Dunedin Consort: Scattered Rhymes Choral Tour

Dunedin Consort: Scattered Rhymes Choral Tour

James MacMillan                                               Behold, you are beautiful, my love 
Gavin Bryars                                                        A la dolce ombra
Bianca Maria Furgeri                                 Ego flos campi
Stephanie Martin                                              Rise up, My Love
Tarik O’Regan                                                     Scattered Rhymes
Raffaella Aleotti                                                Surge propera
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina              Duo ubera tua
Adrian Willaert                                                  Lasso ch’i ardo
Jacob Clemens                                                  non Papa Ego flos campi
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina             Surge amica mea
Guillaume Bouzignac                                   Vulnerasti cor meum
Caroline Shaw                                                  New Commission
Tomás Luis de Victoria                                 Vadam et circumibo civitatem 

Nicholas Mulroy                                              director 

The Songs of Songs plunges us into a lush world of ripe fruits, deep waters, scorching heats, and cooling shades. This intense imagery—the Hebrew Bible’s richest and most succulent— drives poetry that is both straightforwardly erotic and tantalisingly allegorical in its exploration of love both human and divine. This heady combination invites a huge range of approaches, from Biana Maria Furgeri’s flowing Ego flos campi for upper voices to Tomás Luis de Victoria’s epic, six-part Vadam et circumibo civitatem. In Scattered Rhymes, Tarik O’Regan sets Petrarch’s own questioning of the boundaries of carnal and spiritual desire, a text further enjoyed by Gavin Bryars’ A la dolce ombra. 

Pre-concert talk with Nicholas Mulroy, 6.30pm 

Included with ticket