I. ‘I first saw them’. Largo

MacMillan: Sun-Dogs, for chorus a cappella. Text by Michael Symmons Roberts, with additional lines from the Roman Missal and an English traditional rhyme. In MacMillan's own words : 'richly allegorical, evoking a range of emotions and images, dark and terrifying one minute, radiant and ecstatic the next.
Sun-Dogs swings between light and dark interpretations of canine character and actions, as though asking itself repeatedly where these noble yet savage animals fit within a religious interpretation of the world.