The World Feels Dusty

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
September 12, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • PERFORMER
      Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 12, 2025
    • UPC
      0095115228524
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 20285
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. La fleur des eaux: L'air est plein d'une odeur exquise de lilas

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    2. No. 1. La fleur des eaux: Et mon coeur s'est levé par ce matin d'été

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    3. No. 1. La fleur des eaux: Quel son lamentable et sauvage

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    4. Interlude

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Joseph Middleton

    5. No. 2. La mort de l'amour: Bientôt l'île bleue et joyeuse

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    6. No. 2. La mort de l'amour: Le vent roulait les feuilles mortes

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    7. No. 2. La mort de l'amour: Comme des fronts de morts nos fronts avaient pâli

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    8. No. 2. La mort de l'amour: Le temps des lilas et le temps des roses

      Composer: Ernest Chausson

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    9. No. 1. Rain has fallen

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    10. No. 2. Sleep now

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    11. No. 3. I hear an army

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    12. No. 1. La flûte de Pan

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    13. No. 2. La chevelure

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    14. No. 3. Le tombeau des naïades

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    15. No. 4. The World feels dusty

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    16. No. 10. I've heard an organ talk sometimes

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    17. No. 1. Sleep

      Composer: Errollyn Wallen

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    18. No. 2. Bright Lights

      Composer: Errollyn Wallen

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    19. No. 3. There's a certain Slant of light

      Composer: Errollyn Wallen

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton

    20. No. 4. Night Thoughts

      Composer: Errollyn Wallen

      Performer: Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton


Dame Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton present a richly rewarding programme of art songs from a variety of composers. The recital opens with Chausson's Po�me de l'amour et de la mer, which took almost a decade to compose and shows Wagner's influence on the younger composer. Composed in 1935 on a study trip to Rome, Barber's Three Songs set poems by James Joyce and portray three love affairs. Debussy's Trois Chansons de Bilitis set the erotic poems of Pierre Lou�s, which were all the rage in Paris at the turn of the century. Aaron Copland completed his Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson in 1950, but declared that they should not be seen as a set but as twelve individual works. Connolly here includes 'I've heard an organ talk sometimes' and 'The world feels dusty', the latter giving the album it's title. The programme concludes with the premi�re recording of Errollyn Wallen's Night Thoughts: a cycle of four songs commissioned by Leeds Lieder, and first performed by Dame Sarah and Joseph, the cycle's dedicatees. Setting two of her own poems alongside one by Emily Dickinson and lines from Shakespeare's MacBeth, the cycle took it's inspiration from Howard Hodgkin's painting Night Thoughts.