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Ken Walton

Music Critic at The Scotsman

Classical Music Critic of The Scotsman. Co-founder of Classical music website https://t.co/p8gRwsHc9T (@VoxCarnyx)

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  • Su-a Lee and Alison Green on the SCO's Summer Tour: 'It’s like a family holiday'

    1 week ago | scotsman.com | Ken Walton

    Taking classical music to communities all around Scotland, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s annual Summer Tour is never less than eventful, writes Ken WaltonFor once, a good news story about Scotland’s ferries: the day a group of Harris-bound Scottish Chamber Orchestra musicians forced one of the Highlands and Islands’ finest vessels to about-turn and effectively rescue a concert.

  • The Sixteen, Cumnock review: 'energising, imaginative and compelling'

    1 week ago | scotsman.com | Ken Walton

    The Sixteen: Voices of Angels, St John’s Church, Cumnock ★★★★It’s a measure of the confidence in, and support of, Sir James MacMillan’s award-winning Cumnock Tryst Festival that hardly a spare seat remained for Saturday’s event at which MacMillan announced the programme for the 11th Tryst Festival (2-5 October, www.thecumnocktryst.com).

  • Tectonics: BBC SSO 1, Glasgow review: 'food for thought'

    1 month ago | scotsman.com | Ken Walton

    Tectonics: BBC SSO, City Halls, Glasgow ★★★★This year’s Tectonics Festival, running over Saturday and Sunday, took as its key theme “the profound act of listening”. You could argue that goes without saying for any music festival, but when it comes to Tectonics, and the explorative cutting-edge repertoire favoured by curator Ilan Volkov, the challenge can be as provocative as it is revealing.

  • The Great Wave: Scottish Opera's Hokusai-inspired production to 'straddle fact and fantasy'

    1 month ago | scotsman.com | Ken Walton

    The headline news for Scottish Opera earlier this month, while revealing its upcoming 2025-26 programme, is that the new season also marks music director Stuart Stratford’s tenth year in the company’s artistic hot seat. Given how critical the past decade has been for Scottish Opera - marking its reinvention following a funding crisis that seriously threatened its credibility and very existence - Stratford’s success in the role is equally a measure of that comeback.

  • Scottish Opera: The Merry Widow, Glasgow review: 'a dizzying theatrical tsunami'

    1 month ago | scotsman.com | Ken Walton

    Scottish Opera: The Merry Widow, Theatre Royal, Glasgow ★★★★To appreciate this brazen new Scottish Opera production, nay re-envisioning, of Franz Lehár’s 1905 operetta The Merry Widow, there’s absolutely no place for preconceptions.

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5 May 25

RT @scotsman_arts: The Great Wave: Scottish Opera's Hokusai-inspired production to 'straddle fact and fantasy' As @ScottishOpera launches…

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2 May 25

RT @scotsman_arts: Scottish Opera: The Merry Widow, Glasgow review: 'a dizzying theatrical tsunami' https://t.co/kqlzo12mEB