Dunedin Consort: Scattered Rhymes Tour Nicholas Mulroy (Director) - Free-£24
The Song 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 Tomřs Luis de Victoria's epic, six-part Vadam et circumibo civitatem. The programme also includes contemporary music by Sir James MacMillan, Tarik O'Regan, Gavin Bryars and Caroline Shaw.