The Sunlight On The Garden

The collected songs for voice and piano of aclaimed choral conductor and arranger Stephen Wilkinson. This album includes settings of Marvell's poem The Garden, a joyful expression of horticultural delights that cleverly combines an almost atonal idiom with elements of a Gilbert and Sullivan patter song. The title work The Sunlight on the Garden is a setting of the MacNeice poem of the same name, and evokes darker moods of wartime by the use of a constantly evolving harmonic palette. 'In the field of choral music, Stephen Wilkinson is a genius.' (Yorkshire Post) 'Simply a great choral conductor' (South China Times) 'No praise could overstate the merits of Stephen Wilkinson's direction' (The Guardian)