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At Aldeburgh Festival, Nicholas Daniel plays the Pied Piper of Cool
For the Aldeburgh Festival's 75th anniversary celebrations, Daniel delivered a great performance of Vaughan Williams's Oboe Concerto, in the company of Gustav and Imogen Holst.
Bacchic ebullience in Beethoven from Thomas Adès
The culmination of Thomas Ades' Beethoven cycle with the Britten Sinfonia channels Beethoven's atavistic energies.
Britten Sinfonia's electric Messiah: Look, no hands!
A conductorless performance of Handel's masterpiece lights up the Barbican.
Bravery and beauty from Britten Sinfonia and Voices
Britten Sinfonia and Voices directed by Eamonn Dougan courageously plumb the depths of humanity’s despair in music ancient and modern
Sonic inundation: Tavener’s Flood of Beauty
There was an inundation of the sound of John Tavener's Flood of Beauty at the Barbican on Sunday, with the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
Baltic music and Bach: Alina Ibragimova and Britten Sinfonia at the Barbican
Alina Ibragimova barely glanced up from her score during her Bach concerto with Britten Sinfonia last night, and the result was some of the most intense, beautiful music-making I can recall hearing.