Performer: Sæunn Þorsteinsdóttir

The midday concert was held a barn designed by the same team who engineered London's Wigmore Hall, and acoustics are as warm and carefully attuned as its modest, appealing interior.

Profound musical expression shrinks against the majesty of the setting, but ends up all the more profound, in the summer chamber music series.

Employing khoomei, a style of singing that remains “a mystery to Western science”, each of the four performers was capable of producing up to four notes at once.