This is Rattle: Helen Grime

The British composer Helen Grime celebrates Sir Simon Rattle’s arrival with a personally-curated programme of her own music and its inspirations.

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This is Rattle: Helen Grime

London

20 Sep 2017

The British composer Helen Grime celebrates Sir Simon Rattle’s arrival with a personally-curated programme of her own music and its inspirations.

Saffron Centre for Young Musicians Side-by-Side

Saffron Walden

23 Sep 2017

Britten Sinfonia players join young players from the Saffron Centre for Young Musicians to launch their new season.

Mother Goose Family Concert

Beverley

21 Oct 2017

Britten Sinfonia present Mother Goose, an interactive concert designed to introduce children to the delights of classical repertoire for chamber orchestra in a fun and collaborative environment.

Elder conducts Brahms

Norwich London Saffron Walden

08 Nov - 10 Nov 2017

Brahms’s First Symphony, one of the greatest of all Romantic symphonies, was first performed with considerably smaller musical forces than we are used to hearing today.

At Lunch One 2017-18

London Norwich

17 Nov - 24 Nov 2017

Nik Bärtsch’s music was praised by The New York Times for blending ‘post-modernism with a precision groove honed in the spirit of James Brown’.

King’s College Choir: Chichester Psalms

London Saffron Walden

02 Dec - 16 Feb 2018

Written in 1965, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, with its brass, harps and exquisite solo for boy treble, provides an exhilarating invocation of the composer’s hopes for brotherhood and peace, sentiments mirrored by Vaughan Williams impassioned Dona nobis pacem.

At Lunch Two 2017-18

London Norwich

24 Jan - 26 Jan 2018

Leo Chadburn’s new work for piano trio and electronics is set amongst chamber repertoire both new and old.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

Paris

03 Feb 2018

Who among us doesn’t remember Psycho’s famous shower scene? Norman Bates’ (Anthony Perkins) knife pounds to the rhythm of the string dissonances imagined by Bernard Hermmann.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo

Paris

04 Feb 2018

The distinct pleasure of watching one of Hitchcock’s major films is doubled with the addition of hearing Bernard Herrmann’s score live by Britten Sinfonia.

Rhapsody in Blue with Jeremy Denk

London Norwich

27 Feb - 02 Mar 2018

From its opening clarinet glissando Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue has become synonymous with 1920’s America and its popularity continues to this day.

Easter Voices

London

28 Mar 2018

The talents of the acclaimed Britten Sinfonia Voices, conducted by Eamonn Dougan, are showcased in a special Easter concert featuring two masses written 170 years apart.

At Lunch Three 2017-18

London Norwich

18 Apr - 20 Apr 2018

Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Caroline Shaw’s new work is premiered in the third At Lunch concert of the season.

Beethoven Symphony Cycle (No’s 4 & 5)

Saffron Walden London Norwich

19 May - 27 May 2018

Thomas Adès and Britten Sinfonia’s journey through Beethoven’s Symphonies reaches the half-way point with the perennially popular, vivacious Symphony No 5 and the subdued, poignant Symphony No 4.

Beethoven Symphony Cycle (No 6)

Saffron Walden London

20 May - 24 May 2018

Beethoven takes inspiration from nature, allowing his imagination to range vividly across the Austrian countryside in his thrilling, intricate “Pastoral” symphony.

Adès, Barry, Beethoven – chamber music

London

23 May 2018

Volatile substances: Thomas Adès and the Britten Sinfonia mix the music of Beethoven and Gerald Barry.

Thomas Adès conducts Thomas Adès

Amsterdam

26 May 2018

Following their 2016 BBC Proms appearance together, Britten Sinfonia and Steven Isserlis under the baton of Thomas Adès once again perform Adès own Lieux retrouves in the prestigious ZaterdagMatinee series at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw.

At Lunch Four 2017-18

Norwich

12 Jul 2018

Britten Sinfonia Academy take centre stage in the final concerts of our 2017-18 At Lunch series.