7pm
Polyphony & City of London Sinfonia - London
Royal Albert Hall, London
BBC Proms - BBC Radio 3
Reviews
The Evening Standard2011It was Richard Hickox who, with a characteristically ebullient phone call in 2008, just three days before his untimely death, commissioned Colin Matthews's latest piece from him. The work, No Man's Land, was written in his memory…Read the review 
The Financial Times2011The Prom the night before brought another major premiere (though not a BBC commission). This was Colin Matthews’s No Man’s Land, set to a text by Christopher Reid, in which we encounter two dead soldiers in the trenches of the…Read the review 
The Guardian2011Founded by the late Richard Hickox, the City of London Sinfonia reaches its 40th anniversary this year. One of the celebratory projects initiated by Hickox, who died suddenly in 2008, was a new work by Colin Matthews. In the…Read the review 
The New Statesman2011Musical memorials take many forms, as Sunday night's Prom elegantly demonstrated. A concert dedicated to Richard Hickox, whose sudden death in 2008 robbed English music of one of its most persuasive champions, the evening…Read the review 
The Observer2011Another new cantata with two singers, a tenor (Ian Bostridge) and a baritone (Roderick Williams), ventured towards similar territory but in an entirely contrasting manner. Commissioned by the late Richard Hickox, Colin Matthews's…Read the review 
The Telegraph2011Many years ago, in what might be seen as an extreme form of “authenticity”, I sang in a performance of Mozart’s Requiem that purported to include only the music that Mozart himself wrote. It was a strange evening, and obviously a…Read the review