For SSAATTBB, dedicated to the Sibelius Academy Vocal Ensemble. 'Now welcome, somer' has been performed by The Carice Singers and Ex Cathedra.

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About the text

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'Now welcome, somer' is a song which appears towards the end of Geoffrey Chaucer's Parliament of Fowles. The poem has been described as a 'dream-vision' in which the narrator falls asleep during the prologue and dreams about the goddess Nature who plays match-maker to a whole host of birds. The birds who are not sucessfully matched are invited to try again next year, and love remains a mystery to the slumberous narrator.

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