet

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