• “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

Recent Reviews

• 14 May 2013 - A Scream and an Outrage

  Reviews from our appearance at A Scream and an Outrage at the Barbican, a festival curated by Nico Muhly.

• 07 May 2013 - Ian Bostridge

  Reviews from our final concert of our 2012-13 Barbican Series, exploring the themes of sleep and night.

• 06 Mar 2013 - Baltic Nights

  Reviews of our Baltic Nights concert with Alina Ibragimova and Britten Sinfonia Voices.

• 20 Feb 2013 - At Lunch 3

  Reviews from our At Lunch 3 concert.

• 20 Feb 2013 - At Lunch 2

  Reviews from our At Lunch 2 concerts with Mark Padmore.

• 19 Feb 2013 - Angela Hewitt directs Beethoven

  Reviews from our performances of Beethoven’s second and fourth piano concertos with Angela Hewitt. Also in this concert, Thomas Gould directed Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and Sibelius’s Scene with Cranes

• 11 Jan 2013 - Philip Glass: Koyaanisqatsi

  Britten Sinfonia joined the Philip Glass Ensemble, Trinity Laban Choir and conductor, Michael Riesman to provide live accompaniment to the cult film, Koyaanisqatsi. Read the reviews here.

• 11 Jan 2013 - At Lunch 1

  Reviews from our first At Lunch concert of the series.

• 10 Jan 2013 - Alice Coote sings Phaedra

  Reviews from Alice Coote sings Phaedra, the concert which launched the Britten 100th Anniversary year.

• 10 Jan 2013 - Where the Wild Things Are

  Reviews from the performance of Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop, which took place during Oliver Knussen’s 60th Birthday weekender at The Barbican Centre.

• 10 Jan 2013 - Max Richter - Vivaldi Recomposed

  Reviews from Max Richter’s Vivaldi Recomposed concert at the Barbican Centre

• 31 Oct 2012 - Britten Sinfonia 20th Birthday Concert

  Reviews from Britten Sinfonia’s 20th birthday celebrations

• 03 Sep 2012 - BBC Proms 2012 - Late Night Prom

  Reviews from The Spirit of Django late night prom with Martin Taylor and Guy Barker

• 13 Aug 2012 - BBC Proms 2012 - Matinee 3

  Reviews from Britten Sinfonia’s Saturday matinee at Cadogan Hall as part of the BBC Proms 2012 with pianist Nicholas Hodges, conductor Clark Rundell and mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley.

• 25 Jun 2012 - Jaga Jazzist

  Reviews from our performance with Jaga Jazzist at the Barbican

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