Dalia Stasevska & BBC Symphony Orchestra - Edinburgh International Festival: Orchestral Highlights 2021 - Bach Track

Top marks for the sound and experience, then, and the rest of the concert won by exuding a terrific sense of musical optimism. Anna Clyne studied at Edinburgh and attended many an EIF herself, so her new piece, PIVOT, taps into that sense of good times relived. Much of the music resembles Scottish folk tunes, sometimes quoting them directly, with cheerful melodies splurging into one another like a drunken evening in the Royal Oak pub, an Edinburgh folk institution that was previously called The Pivot, as it happens.