Garden of Earthly Delights

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) the Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights is ever-enigmatic. Whether it is interpreted as a surreal feast for the senses or as a stark warning about the 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, Medieval monasterian excess and daring modern transgressions, Garden of Earthly Delights offers a vocal cornucopia of surprise and surreptitiously cheeky delight, probing the pleasures and perils of excess.

Program to include music by Josquin, Banchieri, Gallus and new works by Nicole Murphy and Archie Tulk.

Luminescence Chamber Singers

Roland Peelman AM