This six-concert tour fulfils this remit, presenting (in alliance with Red Note Ensemble) premiere performances alongside repeat airings of previous commissions.

They are also clearly keen to acknowledge more familiar repertoire, as demonstrated by the choice of Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb to open proceedings, although The University of Edinburgh Chamber Choir gave this unsatisfying work a better performance than it deserved. It was hard to see why they bothered with Leighton's Drop, Drop Slow Tears, even if the same composer's coruscating Paean gave us a thrilling demonstration of organist Thomas Wilkinson's remarkable facility.