You may have thought that Robert Mackintosh was an obscure Perthshire/Edinburgh violinist from the 1780s whose several attempts at mainstream success were doomed to failure, but ... you were wrong. As of this week he is now an Essential Classic, because Radio 3 says so. Our Mackintosh album is 'Essential CD of the week' every morning on Essential Classics, the kind of recognition I think Red Rob would have enjoyed very much ...