As COP-26 comes to Glasgow this autumn, we explore music’s relationship with nature and look at how the arts can both reflect and inspire environmental concerns. Under the guest direction of the esteemed Norwegian choral director Grete Pedersen, Dunedin’s a cappella consort perform music by J.S. Bach, James MacMillan, and Jan Sandström, with a new […]
Join us for our St Andrews open rehearsal where Dunedin Consort favourite Nardus Williams rehearses for her most intimate programme yet, drawing together the works of seventeenth-century women that blur the sacred and secular.
Dunedin Consort favourite Nardus Williams returns for her most intimate programme yet, drawing together the works of seventeenth-century women that blur the sacred and secular. These songs burn in equal measure for Jesus and more earthly lovers, seeking by turns forgiveness, release, and vengeance: Barbara Strozzi delights in the prospect of revenge on unfaithful partners while Rosa Giacinta Badalla […]
Join us for our open rehearsal in St Andrews where we explore choral music inspired by The Song of Songs 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.
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 […]
