After the concert, Twa Folk (Irene Watt and Graham White) welcome you with music and song from the North-East of Scotland. There are songs of land and sea, and their instruments include harp, bouzouki, harmonica and bodhran.
A concert of music to celebrate a great discovery and the island where it happened a century ago. Helgoland Museum director Dr Simone Arnhold, tells the story, with music from Orkney Camerata conducted by Iain Campbell; the Orkney Chamber Choir conducted by Robert Hersey; Hannah Firth (soprano) and Iain Campbell (piano). There is Haydn, Grieg, Elgar and Mogens Pedersøn; Edward Bairstow, Hindemith, Nielsen and Ronald Binge – and the world premiere of a new work by George McPhee in memory of the physicist Peter Higgs and his love of hillwalking and music.
A stunning new film from a master documentary maker. “Hypnotic. Goes beyond architecture to take us into the secret world of rocks and stones,” wrote one reviewer. Victor Kossakovsky’s earlier films included Gunda on animal consciousness and Aquarela on the natural wonder of water.
