The Creation, St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh

Star rating: *** EDINBURGH Royal Choral Union first sang Haydn's Creation in 1861, with Jenny Lind, the Swedish nightingale, as soprano soloist, and her husband Otto Goldschmidt as conductor. Her secret affair with Mendelssohn, if (as is now thought likely) it really existed, had ended with his sudden death in 1847. Her voice, declared Chopin in 1848, remained "as smooth and even as a thread of hair." In Edinburgh, at the age of 41, she was still in her prime and when she sang On Mighty Pens, Haydn's tribute to "the nightingale's delightful notes", must have captivated the audience.