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Matthews-Owen has long been noted as a sensitive collaborator in his more usual role as an accompanist. But he also holds dear working with composers and, for the first time on disc, he steps... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Nov 2017
Catalogue No: NI6354
Label: Nimbus
Length: 63 minutes

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Phibbs: Preludes

Work length23:42

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Andrew Matthews-Owen

No. 1

Track length5:09

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No. 2 "Fantasia for Colin"

Track length4:52

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No. 3

Track length3:26

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No. 4

Track length3:49

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No. 5 "Neon"

Track length4:26

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No. 6 "Elegy"

Track length2:00

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Tabakova: Modétudes

Work length12:35

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Andrew Matthews-Owen

I. Dorian

Track length1:03

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II. Lydian

Track length2:21

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III. Ionian

Track length1:12

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IV. Locrian

Track length3:13

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V. Phrygian

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VI. Aeolian

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VII. Mixolydian

Track length1:19

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Kendall: On the chequer’d Field Array’d

Work length11:40

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Andrew Matthews-Owen

I. Mindplay

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II. Middlegame

Track length5:47

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III. Coda

Track length2:48

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Tabakova: Halo

Work length11:57

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Andrew Matthews-Owen

I. From Darkness

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II. To Blinding Shine

Track length2:46

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III. Calm and Settled Glow

Track length5:31

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Tabakova: Nocturne

Work length3:33

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Andrew Matthews-Owen

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"I have long enjoyed performing and recording a wonderful variety of contemporary music by some of our most exciting and innovative composers. Most of this repertoire has been for voice and piano, or chamber ensemble, affording me the joy and privilege of working with numerous fine and distinguished musicians.

This CD is however my first recording of contemporary music for solo piano, and has been a revelatory and inspiring experience.

Introducing music written in our own time is atonce a joy and a responsibility. Often, and despite our best efforts , some very good scores are heard on only a handful of occasions. For many listeners it will be their first encounter with a new composer. Thus a clear belief in the sound world of every composer one premieres is vital not just to the success of a new piece by to winning or losing pote ntial admirers for living composers. The composers on this disc dwell in very different yet equally marvellous sound worlds." -Andrew Matthews-Owen

Described recently as a ‘splendid keyboard artist’ (Fanfare Magazine USA), ‘an immaculate accompanist… dashing virtuosity’ (BBC Music Magazine) and ‘a superlative pianist’ (MusicWeb International), Andrew Matthews-Owen enjoys a busy career as a pianist and performance coach. He has partnered numerous leading contemporary singers and musicians and future engagements include recitals with Susan Bickley and Claire Booth featuring premieres of new works by Jonathan Dove and Augusta Read Thomas.

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January 2018

Matthews-Owen has long been noted as a sensitive collaborator in his more usual role as an accompanist. But he also holds dear working with composers and, for the first time on disc, he steps out solo to present music by three rightly held in high regard…The title describes colours shimmering from the moon – as they do, evocatively, from the piano thanks to Matthews-Owen’s unshowy finesse.

August 2018

Modétudes is beautifully constructed...Enchanting as it and Nocturne (2008) are, both are set in the shade by Halo (1999), Tabakova’s entrancing depiction of a lunar halo seen one summer’s night. Matthews-Owen catches its delicacy and inner steel superbly and his playing throughout is a marvel, as is Nimbus’s recording, though here and there the piano tone is a little wayward.

17th March 2018

Hannah Kendall’s On the Chequer’d Field Array’d is an entertaining attempt to describe the three stages of a chess game in musical form. Kendall’s slow, probing opening leads to a dense middle section and exhausted coda which suggests that the defeated party has taken it pretty badly. And there’s a set of Six Preludes by Joseph Phibbs, improvisatory, unfussy marvels of economy. No. 4, a gentle processional of bell sounds and elegant melody, is irresistible. Especially as played here by dedicatee Andrew Matthews-Owen, another persuasive advocate for new keyboard music.

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