James MacMillan: So Deep SSAATTBB, oboe & viola

A superbly imaginative arrangement of Robert Burns’s O my luve’s like a red, red rose. The melody winds its way through this arrangement supported by a variety of drones. A little later the accompanying voices repeat the words ‘so deep’ in their own times to create what MacMillan describes as ‘the ebb and flow of a large, gentle wave’. For mixed choir, oboe and viola.