Songs Before Sleep

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RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Songs Before Sleep
Sophie Daneman (soprano) / Roderick Williams (baritone) / Iain Burnside (piano)

[ NMC / CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 11 November 2010

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"What a treat this is! Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, 74 years young, continues to delight audiences the world over." Gramophone Award finalist 2011 - solo vocal

"Performances are uniformly excellent; this is a beautifully judged and planned disc, an undiluted pleasure." (The Guardian)

"What a treat this is! Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, 74 years young, continues to delight audiences the world over...he also possesses a very special gift for word-setting, if this addictive anthology is anything to go by...Performances throughout are without blemish - and a special word of praise for the supple and intuitive accompaniments by Iain Burnside."
Gramophone Award finalist 2011 - solo vocal

"[Bennett] creates a campy 1920s-ish idiom, well captured by the versatile Iain Burnside...Benjamin Hulett, with Oliver Coates, sings with commendably Pearsian fervour...Susan Bickley adds mezzo bite to Dream-Songs, while Roderick Williams infuses Songs before Sleep with just the right dark warmth." (BBC Music Magazine)

Tracks:

A Garland for Marjory Fleming
Songs before Sleep
A History of the Thé Dansant
Dream-Songs
Tom O'Bedlam's Song
this is the garden
Voyage
A Song at Evening