The Mackintosh album hits iTunes and everywhere else next Monday, but if you can’t quite wait till then, you can buy it here and we’ll get it to you as soon as we can.

The repertoire for Purcell’s Revenge at the end of the month is coming together nicely and is developing in several directions at once, which is quite exciting already. And word just in from Keith Sanger (to be published soon) suggests that the story of Purcell's contemporary, the  Edinburgh fiddler John McLachlan may be more complicated than any of us have thus far realised …