Mr. de Sabata may be barely known today, except to connoisseurs, but he was second only to Arturo Toscanini among Italian maestros in his day, and one of the few conductors from his country to enjoy an international reputation at the time.
While the chicest party hotels enjoy a reputation for tolerating a certain amount of hedonistic excess, don't mistake them for party-'til-you-drop bacchanalias.
"The full picture around acceptance figures will emerge later this year, but high levels of applications from abroad reflect the excellent reputation Scottish universities enjoy abroad, " he said.