A programme of sublime contemporary choral music.
As the season changes and we embrace the rebirth of Spring, The Scottish Chamber Choir celebrates the light.
In a programme of sublime contemporary choral music, the idea of light is explored and expounded by four living composers.
In _Lux Aeterna_, Morten Lauridsen breathes new musical life into ancient texts. His crystalline melodic lines take flight in delicious canons and harmonies that comfort, uplift and inspire.
Jonathan Dove’s _Seek Him that Maketh the Seven Stars_ reveals the English composer’s operatic background in a dramatic narrative that feels its way on an almost synaesthetic quest from darkness to ecstatic light.
_O Lux beata Trinitas_ set by Kerry Andrew opens from a delicate tracery of vocal sound to an energetic, exultant climax where individual voices sparkle in a heavenly firework display on endlessly repeated and interwoven settings of the word ‘lumen’ or light.
Adolphus Hailstork’s _Shout for Joy_ is an extraordinary theatrical setting of Psalm 33. The veteran composer is of African American, Native American and European Jewish ancestry and the anthem combines Black Church idioms with a monumental display of choral and organ virtuosity.