Composer: Stephen Wilkinson
Performer: Matthew Brook, Stephen Wilkinson Choir
Conductor: Stephen Wilkinson
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deux-Elles
Catalogue: DXL1148
Release: 2012
Size: 255 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Rowing Down the Tide
Some Psalms
02. Some Psalm 67
03. Some Psalm 23
04. Some Psalm 148
05. The Sheep Under the Snow
Three Elegies
06. Short Measures
07. On Such a Day
08. Nocturne
09. The Piper O’ Dundee
Betjeman’s Bells
10. Wantage Bells
11. Uffington
12. Bristol
13. As I Walked Out (Y Deryn Pur)
14. That Time of Year
15. Hiem’s Song
16. The lark in the clear air
17. Dover Beach
Stephen Wilkinson was conductor of the BBC Northern Singers until well into the 1980s (when they became the Britten Singers). They sang widely around Europe, in Australia, Thailand and Hong Kong and made a number of records, some selected as Critics’ Choice in Gramophone. His compositional output is not large but includes works premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival and several works that receive air-time on Radio 3.
Dover Beach presents five short a cappella works interspersed with five arrangements of folk-songs, one each from England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man.