Come To Me In My Dreams: 120 Years Of Song From The Royal College of Music
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Come To Me In My Dreams: 120 Years Of Song From The Royal College of Music
Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
[ Chandos / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 7 September 2018
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Dame Sarah Connolly's exceptional nocturnally inspired recital spans over 120 years of British song from Stanford to Turnage, and includes world premieres of two songs by Benjamin Britten. Marking Sarah Connolly's Proms recital debut, the centenary of Sir Hubert Parry's death, and British composers in general, who studied or taught at the Royal College of Music, this album is an astonishing collection not to be missed.
"A truly lovely programme, this, as generous as it is absorbing… Connolly is at her characteristically supple, golden-toned and intelligent best throughout, and she enjoys impeccable support from Joseph Middleton. Chandos's sound and presentation are likewise beyond reproach, and it all adds up to a disc that I have not the slightest doubt will give enormous satisfaction for many moons to come." Gramophone Editor's Choice Sept 2018
"Sarah Connolly is to be double congratulated as programme compiler and for her admirably elegant and eloquent singing throughout, the musical accent largely introspective and twilit, her performances illuminated by adroitly judged treatment of texts and music." Classical Ear
"A varied collection that offers more than just vocal bonbons…Connolly and Middleton execute the complex phrasing [of A Charm of Lullabies] with a sense of ensemble for which they are revered" BBC Music
"The recording, from Suffolk's Potton Hall, is especially vivid even by Chandos' standards, with the pianist Joseph Middleton emerging here with equal credit to Dame Sarah. This is a real connoisseur's choice, and I cannot recommend it too highly." Classic FM
Tracks:
Frank Bridge:
Come to Me in my Dreams
Journey's end, H167
Where she lies asleep
Benjamin Britten:
A Charm of Lullabies, op.41
A Sweet Lullaby
Somnus, the humble god
Clarke, Rebecca:
The Cloths of Heaven
Dunhill, Thomas:
The Cloths of Heaven, op.30 no.3
Gibbs, Cecil Armstrong:
Sailing Homeward
Gurney, Ivor
All night under the moon
The Fields are Full
Thou didst delight my eyes
Herbert, Muriel
The lost nightingale
Holst, Gustav:
Songs (12), op.48 'Humbert Wolfe Songs'
No.9 Journey's End
Howells, Herbert:
Goddess of night
Ireland, John
Earth's call
The Three Ravens
Moeran, Ernest John:
Twilight
Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings:
Weep no more sad fountains
Somervell, Arthur:
A Shropshire Lad
No.9 Into my heart an air that kills
Stanford, Charles Villiers:
A soft day, op.140 no.3
Tippett, Michael
Songs for Ariel (3)
Turnage, Mark-Anthony:
Farewell
Vaughan Williams, Ralph:
The House of Life
No.1 Love-Sight
