Nicola Benedetti’s new album brings together music that represents the different musical strands of the Scottish violinist’s career, from virtuosic showpieces to French romance, contemporary favorites, and Scottish folk, freshly arranged for a mixed chamber group (violin, guitar, accordion, cello, and small pipes). “This inventive new line-up of instruments delivers a communal, conversational ‘evening cafe appropriate’ sound,” says Benedetti. “A sound with the flexibility to work across genres, cultures and performance environments.” Collaborators Samuele Telari (accordion), Plínio Fernandes (guitar), Thomas Carrol (cello), Yume Fujise (violin) and Brìghde Chaimbeul (smallpipes) join Benedetti to share a mug of something hot and steamy in the company of favourites old and new arranged as never heard before.