The Classical Events logo, in black-and-white
Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

The Song of Songs

Part of the Whiddon Autumn Festival 2025

Add to my Calendar 19-09-2025 21:00 19-09-2025 23:00 36 The Song of Songs The candlelit interior of Drewsteignton Church creates a magical setting for vocal music exploring love poetry from 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. The programme will also feature the premiere of a new work composed for Corvus Consort by Jamie Doe, who performs earlier in the evening across the road at The Drewe Arms, under the moniker The Magic Lantern. Holy Trinity Church, Drewsteignton DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Holy Trinity Church
Knowle Lane
Drewsteignton
Devon
EX6 6QN
England

Programme

Howard Skempton – The Song of Songs
Jonathan Dove – Vadam et circuibo civitatem
Tomas Luis de Victoria – Vadam et circuibo
David Lang – Just (after Song of Songs)
Jonathan Dove – My love is mine
Ola Gjeilo – Northern Lights
Gabriel Jackson – I am the Rose of Sharon
Jamie Doe – Set me as a seal
Raffaella Aleotti – Surge, proper amica mea
Howard Skempton – Rise up, my love
Antoine Brumel – Sicut lilium inter spinas

Performers

Freddie Crowley – Conductor

Corvus Consort
Whiddon Autumn Festival String Quartet

Other concerts in this Festival ▼

A Million Nightingales

Trios at Twilight

Across the Atlantic

Finding Freedom

Caledonia

Programme Note

The candlelit interior of Drewsteignton Church creates a magical setting for vocal music exploring love poetry from 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.

The programme will also feature the premiere of a new work composed for Corvus Consort by Jamie Doe, who performs earlier in the evening across the road at The Drewe Arms, under the moniker The Magic Lantern.

The Song of Songs

Get a route map

Your Map