Colin Matthews No Man’s Land
Price
£12.99
Released On
6th Oct 2014
Product Code
CD HLL 7538
Composer
Colin Matthews
Conductor
Nicolas Collon; Richard Wilberforce
Soloists/Artists
Roderick Williams, Baritone
Richard Wilberforce, Director
Ian Bostridge, Tenor
Hallé Choir
Hallé Youth Choir
COLIN MATTHEWS (b. 1946)
NO MAN’S LAND
Aftertones
Crossing the Alps
No Man’s Land
RECORDED AT HALLÉ ST PETER’S, ANCOATS, MANCHESTER ON 5-9 JUNE 2014
This recording was made possible by funding from The Boltini Trust.
‘No Man’s Land presents the “airs and ditties” of two ghosts hanging on barbed wire – shades of Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting” – and is brought vividly to life by tenor Ian Bostridge and baritone Roderick Williams, supported by evocative backing from the Hallé Orchestra under Nicholas Collon. Aftertones, a choral work, is rather solid by comparison.’
Financial Times, 4/5
