Richard Rodney Bennett: Songs Before Sleep Composer_Black; James Widowed Mother Teresa Cahill soprano

Widowed Mother     Teresa Cahill soprano

and featuring his own works Freighttrain Bruise and Kemp's Morris

'At times it felt a bit like attending a concert organised by the Clangers

Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte and madrigals by Monteverdi

Richard Rodney Bennett: Songs Before Sleep Composer_Black; James Widowed Mother Teresa Cahill sopranoThis new recording spans five decades of Bennett's song writing. It couples some of his most accessible and lyrical pieces including the melodic Songs Before Sleep, performed by Roderick Williams and the 1920s dance rhythms of A History of the Th Dansant with the dramatic and rarely performed Tom O'Bedlam's Song for tenor and cello, written for Peter Pears. The disc is completed with the enchanting A Garland for Marjory Fleming, setting the poems of