Come To Me In My Dreams

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.

Bridge:
 Come to Me in my Dreams
 Journey's end

Britten:
 A Charm of Lullabies for mezzo-soprano and pianoforte, Op. 41

Clarke, Rebecca:
 The Cloths of Heaven

Gibbs, C A:
 Sailing Homeward

Gurney:
 The Fields are Full

Herbert, M:
 The lost nightingale

Howells:
 Goddess of night

Ireland:
 Earth’s Call
 The three ravens

Somervell:
 A Shropshire Lad

Tippett:
 Songs for Ariel

"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 June 2018