The Ancient Bruce
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Co-founder of VoxCarnyx.com.
Home territory tour leads up to launch of international small group album, Violin Cafe. Exclusive interview with violin star, Nicola Benedetti.
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Global café music
Scotland’s violin star, Nicola Benedetti, talks to Keith Bruce as she goes out on the road with a small group from this weekend. Nicola Benedetti has hardly been idle, embracing motherhood and marr…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/10/07/global-cafe-music/
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Orchestras are go! Season-openers from
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and
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reviewed
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SCO / Emelyanychev & RSNO / Sondergard
Usher Hall, Edinburgh / Glasgow Royal Concert Hall The Scottish Chamber Orchestra entitled the opening of its new season From Darkness to Light and that idea was just as audible in the concerts tha…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/10/06/sco-emelyanychev-rsno-sondergard/
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Schubert recast by baritone Roderick Williams for himself and the Carducci Quartet at The Cumnock Tryst
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Cumnock Tryst: Roderick Williams/Carducci Quartet
Trinity Church, Cumnock In Crail Church during the East Neuk Festival earlier this year, young baritone James Newby gave a remarkable performance of Schubert’s first major song cycle Die schone Mul…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/10/06/cumnock-tryst-roderick-williams-carducci-quartet/
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Ravel, Walton, Clocks and Bears - Oh My!
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at the Lammermuir Festival
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Lammermuir: Scottish Opera Double Bill
St Mary’s, Haddington Perfect though the use of Haddington’s Corn Exchange proved for Britten’s Albert Herring at last year’s Lammermuir Festival, Scottish Opera’s return to St Mary’s for its 2025 …
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/09/06/lammermuir-scottish-opera-double-bill/
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Double-bill of contrast and parallels from
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has Haddington premiere at the LammermuirFest tomorrow. Director Jacopo Spirei explains his plan and inspiration.
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Opposites Attract
Director Jacopo Spirei tells KEN WALTON why his new Double Bill production for Scottish Opera, opening at Lammermuir Festival, has all the quirky trappings of a Netflix series. Ready for a do…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/09/03/opposites-attract/
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Thoughts on the staged opera at the Edinburgh International Festival
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EIF: Orpheus and Eurydice / Book of Mountains and Seas
Edinburgh Playhouse / The Lyceum At the March launch of the 2025 Edinburgh International Festival programme, the Festival’s Head of Music, Nik Zekulin, conceded that the opera content was slighter …
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/08/18/eif-orpheus-and-eurydice-book-of-mountains-and-seas/
about 2 months ago
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“Mozart readings are now easily escaping the long shadow cast by the SCO’s partnership with Sir Charles Mackerras.” Maxim Emelyanychev’s operas in concert with
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EIF: La clemenza di Tito
Usher Hall, Edinburgh Although he made a very brief one of opposition to the war in Ukraine at the beginning of March 2022, no-one looks to the SCO’s Russian Principal Conductor for political state…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/08/12/eif-la-clemenza-di-tito/
about 2 months ago
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“An utterly involving evening that captured the urgency of La Clemenza di Tito’s speedy composition”
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La Clemenza di Tito review – Emelyanychev and SCO spark magic with enthralling Mozart
With a luxury cast bringing anguish, believability and vocal perfection to Mozart’s opera of love and divided loyalty, this concert performance was flawless
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/aug/11/la-clemenza-di-tito-review-usher-hall-edinburgh-maxim-melyanychev-scottish-chamber-orchestra-mozart
about 2 months ago
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Britpop’s loss is
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gain:
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Getting Physical with Gluck
Once pipped for pop stardom, Iestyn Davies opted instead for success as a classical “yodeller”. The award-winning countertenor stars with Australian circus ensemble Circa in Gluck’s Orpheus and Eur…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/08/10/getting-physical-with-gluck/
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The epic eight-hour choral start to the 78th
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The Veil of the Temple – powerful expressive talents on display in eight-hour choral epic
The opening concert of this year’s Edinburgh international festival saw conductor Sofi Jeannin put in a remarkable shift marshalling combined choirs
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/aug/03/the-veil-of-the-temple-usher-hall-edinburgh
2 months ago
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A trawl through the rewarding trails to follow at the 20th East Neuk Festival
