Wishing Tree: CD

On their eleventh album for Hyperion, The Gesualdo Six explore a more secular repertoire, drawing on music they have performed live since their formation in 2015.

The programme spans Renaissance works celebrating nature and love, alongside contemporary settings of texts by Christina Rossetti and Kathleen Jamie. Themes of childhood and innocence run throughout, interwoven with imaginative reworkings of traditional British and Irish folk songs.

As director Owain Park describes it, Wishing Tree is “a journey through time, poetry and song, rooted in tradition yet alive with contemporary expression.”
The ensemble continues to tour internationally, performing over 150 concerts annually across Europe, the Americas, and Asia, while also commissioning new works and engaging a global digital audience.

Tracklist:
1. Byrd: This Sweet and Merry Month of May – 2:59
2. Bednall: Put Out Into the Deep – 5:32
3. Vaughan Williams: Bushes and Briars – 3:04
4. Willis: The Wind’s Warning – 4:13
5. Talbot: The Wishing Tree – 3:48
6. Anon / Langford: The Oak and the Ash – 3:25
7. Semple / Park: My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean – 2:45
8. Josquin: El Grillo – 2:32
9. Holmes: Summer Shower – 3:25
10. Anon / Whitbourn: The Lark in the Clear Air – 2:56
11. Arcadelt: Il Bianco e Dolce Cigno – 2:25
12. Gibbons: The Silver Swan – 1:37
13. Stanford: The Blue Bird, Op. 119 No. 3 – 3:55
14. Park: Fantasia on English Children’s Songs – 10:34
15. Poulenc: Petites Voix I – 2:07
16. Poulenc: Petites Voix II – 1:23
17. Poulenc: Petites Voix III – 0:39
18. Poulenc: Petites Voix IV – 2:20
19. Poulenc: Petites Voix V – 0:47
20. Anon / Carrington: My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose – 4:10