The fine English mezzo Dame Sarah Connolly has earned a formidable reputation in early music, though she has fared equally well in music through to the present. This new recital in partnership with the attentive pianist Joseph Middleton has sent them to the stacks within the Royal College of Music, coming up with a unique and well-planned recital on the notion of ‘sleep’, from sunset to lullabies, as well as rest of a more permanent nature, and encompassing two fine setting of Yeats’ brief but oh so touching The Cloths of Heaven. Across 220 years, we are left to savour a series of fine settings of often well-known poetry from the late Tudor period to the Edwardian reveries of AE Housman by composers from Parry to Turnage.