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East Neuk at 20
At the Opening Concert of this year’s East Neuk Festival, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Principal Guest conductor paused between the first and second movements of Lars-Erik Larsson’s Pastoral Su…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/07/01/east-neuk-at-20/
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Orkney’s St Magnus Festival begins on Friday
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Remembering Max
The 49th St Magnus Festival takes a moment to remember co-founder Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, but will his piano measure up to the memory? Pianist Mihal Ritivoiu talks to KEN WALTON There are many re…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/06/17/remembering-max/
4 months ago
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Music for a Summer’s Evening from the Scottish Ensemble and
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V&A Dundee tonight
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Scottish Ensemble & Heloise Werner
Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow Not for the first time, the idea of a chamber music concert in Glasgow’s grand galleries turned out to be better than the reality because of the challenges of the v…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/06/16/scottish-ensemble-heloise-werner/
4 months ago
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Soprano Heloise Werner joins the Scottish Ensemble on Concerts for a Summer Night
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Werner’s originals
Soprano Heloise Werner talks to Keith Bruce about her collaboration with the Scottish Ensemble – and other plans. There is nothing Scottish about French-British soprano, cellist and composer Helois…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/06/05/werners-originals/
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“Choir director Suzi Digby’s vigorous conducting style and crystal-clear beat speaks of her long experience”
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Perth Festival: Ora Singers
St John’s Kirk, Perth The most unchanged and regularly used venue in the half century of the Perth Festival of the Arts is also roughly contemporaneous with some of the music often heard there, the…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/05/23/perth-festival-ora-singers/
5 months ago
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Season finale dedicated to former
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first cello David Watkin
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SCO / Emelyanychev
City Halls, Glasgow The Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s former principal cellist David Watkin was not just a hugely respected musician but also a man much loved by his colleagues and then by students …
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/05/19/sco-emelyanychev-24/
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A sparkling double-bill from
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Trial by Jury/A Matter of Misconduct! review – gags and Spads in Scottish Opera’s sparkling double bill
Gilbert and Sullivan’s 150-year-old comic opera gets a lively update, while there is plenty of fun to be had at the expense of politicians in Toby Hessian’s pacy new operetta
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/15/trial-by-jury-a-matter-of-misconduct-review-theatre-royal-glasgow
5 months ago
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A visitor to be treasured: Yeol Eum Son on best form in the company of
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and its peerless chorus
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SCO / Emelyanychev
City Halls, Glasgow Visits to Scotland by pianist Yeol Eum Son – who has appeared with the BBC SSO, as an EIF Queen’s Hall recitalist, as a guest soloist in the Usher Hall’s Sunday concert series, …
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/05/13/sco-emelyanychev-23/
5 months ago
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A Barber, a Figaro, a Tristan and The Great Wave 🌊 Main stage highlights of the coming season
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NEWS – VoxCarnyx
Posts about NEWS written by VoxCarnyx
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Shoulder-pads and chicken nuggets in Mozart’s Die Zauberflote
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Die Zauberflote
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Mozart’s Magic Flute, in its story and subject matter and in the libretto of Emanuel Schikander, is very much a piece of its time, which contemporary stage directors…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/03/19/die-zauberflote/
7 months ago
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Musical highlights of a gap year at the Edinburgh International Festival
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Edinburgh’s gap year
Funding austerity has shaped this year’s International Festival, writes Keith Bruce Politically-astute EIF director Nicola Benedetti prefaced the media briefing revealing her third Festival program…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/03/13/edinburghs-gap-year/
7 months ago
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Rising tenor star Matthew McKinney with pianist Marianna Abrahamyan at Westbourne Music
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Matthew McKinney & Marianna Abrahamyan
Glasgow Art Club Scots tenor Matthew McKinney already has an impressive CV, roles at English Touring Opera followed by first prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Awards at Wigmore Hall last year and a sti…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/03/05/matthew-mckinney-marianna-abrahamyan/
