Colin Matthews: No Man’s Land; Crossing The Alps – Collon

Aftertones (Drei Landschaften nach Edmund Blunden für Bariton, Chor und Orchester)
Dim through cloud vails (Landscape 1: Entrangement)
In the ashen twilight
In the false moonlight
Oaks, once my friends
Swift away the century flies (Landscape 2: Aftermath)
Time has healed the wound, they say
But no, this fiction died
A brown charred trunk that deadly cowered
Interlude
There the puddled lonely lane (Landscape 3: Childhood beliefs)
Stones could talk together then
Trees on hilltops then were palms
Hald in glory, half in fear
Crossing the alps
No man’s land
Introduction (Teil 1)
There are two skeletons
Before divine creation
An old crow
Snug in my dug-out
I’ll tell you something
You’re quite right, sir
Fritz is my friend
Someone takes up his mouth again
I know a village some way away (Teil 2)
I was sharing a smoke
Interlude
In my dream last night
I went to sleep in a bath
They are drunken
So come and join the forces

Halle Choir – Halle Youth Choir – C / Collon, Nicholas

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Length: 1:00:36
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