Wilkinson, Stephen - Eternal Summer (A Second Book of Songs)

Eternal Summer is Stephen Wilkinson's sequel to Sunlight on the Garden. It features songs written in the composer's eighties and nineties, elegantly set by recorder virtuoso John Turner. As simply put in a review in the Yorkshire Post, 'In the field of choral music, Stephen Wilkinson is a genius'.

Contents (click links to hear performed via YouTube): 

Eternal Summer (Text by Wm Shakespeare)

Winter Snow (Christina Rossetti)

The Gate in the Wall ( Eleanor Farjeon)

Lullaby (W H Auden)

Chapels (y capelau) (Fred Pratt Green)

Renunciation (Alice Meynell)

To a Young Girl (W B Yeats)

O Do Not Love Too Long (W B Yeats)

Maude Gonne Takes Down a Book (W B Yeats)

Politics (W B Yeats)

Nosegay

          To My Dear and Loving Husband (Anne Bradstreet)

          Sonnet: My True Love Hath My Heart (Sir Philip Sydney)

          The Owl & the Pussycat (Edward Lear)

Birdspeak (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

What It Is (Translated by Stuart Hood from the German Poem by Erich Fried)

Kiss (Leigh Hunt)