Robert Matthew-Walker
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Robert Matthew-Walker is an English writer, editor, marketer, producer, broadcaster and composer, mainly involved in classical music.

Robert Matthew-Walker was born in London in 1939 and studied at Goldsmith's College, University of London, the London College of Music and the London College of Printing (now University of the Arts, London). After leaving the Army in 1962, following service at the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (JARIC)
JARIC
JARIC - The National Imagery Exploitation Centre, part of the Intelligence Collection Group within United Kingdom Defence Intelligence, is an imagery analysis and intelligence centre based at RAF Brampton near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, and historically known as MI4, by which name it is still...

, the War Office and in North Africa, he studied composition privately with the French composer Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...

 in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 in 1962-63.

He was employed in the City as Company Secretary of Thom & Cook Ltd and founded the Tunnel Club rock venue in Greenwich in 1968. He joined CBS Records in 1970; three months later he was appointed head of their classical department in London. In 1974 he became Director of Marketing for CBS, succeeding Clive Selwood. During his time there 14 of the company's singles were in the Top 50 and 7 of CBS's albums in the Top 20 in the same week. He was later Director of Masterworks Marketing, Europe, for CBS in Paris.

In 1975 he joined RCA Records in London as Head of the Classical Department, where he was responsible for launching James Galway
James Galway
- External links : IMGArtists.com 15 September 2008. AllAboutJazz.com 5 August 2008.*...

's career, and at one point, the company had three full-price classical albums in the Top 50 pop album charts at the same time.

He founded several specialist classical labels, including Phoenix Records, Trax Records and AVM Classics - each of which has had at some point the number 1 best-selling classical album. Robert Matthew-Walker has produced over 130 albums, and won the Grand Prix du Disque of the Academie Charles Cros in 1980 for his recording of Brian Ferneyhough
Brian Ferneyhough
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. His music is characterized by the extensive use of complex rhythmic tuplet notation which features in all his works...

's Sonatas for String Quartet by the Berne String Quartet (the first recording of any of Ferneyhough’s works), amongst several other recording awards for his work as a producer. He compiled the first two series of '100 Greatest Classics' for Filmtrax, and for Stylus 'The Pavarotti Collection' (reissued by Decca as 'The Essential Pavarotti') which sold over 600,000 copies and reached no. 8 in the pop album charts. He also appeared with the disco rapper Adamski on a dance single, ‘Kraktali Daze’.

Robert Matthew-Walker was for many years a member of the Critics' Circle. From 1984-88 he edited the magazine Music and Musicians, and between 1996 and 2008 the UK Grieg Society's journal The Grieg Companion (Vols 1-12). In April 2009 he became editor of Musical Opinion
Musical Opinion
Musical Opinion, often abbreviated to MO, is a European classical music journal edited and produced in the UK. It is currently among the oldest such journals to be still publishing in the UK, having been continuously in publication since 1877....

and its sister-publication The Organ; he is also a contributor to Classic Record Collector
Classic Record Collector
Classical Recordings Quarterly is a quarterly British magazine devoted to vintage recordings of classical music, across the range of instrumental recordings, chamber music, orchestral, vocal and opera....

. He has broadcast many times and in 1980 wrote and presented an eight-part History of Classical Recording for BBC Radio
BBC Radio
BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. For a history of BBC radio prior to 1927 see British Broadcasting Company...

. He has published sixteen books, not all of them on musical subjects, and which in total have sold half a million copies. He has also been a Fellow of the Atlantic Council of Great Britain.

Compositions


Op. 1 NOEL: Study on an old carol December 1953

Op. 2 VERSICLES AND RESPONSES for Morning Prayer 1953/4

Op. 3 FANFARE: Lancaster Gate 1954

Op. 4 INTRODUCTION AND ALLEGRO FOR STRING ORCHESTRA

Op. 5 STUDY IN SLOW MOTION

Op. 6 THREE PIECES FOR STRINGS from the 'Anna Magdalena Notebook'

Op. 7 SYMPHONIC VARIATIONS FOR ORCHESTRA 1955

Op. 8 CONCERTINO FOR VIOLIN AND WOODWIND QUARTET 1956

Op. 9 SEVEN ASPECTS OF A HUNGARIAN FOLKSONG 1956/7

Op. 10 SYMPHONY no 1 1956

Op. 11 SONATA FOR SOLO TROMBONE 1957

Op. 12 no 1 SONATA ESPAÑOLA for Solo Piano 1957

Op. 13 FANTASIA FOR SOLO VIOLIN 1958

Op. 14 SYMPHONY NO 2 in one movement 1958

Op. 15 RÉCRÉATION CONCERTANTE for Violin and Orchestra 1959

Op. 16 SINFONIETTA LIRICA for Small Orchestra rev 1960

Op. 17 SYMPHONY no 3 in one movement 1959/60

Op. 18 KYRIE for Double Chorus and Large Orchestra 1962

Op. 19 SYMPHONY no 4 in one movement 1962

Op. 20 RUNNYMEDE FANFARE:

