A Good-Night for mixed chorus a cappella Richard Rodney Bennett

score (piano for rehearsal only)

A Good-Night offers a final secure resting place: sleep. Richard Rodney Bennett sets prose by the seventeenth-century writer Francis Quarles with remarkable warmth, allowing the words to shine by using simple melodic and harmonic gestures. There is a sense of closure as the music returns to the opening material, newly comforting in its familiarity.