Angus Smith
Mark Dobell
Donald Greig
Robert Harre-Jones

"Simultaneously ravishing and reverential."

Discussions with the Orlando consort about the East Neuk Festival started because I knew that they are among the top performers of the music that has survived in the so called St Andrews Manuscripts. From there it all flowered magnificently so now we can offer a late night performance of that fabulous repertoire alongside new works by Giles Swayne and Tarik O' Regan; an atmospheric and moving sequence of works for voices and strings with the SCO featuring Bach and Pärt; and by way of grand and whacky finale - a collaboration with Huun Huur Tu. It is hard to think of two male voice quartets that could be more utterly different, and yet...

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Sheila Chandra first found fame as an actress - in Grange Hill - but I heard her first performing an astonishing piece of mouth-music inspired by tabla playing. That was 15 years ago, and she has continued to follow her own path musically, exploring aspects of Asian and European vocal traditions en route. Her fascination with drones has brought her close to the piping traditions of Scotland, and she had a great success with her recording of McCrimmond's Lament. Her performance at East Neuk Festival contributes to a mini-strand of contrasting vocal traditions - the others being English (The Orlando Consort and Tuvan (Huun Huur Tu). They are programmed to complement and contrast with each other.

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