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
RECORDED AT HALLÉ ST PETER'S, ANCOATS, MANCHESTER ON 5-9 JUNE 2014.
COLIN MATTHEWS (b. 1946)
1-13. Aftertones
14. Crossing the Alps
15-30. No Man’s Land
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
