The sweet surrender of sleep

Pippa Dames Longworth – mezzo soprano
Andrew Smith – piano

GF Handel – Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me

Giacomo Puccini – E l’uccellino
Reynaldo Hahn – L’heure exquise
Johannes Brahms – Wiegenlied

Benjamin Britten – A Charm of Lullabies

Stephen Sondheim – Take me to the world
Leonard Bernstein – Some other time
William Bolcom – Can’t sleep

Antonin Dvořák – Dobrú noc, má mila

Benjamin Britten’s fabulous ‘Charm of Lullabies’ is the centre piece of this short, late evening recital, which will also include melodies, both beautiful and much loved, to lull you into the gentle night.