Texts read and Music played

1. Summer is Icumen In, sung by the Hilliard Ensemble
2. An English Suite – Pastoral, by Hubert Parry, played by the English String Orchestra, conducted by William Boughton
3. ‘Summer in the City, sung by The Lovin’ Spoonful
4. Poem, Bed in Summer, by Robert Louis Stevenson
5. Sealed with a Kiss, sung by Bryan Hyland
6. All Summer Long, sung by The Beach Boys
7. Poem, Summer from Lyrics of the Hearthside, by Paul Laurence Dunbar
8. The Banks of Green Willow, by George Butterworth, played by the English String Orchestra, conducted by William Boughton
9. Poem, Adelstrop, by Edward Thomas, read by Anton Lesser
10. Summertime, by George Gershwin, sung by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
11. Poem, An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie, by Vachel Lindsay
12. Summertime Blues, sung by Eddie Cochran
13. Poem, Summer, by John Clare
14. The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Any More, sung by The Walker Brothers
15. Sonnet, Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? by William Shakespeare, read by Jan Josef in German translation
16. Sonnet, Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? by William Shakespeare, read by Siobhan Redmond
17. Poem, Summer, from The Four Seasons
18. ‘Summer, from The Four Seasons, by Antonio Vivaldi, played by Salvatore Accardo