Under longtime leader John Butt, the Dunedin Consort has become Scotland's leading historical-performance ensemble with a catalog of successful recordings and widespread performances and radio broadcasts in the U.K. and beyond. Dunedin (or Din Eidyn) is the historical name of Edinburgh Castle, and the ensemble took that name when it was founded in 1995 by Ben Parry and Susan Hamilton. The Consort's 2001 recording, In the Beginning, offered vocal works by Copland and Barber, and subsequent recordings included Renaissance composers and The People's Mass. The group's 2013 recording of Bach's St. John Passion was the first to place the work into the context of a liturgical observance. In 2017, the Consort returned to Handel for recordings of the Ode for St. Cecilia's Day in 2018 and the oratorio Samson in 2019. In 2021, it released Ich habe genug, a selection of popular Bach cantatas.