Matthew Curtis

Matthew Curtis

Amsterdam Suite, 1st movement

  “The Amsterdam Suite, written in 1995 and first performed by the Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra the following year, seeks to convey some impressions of a city I have visited...

Matthew Curtis

Amsterdam Suite, 2nd Movement

“The Amsterdam Suite, written in 1995 and first performed by the Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra the following year, seeks to convey some impressions of a city I have visited...

Matthew Curtis

Amsterdam Suite, 3rd Movement

  “The Amsterdam Suite, written in 1995 and first performed by the Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra the following year, seeks to convey some impressions of a city I have visited...

Matthew Curtis

Amsterdam Suite, complete

“The Amsterdam Suite, written in 1995 and first performed by the Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra the following year, seeks to convey some impressions of a city I have visited...

Matthew Curtis

Fiesta

"Despite its Spanish title, the concert overture "Fiesta" is really Italian, recalling a festival that I saw several times as a child in the late 1960s while holidaying in a village at the...

Matthew Curtis

Holiday Mood

“Paths to Urbino” (Symphonic Suite) owes its name to a walking tour in which I participated in spring 1995 in the Marche, a region of north eastern Italy about 120 miles south of...

Matthew Curtis

Outward Bound

Matthew Curtis’ music, notable for its melody and orchestral colouring, reflects his conviction, continually reinforced by experience, that the possibilities of traditional tonality and...

Matthew Curtis

Ring in the new

Ring in the New is presented as a Concert Overture, but could also be presented equally as a Concert March. It is a perfect example of Matthew Curtis’ compositional technique, so...