7 months ago
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“Compelling and fascinating” Mahler 9 from Thomas Sondergard and the RSNO
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https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/02/23/rsno-sondergard-22/
8 months ago
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Composers showcased by The Cumnock Tryst preface BBCSSO’s Scottish premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s Concerto for Orchestra “Ghosts”
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BBC SSO / MacMillan
City Halls, Glasgow As it was revealed in the programme, it seems most unlikely that Sir James MacMillan was the only soul in the City Hall unaware that the Scottish premiere of his new Concerto fo…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/02/22/bbc-sso-macmillan/
8 months ago
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Scottish Opera’s edition of Olivia Fuchs’ Janacek staging
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The Makropulos Affair review – immaculately paced and gripping opera storytelling
Olivia Fuchs’ production of Janáček’s opera is a remarkable achievement, with Orla Boylan’s riveting performance at its heart. In the pit, Martyn Brabbins is superb
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/feb/21/the-makropulos-affair-review-immaculately-paced-and-gripping-opera-storytelling
8 months ago
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Conductor Martyn Brabbins makes his main stage opera debut with Scottish Opera new production of Janacek’s The Makropulos Affair on Saturday
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Return to the pit
Conductor Martyn Brabbins speaks to Keith Bruce as he makes his career debut in Scotland with Janacek’s The Makropulos Affair As a mentor to young conductors at the St Magnus Festival and at the Ro…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/02/11/return-to-the-pit/
8 months ago
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A cleverly compiled and performed recital by the flute and piano Aurras Duo for Oban Music Society
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Aurras Duo
St John’s Cathedral, Oban For their return visit to Oban Music Society, the flute and piano partnership of Fiona Sweeney and Ben Eames, now trading under the name of the Greek goddess of sound, ass…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/02/10/aurras-duo/
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Estonian conductor Mihhail Gerts steps in for Ilan Volkov to direct BBCSSO
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BBC SSO / Gerts
City Halls, Glasgow At the end of the week when the BBC Scottish announced a new Principal Guest Conductor in Delyana Lazarova, we should have been seeing her predecessor in the post, Ilan Volkov, …
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8 months ago
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No more cuts? Funding for music organisations in Scotland after yesterday’s Creative Scotland announcement
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Scotland’s new arts funding landscape
Creative Scotland, the arts funding body, has acted to ensure that arts organisations spend less of their time making application to Creative Scotland (CS) for money. In a widely-welcomed, if overd…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2025/01/31/scotlands-new-arts-funding-landscape/
8 months ago
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Rare Haydn opera and Regietheater at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
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L’infedelta delusa
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Naturalism has ruled the roost on Scotland’s opera stages for so many years now that it is bracingly refreshing to see a production quite as committed to the directo…
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8 months ago
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“The fluid passage of these players through 600 years of composition was the clearest demonstration of the universality and timelessness of music”
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Luban: Aidan O’Rourke & Sean Shibe
Perth Concert Hall On stage, if not in their publicity shots, new duo Luban are a sartorially mismatched couple: guitarist Sean Shibe has a fondness for dressing up and violinist Aidan O’Rourke res…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2024/12/12/luban-aidan-orourke-sean-shibe/
10 months ago
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The young team bring vitality to an American programme with @RSNO
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RSNO / Hahn
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall The young team were in charge at Scotland’s national orchestra, and it was an excellent advert for the RSNO’s recruitment policy. Both still in their late 20s, soloist Ra…
https://voxcarnyx.com/2024/12/08/rsno-hahn-3/
10 months ago
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Herald review of the RSNO with young Scots pianist Ethan Loch
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'A glorious excursion': RSNO/Sondergard at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
'A glorious excursion': RSNO/Sondergard at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24763667.a-glorious-excursion-rsno-sondergard-glasgow-royal-concert-hall/
10 months ago
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Congratulations to @GlasgowJazzFest for an exemplary evening of top music and mutually supportive prize-giving at Thursday evening’s
#ScottishJazzAwards
- with particular congrats to all the nominees and the actual winners of course.
10 months ago
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