spine tingling stuff, jim. its haunting. spine tingling stuff, jim. its haunting, farewell to stromness, written by peter maxwell davies originally as a piano piece. that string arrangement is very unusual. but it always makes me think of the elemental quality of life in orkney, those rough seas and the cliffs, and the kind of sometimes unforgiving climate. it is a piece that takes you there, and here, nicola benedetti, who is now so embedded in the life of scotland, director of the life of scotland, director of the edinburgh international festival as well as an internationally famous violin soloist, it is a very special quality, and it seems to speak of the kind of originality that was brought to the music in this service, just as happened in the coronation, where there was a much more creative spirit, in a sense, in the music making, then you sometimes get informal services of that kind. and indeed, we should pay tribute to some of the many conductors and