The candlelit interior of Drewsteignton Church creates a magical setting for vocal music exploring love poetry from The Song of Songs.
Holy Trinity Church, Drewsteignton, Devon, EX6 6QN
21:00 - 22:15
£20, £8, free
Organiser: Whiddon Autumn Festival / hello@whiddonautumnfestival.co.uk
https://www.whiddonautumnfestival.co.uk/events/the-song-of-songs
Corvus Consort's varying combinations of a cappella voices will move around the atmospheric candlelit church, creating a shifting tapestry of vocal sound ranging from centuries-old music by Antoine Brumel and Raffaella Aleotti through to recent decades with Howard Skempton, Gabriel Jackson and Ola Gjeilo. Towards the end of the programme, the masterful Renaissance polyphony of Tomás Luis de Victoria sits side by side with contemporary music by Jonathan Dove — Dove's setting of the text Vadam et circuibo civitatem inspired directly by Victoria's interpretation composed more than 400 years before. Members of Corvus Consort will be joined by the Festival String Quartet for David Lang's minimalist masterpiece Just (after Song of Songs), whose text is constructed from a list of "everything personal or owned that is attributed to the man and to the woman" in the Song.