Colin Matthews spent his formative years as Benjamin Britten 's copyist and later as his amanuensis. He went on to forge a career as a composer and has been in constant demand ever since. Today he talks to Donald Macleod about his approach to word setting in Night's Mask and the work written as a sunny counterpart to it and regarded as a turning point in his career - Suns Dance. Variation on Sumer Is Icumen In
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jac Van Steen
Night's Mask Patrizia Kwella (soprano), Nash Ensemble , conductor Lionel Friend Suns Dance London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen
Cortege BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Rumon Gamba