'VOICES OF SCOTLAND'

CHORAL CONCERT BY CAPELLA NOVA

FRIDAY 4 JULY 8PM ST GILES' CATHEDRAL

To mark the 80th birthday of composer Ronald Stevenson and to close the 12th  International Triennial Conference on Mediaeval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature.

Tickets £10 (concession £7) Queen's Hall Box Office 0131 668 2019

Programme

Haunting plainsong chants for St Columba (from Inchcolm Abbey),  and for St Kentigern of Glasgow, will frame and link the following works

Elegy for Colum Cille (Rebecca Rowe, 2000)

setting Brian Johnstone's verse paraphrase of Dallan Forgaill's poem of c.597 lamenting the death of St Columba of Iona

'In convertendo' (Ps.126)  a 5 (Patrick Douglas, prebendary of St Giles, c.1550)

'Descendi in hortum meum' a 4 (Lincluden Collegiate Kirk c.1550)

setting words from the Song of Songs

'Warldis Vanitie: ane merroure for Marie Stuart' (Gabriel Jackson, 2001)
setting poems by Sir Richard Maitland, Lord Darnley, Robert Sempill, Mary Queen of Scots, and from the Gude and Godlie Ballatis

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'Nobilis, humilis'-  hymn to St Magnus of Orkney (c.1150)

'Si quis diliget me' a 4 ( David Peebles, 1530) setting words from St John's Gospel

'Insanientis gens sapientiae' a 4  (Statius Olthoff, 1585)

a setting of Ps.19 in the poetic paraphrase by George Buchanan (1506-1582)

‘Vir perfecte' (hymn to St Andrew from the St Andrews Music Book, c.1200)

'Da tuae regi Deus aequitatis' (Olthoff )

a setting of Buchanan's paraphrase of Ps.72

'Ex te lux oritur dulcis Scotia'

The Wedding Hymn of Margaret of Scotland and Erik of Norway, 1281

'A Mediaeval Scots Triptych' (Ronald Stevenson, 1965)

Qwhen Alyssander oure kynge -  Wallace's Lament for the Grahame - Fredom