| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 17-May-2013 Sage: Hall One | Agony and ecstasy from Northern Sinfonia |
 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. It’s also unusual to hear Northern Sinfonia playing full orchestral works by either of these composers, as most of their symphonic output requires much larger forces, so there was much that was new and enjoyable in tonight’s concert, even though there was no obvious connection between the works on the programme.
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| 3-May-2013 Sage: Hall One | Northern Sinfonia: Bradley Creswick's blazing fiddle |
 As their contribution to The Sage Gateshead’s weekend-long “Fiddles on Fire” festival, Northern Sinfonia presented a selection of solo violin and string music that artfully blurred the distinctions between musical periods and genres, putting the emphasis firmly on the instrument itself, and on the spirited playing of their leader, Bradley Creswick.
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| 12-Apr-2013 Sage: Hall Two | Northern Sinfonia Late Mix: Contemporary America |
 On Thursday night, I reviewed the vast forces of National Youth Orchestra, playing big colourful works by European exiles in 1930s America. The following night, I was back at The Sage Gateshead to hear Northern Sinfonia’s clever little coda to this concert, performing contemporary American music as part of their Late Mix series, the huge orchestra and big tunes replaced by intricate chamber music that pushes the definition of music to its limits.
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| 29-Mar-2013 Sage: Hall One | Distant Light with Northern Sinfonia |
 On a day when Christians around the world reflect on suffering, torment and lost hope, but with the distant promise of light soon to return, the strings of Northern Sinfonia offered a programme that could serve as a secular, humanist alternative to Good Friday; music written in dark times and troubled places of 20th-century Europe, music that is at times brooding and disturbed, sadly nostalgic but which never seems to lose its hope, or faith in that distant light.
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