Had We Never review " music and poetry to exorcise Scottish demons
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, EdinburghA new setting of Robert Burns' The Slave's Lament by Sally Beamish and Adrian Sherwood was the centrepiece of a concert of stark beauty and dark truthsRobert Burns asked the question in his love song Ae Fond Kiss, "Had we never loved sae kindly / Had we never loved sae blindly." His conclusion was bittersweet, to do with simple heartbreak. A current exhibition at the Scott…