Forwarded on behalf of Dr Jamie Reid Baxter:

Gavin Douglas, Dunkeld Cathedral - and Robert Carver

On Saturday 21 April, Dunkeld Cathedral will resound to a fullscale
reconstruction of procession and high mass as it might have been sung
there in the time of Gavin Douglas.  Robert Carver's sublime Mass for
Ten Voices "Dum sacrum mysterium" (1506) will be sung by Musick Fyne of
Inverness, directed by the Carver specialist D James Ross. This very
mass, written in honour of St Michael, patron saint not only of
Carver's own Augustinian abbey of Scone, but also of James IV's Chapel
Royal in Stirling Castle, was sung at the coronation of James V, twenty
days after the catastrophe of Flodden in 1513 -  that is, only two
months after Gavin Douglas had completed his "Eneados".    Its ten
voices represent the Nine Orders of Angels joined by the voice of
mankind; mediaeval theology saw mankind as having been created to
replace the lost order of the angels of Lucifer. For that reason,
Carver's "ocean of sound" will be framed in the proper liturgy for St
Michael's Day, some sung in plainsong, others in the setting ("de
Angelis") made by Guillaume Dufay, a composer whom Carver admired.  The
part of the celebrant will be chanted by Jamie Reid-Baxter.

Like Douglas's "Eneados", Carver's 10 part mass is one of the pinnacles
of Scottish artistic achievement. This is an opportunity to hear at
least an echo of the age of James IV,in a supremely appropriate and very
beautiful setting. The concert starts at 8pm. Full texts and
translations will be provided.

Doors open at 7 p.m.  Tickets at the door.  Check the Coronach website
for details. www.coronach.co.uk/

NB: The concert can also be enjoyed on 20 April, 8pm, in Inverness's
Eastgate
Centre, with its cathedral-like accoustic and large statue of James IV.