| 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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| 27-Feb-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | 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. With just six members of the orchestra providing her with impeccable support, this was a performance of a sort of off-the-cuff brilliance in which Ibragimova sounded like she was simply playing a favourite piece of hers in private. Every touch, every shift of style or mood, seemed spontaneous, born of an impulsive, powerful love.Read full review... | |
| 11-Dec-2011 Greyfriars Kirk | Baltic Renaissance: Scottish Ensemble in Greyfriars Kirk |
 Built on the site of a Franciscan friary which was dissolved in 1559, Greyfriars Kirk is one of the treasures of Edinburgh's 'Old Town'. A rich tradition of music-making has grown there, due to its striking interior and fantastic acoustic. Add evening candlelight to this and you have the perfect setting for the dark, primal urgency of Bronius Kutavičius' 'Northern Gates' from The Gates of Jerusalem (1991). This arresting work opened the Scottish Ensemble's sixth and final 'Baltic Renaissance' tour date.Read full review... | |
