Exaudi/James Weeks review – intricate, subtle and sonically ravishing

Christ Church, Spitalfields, LondonWeeks and his eight-part choir bring extraordinary light and colour to the poetry of the biblical Song of SongsFor centuries, the erotic poetry of the biblical Song of Songs has attracted choral composers. Completed in 2009, James Weeks’s Mala Punica – which takes its title from the Latin text’s references to pomegranates – consists of eight settings for eight-part choir, each utilising canon as a structural device. In this Spitalfields Music Summer fes