“BRITTEN SINFONIA OUGHT TO ENJOY NATIONAL TREASURE STATUS” –

The Telegraph, 2023

Britten Sinfonia is a different kind of orchestra that instruments breathe and crunch. scores reveal themselves anew. In the hands of these players, they still surprise, after 200 years.”

– New York Times, 2022 on Britten Sinfonia’s Complete Beethoven Symphonies conducted by Thomas

Adès

Thomas Adès conducting Britten Sinfonia in the recording of Beethoven’s complete symphonies

Recordings

Selected recordings are below. View our full discography at brittensinfonia.com.

Matilda Lloyd: Casta Diva Trumpet arrangements of opera arias. (Chandos: CHAN 5321)

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies & Barry: Selected Works. Conductor: Thomas Adès (Signum: SIGCD687)

Alison Balsom: Quiet City

Classical music written in America’s Jazz Age. (Warner 9029622991)

Goldberg Variations: Bach’s keyboard work arranged by Dmitry Sitkovetsky. (Harmonia Mundi: MU 807633)

Vaughan Williams / James MacMillan: Oboe Concertos (Harmonia Mundi: HMU807573)

James

Performed by The Sixteen and Britten Sinfonia. (CORO)

Off the concert stage, Britten Sinfonia is active in the studio, recording music from baroque and classical to contemporary, opera and jazz. Our recordings have been released on labels including Chandos, Decca, Warner Classics, Harmonia Mundi and Hyperion, and have been Grammy nominated, received a Gramophone Award, an ECHO/ Klassik Recording Award, and achieved success at the BBC Music Magazine Awards.

We received the premiere award for James MacMillan’s Oboe Concerto in 2016, and more recently for our collaboration with other musicians around the UK in Edmund Finnis’s The Air Turning.