| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 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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| 28-Apr-2012 Concertgebouw: Main Hall | James MacMillan's Violin Concerto in the Concertgebouw |
 James MacMillan’s Violin Concerto was first performed in 2010, but this afternoon, at the Dutch premiere, was the first time he conducted it. It’s quite an extraordinary piece, so full of ideas that you might wonder if he couldn’t have written two concertos instead of just the one. But when it comes to MacMillan, this potential overload of ideas actually works really well. The music doesn’t need to be subdued or relaxing; what he delivers is a powerful and highly impressive concerto.
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