For their 11th album on Hyperion, award-winning vocal outfit The Gesualdo Six return to some of the repertoire that they spent their first year performing and touring together some 11 years ago, in 2015, recording this music for the first time.

The programme explores a more secular repertoire than the group's previous albums, moving from Renaissance works that celebrate nature and love to contemporary settings which recontextualise verses by Christina Rossetti and Kathleen Jamie. A number of pieces cast light on childhood, conjuring moments of innocence, and interwoven throughout are re-imaginings of traditional British and Irish folk songs, arranged by musicians continuing a longstanding tradition of developing and reshaping existing material.

As Director Owain Park writes, 'Wishing Tree is … a journey through time, poetry, and song, rooted in tradition yet alive with contemporary expression'.

Tracklisting:

1. This sweet and merry month of May
2. Put out into the deep
3. Bushes and briars
4. The wind's warning
5. The wishing tree:
6. The oak and the ash
7. My bonny lies over the ocean
8. El grillo
9. Summer shower
10. The lark in the clear air
11. Il bianco e dolce cigno
12. The silver swan
13. The blue bird op. 119 Nr. 3
14.  Fantasia on English children's songs  Petites voix
15. La petite fille sage
16. Le chien perdu 
17. En rentrant de l'école
18. Le petit garçon malade
19. Le hérisson
20. My love is like a red, red rose