Troubadour

BBC Radio Scotland’s rumoured plan to axe a huge swathe of its specialist music programming has now been confirmed. A news exclusive this week by the Scotsman’s arts correspondent Brian Ferguson extracted a response from the press office at Pacific Quay that neither denied BBC Scotland’s intentions nor offered a convincing argument for the controversial… BBC … More BBC Music Show Cuts — VoxCarnyx

Theatre Royal, Glasgow This is absolute fresh territory for Scottish Opera. Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar: the Fountain of Tears may claim itself an opera, and by literal definition it is, but that is perhaps to diminish the uniqueness with which it eschews idiomatic purity, embracing most notably the hypnotic charisma of Spanish flamenco dancing, the laid-back… Scottish … More Scottish Opera / Ainadamar — VoxCarnyx

American composer Amy Beach’s significant contribution to the solo piano repertoire is finally beginning to receive the recognition and popularity it deserves. This collection offers ten intermediate to advanced solo pieces selected from across Beach’s long career by Gail Smith. Let’s take a look… Piano Music of Amy Beach — Pianodao

Originally posted on nordicviola:
The end of May saw Nordic Viola playing together under the same roof for the first time since March 2020! And what a way to start, bringing our new commission, “Aud” by Linda Buckley, to life for the first time as we recorded “Sagas and Seascapes” for Orkney International Science Festival…

Originally posted on rareTunes:
A look back at how, in 1988, the Scottish traditional music band The Whistlebinkies were invited to play fiddle, pipes, concertina, percussion and flute on The Cutting Crew’s follow up to their 1986 USA chart topping (I Just) Died in Your Arms. The Whistlebinkies – rareTunes