WPO: Symphonic Variations: Mozart, Franck and Parry at The Assembly Hall, Worthing on Sunday 7th June 2026

WPO: Symphonic Variations

Mozart, Franck and Parry

Add to my Calendar 07-06-2026 15:00 07-06-2026 17:00 36 WPO: Symphonic Variations The WPO welcomes rising-star pianist Eden Agranat Meged, winner of the Coulsdon and Purley Festival Concerto Prize, to play César Franck’s ‘Variations Symphoniques’, now rarely heard in the UK and last performed by the WPO in 1966. Eden also plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat, the last written by the composer for this instrument. The programme concludes with Parry’s Symphony No. 3 (‘The English’).  Among the most frequently performed symphonies by a British composer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the work subsequently fell out of favour.  In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in Parry’s symphonies, and the WPO is delighted to bring this spirited and sunny work to Worthing.  Its final movement takes the form of a set of variations on an invented English folk theme. Sir Hubert Parry, a favourite composer of His Majesty The King, was in fact a locally-based composer, having lived latterly in Rustington, until his death there in 1918. The Assembly Hall, Worthing DD/MM/YYYY

Details

The Assembly Hall
Stoke Abbott Road
Worthing
West Sussex
BN11 1HQ
England

Sunday 7th June 2026
3:00 PM

Tickets

Prices: £13, £17, £21 (£4, concessions)
Booking line: 01903 206 206
Book Tickets

Programme

Cesar Franck – Variations symphoniques
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto no.27 in B-flat major, K.595
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Symphony no.3 'The English'

Performers

Eden Agranat Meged – piano
Dominic Grier – Conductor

Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra

Programme Note

The WPO welcomes rising-star pianist Eden Agranat Meged, winner of the Coulsdon and Purley Festival Concerto Prize, to play César Franck’s ‘Variations Symphoniques’, now rarely heard in the UK and last performed by the WPO in 1966. Eden also plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat, the last written by the composer for this instrument.

The programme concludes with Parry’s Symphony No. 3 (‘The English’). Among the most frequently performed symphonies by a British composer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the work subsequently fell out of favour. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in Parry’s symphonies, and the WPO is delighted to bring this spirited and sunny work to Worthing. Its final movement takes the form of a set of variations on an invented English folk theme.

Sir Hubert Parry, a favourite composer of His Majesty The King, was in fact a locally-based composer, having lived latterly in Rustington, until his death there in 1918.

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