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Sir James MacMillan’s 60th Astonishing Birthday Concert with SCO and Chorus.

By David Smythe, 22 February 2019

Sir James MacMillan’s 60th Birthday Concert with SCO and Chorus rediscovers two major seminal works: the dramatic Veni, Veni, Emannuel with Colin Currie and the intense Seven Last Words from the Cross.

*****

*****

Glasgow

24 Feb 2019

Sir James MacMillan’s 60th Astonishing Birthday Concert

By David Smythe

Birmingham

Staring into the void: bravery and beauty from Britten Sinfonia and Voices

By Simon Cummings, 20 March 2016

Britten Sinfonia and Voices directed by Eamonn Dougan courageously plumb the depths of humanity’s despair in music ancient and modern

*****

*****

Birmingham

21 Mar 2016

Bravery and beauty from Britten Sinfonia and Voices

By Simon Cummings

Gateshead

Agony and ecstasy from Northern Sinfonia

By Jane Shuttleworth, 17 May 2013

It’s a slightly topsy-turvy world when a Shostakovich symphony lightens the mood and sends you home grinning, and when a work by Mahler is a filler rather than the main event.

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Gateshead

20 May 2013

Agony and ecstasy from Northern Sinfonia

By Jane Shuttleworth