The Music Show Folgen

The Proms and the US elections have put music at the barricades. And percussion gets a drum roll at the Art Music Awards.

A haunting sound work for organ written using DNA code. And how composers such as Sculthorpe, Meale and Butterley brought an Australian accent to cosmopolitan modernism.

Brìghde Chaimbeul is the 21-year old musician from Skye who’s changing the audience and sound of bagpipe music. Her debut album The Reeling was recorded live in an old church and features arrangements of traditional Bulgarian, Irish and Scottish tunes. Are sonatas nobler than hip hop? The late Sir Roger Scruton thinks so.