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Matthew Coleridge

A haunting setting of this wonderfully evocative Middle English

text, Corpus Christi Carol was my first published choral

composition, weaving austere Medieval harmonies with

distinctive harmonic fluctuations of warmth and cold.

The gentle, fleeting dissonances provide a wonderfully subtle

counterpoint to the bare intervals.

Recorded by The Queen's Six for BBC Music Magazine and

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for SATB or AATTBB a cappella | anon. Medieval English text

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Coleridge - Corpus Christi Carol

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Music by Matthew Coleridge

www.matthewcoleridge.com | music@matthewcoleridge.com

A work of sublime beauty and quiet intimacy, hailed by Sir Neville Marriner as 'a valuable addition to the 21st century choral repertoire'.

Requiem is a deeply moving work, full of flowing melodies, soaring cello lines and startling choral textures. Duration 30 mins

REQUIEM

...AND WHAT OF MARRIAGE

CRUX FIDELIS

HURON CAROL

CORPUS CHRISTI CAROL

BALULALOW

SATB choir and solo cello, with string or organ (plus optional percussion)

Texts from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet | for SATB a cappella

Introit for Holy Week | for SATB a cappella

Traditional Canadian carol | SATB or SSAA a cappella

Medieval English carol | SATB or AATTBB a cappella

for SATB a cappella

Commissioned by friends Sheila & Mike Furse in 2016, to celebrate 50 years of marriage. Playfully depicting the colourful imagery in Gibran's poignant text, and the singing, dancing and joy that love brings... even after fifty years!

I was inspired on hearing Palestrina's In Monte Oliveti, to write my own motet for Holy Week, and capture the same atmosphere as the Renaissance master. The stark juxtapositions in the text - fruit and foliage against the nails hammered into Christ's hands - leave the music in a constant flux of consonance and dissonance.

Evocative and beautiful, the nativity is retold in the wilds of Canada, as 'chiefs from far' brings gifts of fox and beaver pelt.My setting of this traditional tune depicts the cold majesty of the frozen landscape, and the hard struggle of the miraculous birth.

My first choral composition, a haunting setting of this stunning Middle English text. The gentle, fleeting clusters provide an alluring counterpoint to the cold austerity of the bare, Medieval intervals. Recorded by The Queen's Six for BBC Music Magazine and Resonus Classics.

A gentle lullaby to the Christ-child. The piece has a restless quality - the unresolved cadences and gentle dissonance suggestive of an infant who isn't quite asleep.Recorded by Kantos Chamber Choir (The Silver Stars at Play) on Prima Facie Records.