Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 4: Dame Sarah Connolly & Joseph Middleton

6 Aug 2018, Cadogan Hall

13:00 Mon 6 Aug 2018 Next Event

Proms 2018 Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 4

13:00 Mon 6 Aug 2018 Cadogan Hall

Lullabies, dreams and sleep are themes that drift through this night-inspired concert of English song. Dame Sarah Connolly makes her Proms recital debut with music by Vaughan Williams and Howells as well as a world premiere by Benjamin Britten.

Programme

- - Charles Villiers Stanford
  - A Soft Day(2 mins)
- - Hubert Parry
  - Weep you no more, sad fountains(3 mins)
- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - The House of Life 鈥� 'Love-Sight'(4 mins)
- - Ivor Gurney
  - Thou didst delight my eyes(2 mins)
- - Sir Arthur Somervell
  - A Shropshire Lad 鈥撀�'Into my heart an air that kills'(2 mins)
- - Frank Bridge
  - Come to me in my dreams(4 mins)
- - Herbert Howells
  - Goddess of Night(2 mins)
- - Frank Bridge
  - Journey's End(4 mins)
- - Benjamin Britten
  - A Sweet Lullaby(5 mins)world premiere
  - Somnus(2 mins)world premiere
- - Gustav Holst
  - Journey's End(4 mins)
- - Benjamin Britten
  - A Charm of Lullabies(11 mins)
- - Mark-Anthony Turnage
  - Farewell(2 mins)world premiere
- - Lisa Illean
  - Sleeplessness ... Sails(6 mins)麻豆社 commission: world premiere

Performers

Dame Sarah Connolly
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Joseph Middleton
piano
piano

Composers

About This Event

Lullabies and dreams, sleep and insomnia are themes that drift through this night-inspired recital of English song.

British mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly makes her Proms recital debut in a programme that combines familiar favourites 鈥� Britten鈥檚 cycle A Charm of Lullabies and songs by Vaughan Williams and Howells 鈥� with world premieres by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Lisa Illean, as well as of two songs Britten initially intended for A Charm of Lullabies.

Hubert Parry鈥檚鈥榃eep you no more鈥� marks the centenary of his death and all the composers studied or taught at the Royal College of Music.

There will be no interval

Image: Dame Sarah Connolly 漏 Jan Capinski