Ballads of a Bogman at the Wigmore Hall, London

Stephen McNeff's masterly settings of poetry inspired by County Kerry with performers who seemed to identify with the material so that tenor Gavan Ring did not so much perform the songs as embody them

Robert Hugill

Fiachra Garvey and Gavan Ring at the Wigmore Hall

Robert Hugil Writes: This was a performance where the performers seemed to really identify with the material so that Ring did not so much perform the songs as embody them. It helped that McNeff's music, for all its fascinating complexity, allowed space for Clifford's poetry and for Ring's admirable projection of the words.

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