A garden teeming with temptation and desire, grotesque creatures and improbable scenes of surrender: the uninhibited world of Hieronymus Bosch’s 500-year-old triptych “De tuin der lusten”. Baffling his Dutch contemporaries and the casual tourists in Madrid’s Prado in equal measure (not to mention generations of art critics) Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights is ever-enigmatic. Whether it is interpreted as a paradise of indulgence or as a stark warning about moral decay during a time of rapid change, this art exudes dread and seduction in equal measure. 

Trust Luminescence Chamber Singers to turn this surreal feast of the senses into an aural tapestry as pleasurable and perilous as Bosch’s vision. Drawn from the vaults of Renaissance raunch, and daring modern transgressions, Garden of Earthly Delights offers a vocal cornucopia of surprise and surreptitiously cheeky delight.

Program to include music by Hildegard von Bingen, Josquin des Prez, Philippe Verdelot, Gavin Bryars, as well as newly commissioned works by Nicole Murphy and Archie Tulk.

Audiences are advised that some works in this concert contain coarse/explicit language, sexual references and adult themes. This performance may not be suitable for children under 15 years.

1 hour no interval, conducted by Roland Peelman AM

PROGRAMME

CUM PROCESSIT FACTURA/CUM ERUBUERINT Hildegard von Bingen 
LIVING ROOM MUSIC: STORY John Cage
POI CHE VOI ET IO PIÙ VOLTE ABBIAM PROVATO (IV - Second Book of Madrigals) Gavin Bryars
GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS Nicole Murphy [WP]
MISSA HERCULES DUX FERRARIAE: AGNUS DEI I Josquin des Prez
DESSUS LE MARCHE D’ARRAS Orlando di Lassus
VENI IN HORTUM MEUM Philippe Verdelot
XXX SONGS: ANIME Frank Nuyts
ODE TO AN APPLE Archie Tulk [WP]
HOT KNIFE Fiona Apple
MISSA HERCULES DUX FERRARIAE: AGNUS DEI II Josquin des Prez
QUIVI SOSPIRI Luzzasco Luzzaschi
XXX SONGS: DODL Frank Nuyts
EARTHLY DELIGHTS Aurora arr. Dan Walker
WELCOME TO THE INTERNET Bo Burnham arr. Roland Peelman
XXX SONGS: EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK Frank Nuyts
MISSA HERCULES DUX FERRARIAE: AGNUS DEI III Josquin des Prez