Claire Booth & Patricia Bardon - Jonathan Dove: All You Who Sleep Tonight - Song Cycles (2014)

Jonathan Dove is one of Britains most resourceful and versatile contemporary composers, whose affinity for vocal setting is especially striking. From the operatic canvas of his acclaimed Flight to his song cycles, his acutely perceptive approach to texts is unmistakable. Out of Winter, written in collaboration with Dove, is the late Sir Robert Tears poetic response to Thomas Hardys Winter Words. Cut My Shadow is a powerful and harrowing setting of three Lorca texts notable for a sense of constant unease and longing for a homeland. All You Who Sleep Tonight, to poems by Vikram Seth, is elegant, moving, and witty whilst Ariel explores Shakespeares elusive character from The Tempest in a rôle for unaccompanied soprano.