Come to Me in My Dreams: 120 years of songs from the RCM

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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 Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Jul 2018
Catalogue No: CHAN10944
Label: Chandos
Length: 77 minutes

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Herbert, M: The lost nightingale

Work length2:15

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 7 April 2018
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Ireland: Earth’s Call

Work length5:03

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Ireland: The three ravens

Work length3:51

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Excerpt, Dunhill: The Wind Among the Reeds, Op. 30

Work length2:12

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

No. 3, The Cloths of Heaven (Arr. for Voice & Piano)

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Howells: Goddess of night

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Bridge: Journey's end

Work length3:48

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

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

Work length12:00

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

No. 1, A Cradle Song

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No. 2, A Highland Balou

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No. 3, Sephestia's Lullaby

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No. 4, A Charm

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No. 5, The Nurse's Song

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Somervell: A Shropshire Lad

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

No. 9, Into My Heart an Air That Kills

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Excerpt, Holst: 12 Humbert Wolfe settings, Op. 48

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

No. 9, Journey's End

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Bridge: Where she lies asleep, H 114

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Bridge: Come to Me in my Dreams

Work length3:34

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Britten: A Sweet Lullaby

Work length4:00

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 7 April 2018
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Britten: Somnus, the Humble God

Work length2:11

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 7 April 2018
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Parry: English Lyrics, Set 4

Work length2:23

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

No. 4, Weep You No More, Sad Fountains

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trad.: A Sheaf of Songs from Leinster, Op. 140

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

No. 3, A Soft Day

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Gibbs, C A: Sailing Homeward

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Moeran: Twilight

Work length2:15

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Gurney: A Third Volume of 10 Songs

Work length3:08

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

No. 8, Thou Didst Delight My Eyes

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Gurney: The Fields are Full

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Gurney: 20 Songs, Vol. 1

Work length3:29

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

No. 5, All Night Under the Moon

Track length3:29

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Clarke, Rebecca: The Cloths of Heaven

Work length2:19

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Tippett: Songs for Ariel

Work length4:45

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

No. 1, Come unto These Yellow Sands

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No. 2, Full Fathom Five

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No. 3, Where the Bee Sucks

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Turnage: Farewell

Work length3:25

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Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: 22, 23 and 25 September 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

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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.

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August 2018

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.

September 2018

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.

This is a wonderful selection, showing how influential the RCM has been in the development of English song in performances from Connolly and Middleton of exemplary commitment and luminosity. If it seems preoccupied with innocence, love and loss, capturing moments of intimacy and sacrifice and often providing relief too, these are elements of all great songs.

July 2018

Far more than just a few songs at twilight, this recital is one of my summer must-haves as much for the repertoire as for the compelling performances: following Muriel Herbert’s sweetly elegiac To a Lost Nightingale, Ireland’s Earth’s Call sees Connolly letting her full-bodied mezzo off the leash, with Middleton despatching the virtuosic piano part with gusto. It’s great to hear a female voice in Tippett’s elusive Songs for Ariel, as well as two songs which Britten discarded from A Charm of Lullabies.

15th July 2018

Connolly proves herself a worthy heir to Janet Baker in the lovely songs of Ireland, Moeran and Ivor Gurney, but this “garland” of 20th-century songs, superbly accompanied by Middleton as her equal partner, embraces “cycles” by the antipoles Britten and Tippett.

classicalsource.com July 2018

Given the disparate fare, there are surprisingly few duds among the twenty-nine selections. Indeed, the sequence is a miracle of planning that has woven a coherent programme out of fragments...Connolly renders [A Charm] with the intensity of a skilled stage actress.

CD Choice August 2018

Singing of mellifluous beauty (with sensitive interpretations of the texts) is the hallmark of this very attractive collection. The disc is also a reminder of Sarah Connolly’s finely honed talent and the often neglected accomplishment of English song over many years.

Classical Ear August 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.

Classic FM June 2018

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.

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