Ralph Vaughan Williams:
Love-sight

Ivor Gurney:
All night under the moon
The fields are full
Thou didst delight my eyes

Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry:
Weep you no more, sad fountains

Sir Arthur Somervell:
Into my heart an air that kills

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford:
A soft day

Herbert Howells:
Goddess of Night

E.J. Moeran:
Twilight

Gustav Holst:
Journey’s End

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs:
Sailing Homeward

Benjamin Britten:
A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41 - A Sweet Lullaby (premiere), Somnus, the humble god (premiere)

Sir Michael Tippett:
Songs for Ariel

Thomas Frederick Dunhill:
The Cloths of Heaven

John Ireland:
Earth’s Call
The Three Ravens

Frank Bridge:
Journey’s End
Come to me in my dreams
Where she lies asleep

Mark-Anthony Turnage:
Farewell (premiere)

Rebecca Clarke:
The Cloths of Heaven

Muriel Herbert:
The Lost Nightingale

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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Recording: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk; 7 April 2018 (The Lost Nightingale, A Sweet Lullaby, Somnus, the humble god) & 22, 23, and 25 September 2017 (other works). Played on Steinway Model D (592 087) concert grand piano.