4 Day Music Challenge - Theme is Sleep/Sleeping

[imastawka]

4-Day Music Challenge - Theme is Sleep/Sleeping.

(We all want more, right?)

The poster of the song which has the most ‘helpfuls’ at the end of the challenge wins the round.

The winner then chooses the next theme, hosts it and declares the winner at the end of the challenge.

In the event of a tie, the OP will declare the winner.

The challenge ends Tuesday 21st  February in the afternoon.

Have fun.

[imastawka]

Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (Official Video) - YouTube

[twyngwyn]

Pentatonix - Can't Sleep Love - YouTube

[imastawka]

Bon Jovi - I'll Sleep When I'm Dead - YouTube

[twyngwyn]

Petula Clark ~ Don't Sleep in The Subway (1967) - YouTube

[sandypebbles]

The Beatles - Good Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp_djIuQ2Cw 

[countessalmirena]

“Sleep” by Ivor Gurney - sung by Ian Bostridge

https://youtu.be/UwMz0nAYVmg

Most beautiful and descriptive performance of this ravishing song… Bostridge sings this in long seamless strands of sound. I love, love, love the song and the poem (written 1607 by John Fletcher).

Gurney is thought to have suffered from bipolar disorder, and this was probably not helped by the mustard gas attack he suffered in WWI. Nevertheless - a genius.

[countessalmirena]

“Close thine eyes and sleep secure” - Purcell, perf. Les Arts Florissants

https://youtu.be/dOzqyeyLuyY

[countessalmirena]

“Evening Hymn” - Purcell, perf. Helen Charlston (mezzo) and Toby Carr (lute)

https://youtu.be/Nui2YWB311o

This is beyond perfection.

[countessalmirena]

“ O sleep, why dost thou leave me?” (from Handel’s Semele) - sung by Louise Adler

https://youtu.be/kJr5Uvi7fM4

Beautifully staged and sung

[countessalmirena]

“ Nessus dorma” (None shall sleep) - from Puccini’s Turandot, sung by Jonas Kaufmann

https://youtu.be/-SpKFkjlO8Y