'Music about Scotland is as worthy of attention as European canon'
Alan Riach speaks in to Neil Sutcliffe and Sebastian Schneeberger about composer Buxton Orr and the importance of Scottish classical music.
"My own experience of The Bubblyjock Collective is that it does in fact most certainly “get out ALL the right notes”! But there’s a wonderful thought there – here’s a bird that is in itself a musical instrument, and not afraid of using its throat to come out with a whole range of unpredicted sounds that startle and alert as well as confirm and approve."
Concert to mark centenary of Scottish composer's birth
Alan Riach writes about composer Buxton Orr, The Bubblyjock Collective and our upcoming Buxton Orr programme.
"The Bubblyjock Collective, an ensemble formed in 2023, is one truly inspiring and hopeful sign that things can be done, are being done. Scotland's music is indeed being well-served by three young people, musicians of the first order, devoted and dedicated, as their website puts it, to "promoting and performing music by composers born or based in Scotland". "