Richard Rodney Bennett: Songs Before Sleep Composer_Black; James 'This performance is certainly a

'This performance is certainly a success — as is NMC’s presentation' Gramophone

Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte and madrigals by Monteverdi

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

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

Richard Rodney Bennett: Songs Before Sleep Composer_Black; James 'This performance is certainly aThis 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