Op. 21 DAYS TO REMEMBER: THREE PIECES FOR ROCK BAND 1966

Op. 22 SYMPHONY no 5 in one movement 1968

Op. 23 SYMPHONY no 6 in one movement 1968

Op. 24 PIANO SONATA no 1 in one movement 1976

Op. 25 SONATA FOR STRING ORCHESTRA 1976

Op. 26 PIANO SONATA no 2 1977

Op. 27 TRIO FOR VIOLIN, CELLO AND PIANO 1977

Op. 28 'A DISTANT SUMMER' - RHAPSODY FOR ORCHESTRA

Op. 29 SONATA FOR FOUR TUBAS 1977

Op. 30 STRING QUARTET [no 1] in B flat minor 1979

Op. 31 SINFONIA SOLEMNIS for Six Percussion Players 1980

Op. 32 CONCERTO FOR HORN AND STRING ORCHESTRA 1980

Op. 33 SONATA FOR CELLO AND PIANO 1980

Op. 34 FANTASY-SONATA: HAMLET (Piano Sonata no 3) 1980

Op. 35 RACHMANINOFF: RUSSIAN RHAPSODY (1890) 1979

Op. 36 MEDITATION ON THE DEATH OF ELVIS PRESLEY 1980

Op. 37 ORPHEUS DESCENDING - Symphonic Prelude for Orchestra

Op. 38 BLOW, BLOW THOU WINTER WIND for Unaccompanied

Op. 39 VARIATIONS ON A 15th-CENTURY ENGLISH CAROL 1980

Op. 40 MUSIC TO HEAR: Five Songs for high voice and piano 1980

Op. 41 DANZA ALLA TOCCATA: Concert Piece for Solo Oboe. 1981

Op. 42 CLARINET QUARTET 1981

Op. 43 FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN: THE FOUR LONDON TRIOS 1981

Op. 44 THE DEPARTURE OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA 1981

Op. 45 SONATA FOR SOLO CELLO 1981

Op. 46 FANTASIA DELLA SINFONIA for eleven-part string

Op. 47 IN THE PARK: Suite for Orchestra in five movements orch 1980

Op. 48 MOTET [No 1] FOR SOPRANO AND ORGAN 1982

Op. 49 PIANO SONATA no 4 in one movement 'Sonata Breve'

Op. 50 LITTLE VARIATIONS 1982

Op. 51 INTRADA AND FUGUE FOR ORGAN 1982

Op. 52 no 1 A CHRISTMAS CAROL SEQUENCE 1982

Op. 52 no 2 NINNA NANNA - Neapolitan Christmas Carol 1982

Op. 53 THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY 1982

Op. 54 SUITE OF DANCES BY KING HENRY VIII 1982

Op. 55 THEATRE OVERTURE 1984

Op. 56 SONATA MAGNA for Organ in one movement 1983

Op. 57 DIVERTIMENTO ON A THEME OF MOZART for piano duet

Op. 58 ZUM GEDACHTNIS - MOTET [No 2] 1986

Op. 59 LE TOMBEAU DE MILHAUD 1986

Op. 60 A SUFFOLK SUITE for piano duet 1986

Op. 61 CHRIST ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS 1988

Op. 62 THREE TRANSCRIPTIONS FOR PIANO TRIO 1988

Op. 63 TWO TRANSCRIPTIONS FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA 1989

Op. 64 THREE PUCCINI TRANSCRIPTIONS 1988

Op. 65 HAYDN TRANSCRIPTIONS FOR STRING ORCHESTRA 1987

Op. 66 THREE ASPECTS OF A SOLEMN FANFARE 1976

Op. 67 no 1 GREENSLEEVES arranged for string orchestra 1989

Op. 67 no 2 MAHLER: 'EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK' Symphony no 7

Op. 68 AUTUMN MUSIC FOR WIND TRIO 1989

Op. 69 TWO RUSSIAN TRANSCRIPTIONS FOR ORCHESTRA 1989

Op. 70 EPICEDIUM for four double-basses 1989

Op. 71 RAPSODIA-CONCERTANTE

Op. 72 SALVO - flourish for brass and percussion 1989

Op. 73 SONATA FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO 1989

Op. 74 SONATA DELL'ESTATE (QUASI UNA FANTASIA) 1989

Op. 74b DUE PEZZI

Op. 75 IN PRAISE OF SPRING 1989

Op. 76 TWO MEDIEVAL MINIATURES FOR BRASS QUINTET 1989

Op. 77 TERNION - Three pieces for brass quartet 1989

Op. 78 LITANY FOR STRING ORCHESTRA 1989

Op. 79 NOCTUARY FOR ORCHESTRA 1989

Op. 80 FANFARE AND RECONNAISSANCE 1989

Op. 81 SOLITUDE for Flute and Piano 1989

Op. 82 CONCERTANTE FOR TROMBONE AND STRING ORCHESTRA

Op. 83 BROWN STUDY 1989

Op. 84 FOUR STUDIES FOR PIANO 1989

Op. 85 SWEET PSALMIST OF ISRAEL [Motet no 3]

