Paul Carey Jones receives high praise for the world premiere of the Prometheus Symphony with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the Lammermuir Festival

Following the recent performance in Scotland, bass-baritone Paul Carey Jones receives high praise for the world premiere of the Prometheus Symphony with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at St Mary's Parish Church as part of the Lammermuir Festival.

The performance has also received a four stars review from Keith Bruce of The Herald.

The full article is available to read on The Scotsman’s website here and on the Telegraph website here.

“A powerful and muscular work, scored for full orchestra and two soloists (dazzling soprano Jennifer France and magisterial baritone Paul Carey Jones), MacRae’s Prometheus Symphony pulls on an assortment of relevant texts, from Aeschylus to Goethe, and weaves them into a sound world that is fundamentally primitive, yet blossoms with an abundance of effusive lyricism – soulful qualities that have become a recent feature in MacRae’s maturing style.”

Ken Walton- The Scotsman

“MacRae’s astonishing Prometheus Symphony, the last of his three works as the festival’s composer in association, was a nervy, dramatic exploration of the Greek myth in almost a sequence of semi-operatic scenas, sung with brilliant conviction by soprano Jennifer France and baritone Paul Carey Jones.”

David Kettle - The Telegraph

“Excellent singing from […] Paul Carey Jones’s warmly involving baritone […]”

Simon Thompson - The Times