Listen
Official access.
Nuit du Songe — original recordings written for piano, prepared piano, church bells, choir, and hybrid instruments. Released May 15, 2026 · Total duration: 48 minutes.
For Your Consideration ✦ GRAMMY Awards® ✦ Best Classical Compendium
Nuit
du Songe
A new album of original compositions and recordings by Sherif Dahroug, featuring L'Ensemble de Montmartre, Nuit du Songe (Night of the Dream) — A constellation of nine contemporary tableaux woven into a single labyrinthine opus exploring a nocturnal state of perception.
“[…] colors and fragrances of flowers […]” — Ron Hart, SPIN Magazine, “Now Hear This,” June 2026 Explore review↗
01 · Object
Original recordings
Nuit du Songe (Night of the Dream) — In the Colors and Fragrances of Flowers — Conceived as a constellation of nine contemporary tableaux woven into a single labyrinthine opus exploring a nocturnal state of perception.
Read
Texts & materials.
Label Copy, EPK, press page, biography, Press & critical excerpts
“Yet despite the richness of its sonic language, Nuit du Songe never collapses into abstraction for its own sake. The album remains deeply evocative, guided by an intuitive poetic coherence that binds its textures into a unified and immersive whole.” — Davide Fasiello, The Nocturnal Architectures of Memory, Modern Classical Music Magazine, 23 May 2026. Explore review↗
02 · Liner Note
Toward an Inner Architecture of Dream.
The album names a state of perception — a nocturnal consciousness held in tension between errance and return, between the known and the unknown. It inhabits the interval preceding realization, where awareness remains suspended, and where memory engenders color as an inner phenomenon of perception.
Nuit du Songe was born from a desire to dedicate a work to the condition of the artist today — to those who continue to create through solitude, distance, or exile, whether of the land or of the heart, and who remain faithful to beauty despite the acceleration and noise of the world. There is, in this devotion to creation, a silent dignity that has always deeply moved me.
From this reflection emerged the image of a solitary figure wandering through an inner nocturnal passage, searching for meaning and the recognition of the self. Within this obscurity appears a feminine presence — a figure of beauty, color, music, and awakening — through whom creation slowly becomes possible again.
The dream gradually revealed itself as the true space of the work: a conscious nocturnal state where memory, fragrance, sensation, and color begin to intermingle. From there emerged Nuit du Songe — In the Colors and Fragrances of Flowers, nine contemporary instrumental tableaux woven into a single labyrinthine opus exploring perception, memory, and inner transformation through sound.
Read full liner note ↗
Songe couleur d’aube
Dream in the Color of Dawn
05:05
Reflets d’un nymphéa
Reflections of a Water Lily
04:36
Étoile en goutte de rosée
Star in a Dewdrop
06:26
Collier aux cloches
Necklace of Bells
05:36
Souffle septentrional
Northern Breath
06:56
Visage de lune
Moon Face
06:54
Paupières du crépuscule
Eyelids of Twilight
04:05
Nuit fauve
Wild Night
03:37
Fleur du soir
Evening Flower
04:46
03 · Full Credits
The hands behind the Album.
A complete credit wall
- Main Artist / ComposerSherif Dahroug
- Performer(s) L'Ensemble de Montmartre: Clara Lysander, Marianne Delcour, Julien Varennes, Théo Renaudin, Raphaël Mondière
- Producer A Lyre de Mercure production under the direction of Carmen Rosetaou
- Recording Engineer Carmen Rosetaou & Iyri Rosetaou
- Mix Engineer Carmen Rosetaou & Iyri Rosetaou
- Mastering Engineer Carmen Rosetaou & Iyri Rosetaou
- Studio / Location Lyre de Mercure Studio, Montmartre, Paris
- ArtworkSherif Dahroug
- LabelLyre de Mercure
- PublisherLyre de Mercure
- Release Date May 15, 2026 · Total duration: 47 minutes and 59 seconds.
- Code UPC DistroKid 825254230658
- With special thanks to Tamas Vesmas (piano), Michel Denis (artistic direction), Sam Dahroug and Bassem Dahroug (technical assistance), and Riham Elgamal (artistic advisor).
04 · Press
Documents, traces, testimonies.
A restrained archive for reviews, features, interviews, essays, and official materials.
“Synesthesia – the gift of seeing sound and hearing color […]”
—Nine States Of The Night In Sherif Dahroug’s Album “Night Of The Dream”
“[…]Dahroug absorbs [his influences] into a singular compositional language where timbre itself becomes structural material. Harmonic colour… gradually engenders [musical form] from within […]”
—The Nocturnal Architectures of Memory
A 30-minute radio interview exploring Nuit du Songe on The Lite Lounge with Dimitri K.
—Featured in the June 28, 2026 episode of Protons, Neutrons, Electrons and Music!
"[…] Nuit du songe works best when it lets silence complete the composition...The album finds its identity not in formal complexity, but in the precision with which it balances density and emptiness... A transversal writing capable of traversing contemporary music, impressionism, and cinematic sensitivity without forcing the connections […]"
—Nuit du songe: la notte impressionista di Sherif Dahroug tra memoria e contemplazione
05 · FYC
For Your Consideration.
A formal FYC panel: factual, dignified, and free of promotional excess.
FieldClassical
CategoryBest Classical Compendium
RecordingNuit du Songe
ArtistSherif Dahroug
ProductionLyre de Mercure
First Round VotingOct. 12 – Oct. 22, 2026
06 · Listening Chamber
Artists’ listening desk.
A discreet chamber for artists and creators to share official FYC materials for private listening and professional correspondence.
During FYC season, submitted works may be left here as part of a private listening archive intended for artistic discovery and respectful correspondence.
No voting request, exchange, endorsement, or promise of support is implied.
Prefer email correspondence ↗