Op. 86 FANTASIA FOR HARPSICHORD 1989

Op. 87 CELLO CONCERTO [no 1] 1989

Op. 88 CREED 1989

Op. 89 PSALM 150 1989

Op. 90 MUSIC FOR STRINGS 1989

Op. 91 TWO MOZART TRANSCRIPTIONS

Op. 92 FLUTE QUARTET 1989

Op. 93 DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH - A CHILDREN'S SUITE 1989

Op. 94 no 1: DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH - INTERMEZZO 1989

Op. 94 no 2: 'MARTIN JONES - HIS TOYE' 1989

Op. 95 BATTLEDORE 1989

Op. 96 VIDERUNT OMNES - PEROTINUS MAGNUS (12th Century)

Op. 97 SOFIA IMPRESSIONS 1989

Op. 98 PARTITA FOR BRASS

Op. 99 THREE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH DANCES 1989

Op. 100 BIRTHDAY FANFARE 1989

Op. 101 TWO MOZART WEDDING PIECES

Op. 102 TCHAIKOVSKY: LOVE DUET 'ROMEO & JULIET'

Op. 103 TCHAIKOVSKY: ANDANTE FUNEBRE

Op. 104 2 BATALLION - March for Brass Band 1976

Op. 105 VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF HANDEL 1977

Op. 106 MUSICA MALINCONIA 1989

Op. 107 SONATA DI CHIESA 1989

Op. 108 TWO FANFARES

Op. 109 EIGHT CHANTS: three and four voices (unaccompanied)

Op. 110 TRIO FOR TWO OBOES AND COR ANGLAIS 1989

Op. 111 MONODY for Solo Horn 1989

Op. 112 AMERICAN FOLK-SONGS for Small Orchestra 1989

Op. 113 MUSIC FOR TWO TRUMPETS AND STRING ORCHESTRA

Op. 114 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM' - CONCERTO FOR FLUTE

Op. 115 CONCERTO FOR OBOE AND STRING ORCHESTRA 1989

Op. 116 NEW YEAR'S EVE 1990

Op. 117 THE LORD'S PRAYER [Pater Noster] 1990

Op. 118 ARIOSI FOR STRING ORCHESTRA 1990

Op. 119 THE HOOSIER SCHOOLBOY - An American Overture 1990

Op. 120 EDMUND RUBBRA: A LITTLE SUITE FOR STRINGS 1990

Op. 121 EDVARD GRIEG: ONCE UPON A TIME
Op. 71 no 1 1990

Op. 122 no 1 EDMUND RUBBRA: SYMPHONIC PRELUDE
Op. 164a

Op. 123 ALUN HODDINOTT: BELLS OF PARADISE

Op. 124 ALUN HODDINOTT: WELSH AIRS AND DANCES

Op. 125 CANTATA RURALE 1991

Op. 126 THREE PIECES for Cello and Piano 1995

Op. 127 ANNA MAGDALENA SUITE [No 2]

Op. 128 SUITE FRANÇAISE for Oboe and Bassoon 1995

Op. 129 TWO ORCHESTRAL PRELUDES AFTER J.S.BACH:-

Op. 130 RACHMANINOFF: ALEKO'S CAVATINA

Op. 131 PADERBORN PRAELUDIUM for Symphonic Brass Ensemble

Op. 132 SIX EPIGRAMS FOR ORGAN 1995

Op. 133 SINFONIA FOR ORCHESTRA: THE VIKINGS AT

Op. 134 PRELUDE AND TOCCATA for Solo Piano

Op. 135 ADORAMUS TE, CHRISTE

Op. 136 PROLEGOMENON for Solo Piano

Op. 137 STRING QUARTET No 2

Op. 138 STRING QUARTET No 3

Op. 139 SIX SONGS BY EDVARD GRIEG

Op. 140 MUSIC FOR PIANO AND PERCUSSION

Op. 141 MASONIC MUSIC FOR ORGAN

Op. 142 CHAPTER MUSIC FOR ORGAN

Op. 143 TWO TRANSCRIPTIONS FOR STRING ORCHESTRA 1997
(i) Gabriel Fauré: Pavane
Op. 50
(ii) Maurice Jarre: Theme from 'Dr Zhivago'

Op. 144 CELLO CONCERTO no 2

Op. 145 STRING QUARTET no 4

Op. 146 FOUR EARLY PIECES

Op. 147 SERENATA CONCERTANTE for six solo violins and orchestra 2006

Op. 148 FANTASIA MELANCOLICA (The Blue Violin) for solo violin 2010
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