Prom 50: CLS/Layton – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonFounded 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 event, it fell to Stephen Layton – his successor as the orchestra's artistic director – to realise the piece at this Prom.No Man's Land is a memorial to the losses of the first world war, of which Matthews's grandfather was a casualty. It sets a ...

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