• “The reasons for Britten Sinfonia’s incremental rise in the past 20 years are various, but among them are a commitment to interesting programmes and the assiduous building of relationships”

  Financial Times

• “The playing was marked by the kind of luminous and infectious beauty that only comes from a true marriage of mastery and love”

  The Guardian

• “The UK’s most consistently dynamic chamber ensemble”

  The New Statesman

• “I haven’t heard a chamber orchestra performing with such extrovert character and unflagging energy for years.”

  The Times

• “But as always with this orchestra there was more to savour than just stellar perfomance. The programme was ingeniously shaped.”

  The Daily Telegraph, Ivan Hewett

Barbican 2013-14 events now on sale

 

Following a successful opening season as Associate Ensemble at the Barbican, Britten Sinfonia returns in 2013-14 with even more events across the Barbican's performing spaces. From September 2013, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama will be opening Milton Court - a new performance venue including a 608 seat concert hall which will be used by Britten Sinfonia.

As well as Milton Court, Britten Sinfonia will appear in both the Barbican Hall and Theatre, St Giles Cripplegate and Milton Court Concert Hall in a series of events which show the creative partnership between the orchestra and the Barbican continuing to blossom. Ian Bostridge, Paul Lewis, Mark Padmore, Maxim Rysanov, Pekka Kuusisto and Iestyn Davies all feature in a season which embraces significant anniversaries, flirts with Eastern folk and English song, and makes bold connections between old and new, including London premieres of works by Judith Weir and Anna Clyne. Concerts at Milton Court include: Paul Lewis as soloist/director in Mozart’s Piano Concerto K414 (October 2013) alongside the London premiere of Anna Clyne’s “fragile elegy” for strings, Within her Arms; outstanding young violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja makes her Britten Sinfonia debut with a programme of Brahms, Mendelssohn and folk-inspired works by Janáček, Bartók and Tigran Mansurian (March), and a February focus on Britten Sinfonia’s stellar wind players, including Nicholas Daniel (oboe).  The orchestra also plays a major part in Barbican celebrations of Britten and Birtwistle.

2013-14 Britten Sinfonia Barbican Season:

• Paul Lewis Friday 11 October 2013, Milton Court Concert Hall More Info
• Richard Alston Dance Company and Britten Sinfonia Wednesday 6 November - Saturday 9 November 2013, Barbican Theatre More Info
• Bostridge sings Our Hunting Fathers Friday 8 November 2013, Barbican Hall More Info
• Curlew River Thursday 14 November - Saturday 16 November 2013, St Giles', Cripplegate More Info
• Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Sunday 24 November 2013, Milton Court Concert Hall More Info
• Choir of King's College, Cambridge - Britten Saint Nicolas Saturday 7 December 2013, Barbican Hall, More Info
• Imogen Cooper and Britten Sinfonia Winds Friday 14 February 2014, Milton Court Concert Hall More Info
• Patricia Kopatchinskaja directs Thursday 6 March 2014, Milton Court Concert Hall More Info
• Good Friday: Bach St John Passion Friday 18 April 2014, Barbican Hall More Info
• Birtwistle at 80: Yan Tan Tethera Thursday 29 May 2014, Barbican Hall More Info
• Birtwistle at 80: Fields of Sorrow Friday 30 May 2014, Milton Court Concert Hall More Info

To book tickets follow the links above or call the Barbcian Box Office on 020 7638 8891.

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