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Slumber Songs (3CN, mvt I)
video: Slumber Songs (3CN, mvt I)

Slumber Songs (3 Canadian Nocturnes, movement I) text: John McCrae music: Nathaniel Barnes singer: Matthew Curtis I Sleep, little eyes That brim with childish tears amid thy play, Be comforted! No grief of night can weigh Against the joys that...  more

David Rain: "A Hymn to Biodiversity" (sung by Matthew Curtis)
video: David Rain: "A Hymn to Biodiversity" (sung by Matthew Curtis)

Dedicated to Awegechew Teshome, Melaku Worede and John Martin -- my three biodiversity mentors -- who introduced me to the "radical" idea that farmers, seed-saving farmers, have been humanity's ingenious plant breeders and nurturers of biodiversity from t...  more

David Rain: Victor Hugo's "La coccinelle" (sung by Matthew Curtis)
video: David Rain: Victor Hugo's "La coccinelle" (sung by Matthew Curtis)

An SATB arrangement of Victor Hugo's remarkable poem "La coccinelle" -- the narrator looks back on a moment in time when, as a teenager, he was preparing to kiss a girl. Unfortunately, a ladybug lands on her neck, however, which distracts him. He then rem...  more

David Rain: "Rex Pacificus" (sung by Matthew Curtis)
video: David Rain: "Rex Pacificus" (sung by Matthew Curtis)

Dedicated to my dear cousins Gigi and Raven. Since first singing the medieval song "All and Some" in the mid 1990s, I fell in love with the Middle English and Latin lyrics, and one day I got inspired to create my own setting of this poetic gem. NB: ...  more

"There Will Come Soft Rain"
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"There Will Come Soft Rain" by Jonathan Adams for SSAATTBB Chorus. Performed by Matthew Curtis.

With the Night (3CN, mvt. II)
video: With the Night (3CN, mvt. II)

With the Night (3 Canadian Nocturnes, movement II) text: Archibald Lampman music: Nathaniel Barnes singer: Matthew Curtis O doubts, dull passions, and base fears, That harassed and oppressed the day, Ye poor remorses and vain tears, That shook ...  more

David Rain: "Da pacem Domine" (sung by Matthew Curtis)
video: David Rain: "Da pacem Domine" (sung by Matthew Curtis)

"Da pacem Domine" is dedicated to two of my dear relatives named James. I felt the inspiration to start this piece in the weeks leading up to the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, in which my dear grandfather Jimmy Rain (1895-1974) had serv...  more

Scott Villard – Nocturnes (1993, 2009)
video: Scott Villard – Nocturnes (1993, 2009)

Voices: ChoralTracks https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Nocturnes_(Scott_Villard) #ChoralTracks #MatthewCurtis #AlexandraBurch

David Rain: "Good King Wenceslas" (sung by Matthew Curtis)
video: David Rain: "Good King Wenceslas" (sung by Matthew Curtis)

This brand new version of Good King Wenceslas is dedicated to my uncle Duncan Shaw of Vancouver. His "retirement project" - developing his own theory of gravity - has been a huge inspiration in my own compositional journey late in life. Some background...  more

O GLORIOSA DOMINA by Ivo Antognini
video: O GLORIOSA DOMINA by Ivo Antognini

O GLORIOSA DOMINA by Ivo Antognini Matthew Curtis sings all the voices O GLORIOSA DOMINA text by Venantius Fortunatus (530-609) O GLORIOSA domina excelsa super sidera, qui te creavit provide, lactas sacrato ubere. Quod Eva tristis abst...  more