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Sunday 21 September 2025, 6:00 pm
Concert 7: Caledonia
Corvus Consort joins together with all WAF’s resident artists for a celebration of Scotland’s beautiful musical heritage, in collaboration with award-winning Scottish tenor Matthew McKinney.
Scottish folksongs will feature prominently, including choral arrangements by Scottish composers James MacMillan and Gemma McGregor. James MacMillan is one of Scotland’s most decorated and renowned composers, and the concert will open with his searingly poignant A Child’s Prayer, composed as a tribute to the victims of the Dunblane massacre in 1996.
The concert will feature the world premiere performance of a new work for choir by Composer-in-Residence Ben Nobuto, written specially for this concert. A sneak preview of Ben’s new work is possible a day before the premiere in WAF’s ‘Open Rehearsal’ event.
James MacMillan (b. 1959)
A Child’s Prayer
James MacMillan (b. 1959)
Scots Song
Trad., arr. Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
I’ll bid my heart be still
Trad., arr. Harry Baker (b. 1997)
Piano improvisation on a Scottish folk song
Gemma McGregor (b. 1965)
O May, thy morn
James Ross (b. 1979)
Landscape to Light
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James Ross (b. 1979)
The Piper of Windy Ha’
Trad., arr. Harry Baker (b. 1997)
Lochnagar
James MacMillan (b. 1959)
The Gallant Weaver
Ben Nobuto (b. 1996)
New commission
Trad., arr. Freddie Crowley (b. 1995)
My love is like a red, red rose
Trad., arr. Freddie Crowley (b. 1995)
Ae fond kiss
Karine Polwart (b. 1970), arr. Baz Chapman & Freddie Crowley
Follow the Heron