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BBC Proms: 2018: Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 4: Dame Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton

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06/08/2018

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

2018

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Live at the BBC Proms: Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton perform an English song recital

Live at the BBC Proms: mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly and pianist Joseph Middleton perform an English song recital on the theme of lullabies and dreams.

Live at BBC Proms: Dame Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton perform an English song recital on the theme of Lullabies and Dreams

Live from Cadogan Hall, London 
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Stanford: A Soft Day

Parry: Weep you no more, sad fountains

Somervell: A Shropshire Lad - 'Into my heart an air that kills'

Bridge: Come to me in my dreams

Howells: Goddess of Night

Frank Bridge: Journey's End

Britten: A Sweet Lullaby (world premiere)

Britten: Somnus (world premiere)

Holst: Journey's End

Britten: A Charm of Lullabies

Lisa Illean: Sleeplessness ... Sails (BBC commission: world premiere)

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Farewell (world premiere)

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 - Britten's cycle A Charm of Lullabies and songs by Vaughan Williams and Howells - 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's 'Weep you no more' marks the centenary of his death and all the composers studied or taught at the Royal College of Music.

There will be no interval.

BBC Proms: 2018

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 2018 season of the BBC Proms.

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