Matthew Taylor

Symphony no.1 Sinfonia Brevis' op.2 (1985)
Horn Concerto op.23 (1999 revised 2004)
Symphony no.3 op.33 (2003-05)

Richard Watkins (horn)
Royal Ballet Sinfonia
Matthew Taylor (conductor)

Recorded in St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
27-28 April 2006

"Matthew Taylor is one of Britain's most interesting younger composers and conductors. His first symphony sprang from close studies of Haydn's Sturm and Drang series, and he adopts an identical scoring of two oboes, two horns and strings for this colourful single-movement work. Symphony no.3 is altogether more monumental, dominated by ideas of energy and acceleration. It is played here with accompllished ease by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia under Taylor, with jaunty horn concerto offered as a bittersweet lolipop."
Stephen Pritchard, The Guardian newspaper, 31 December 2006

CDLX 7178