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Details
The Assembly Hall
Stoke Abbott Road
Worthing
West Sussex
BN11 1HQ
England
Tickets
Prices: £13, £17, £21 (£4, concessions)
Booking line: 01903 206 206
Book Tickets
Programme
Gioachino Rossini – La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie): Overture
Felix Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64
~ Interval ~
Hector Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique, H 48
Performers
Braimah Kanneh-Mason – violin
Dominic Grier – Conductor
Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme Note
The outstanding young soloist, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, joins WPO for a performance of Mendelssohn’s evergreen Violin Concerto. Members of the superb Kanneh-Mason family are no strangers to Worthing audiences, and this promises to be a real highlight of the WPO’s concert season.
The programme concludes with Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, a visionary work on an epic scale, depicting an artist’s opium-induced visions of obsessive love, ranging from tender longing to a nightmarish witches' sabbath. With its bold orchestration and striking originality, it revolutionised Romantic music through its vivid storytelling and emotional intensity.
Rossini’s overture to La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie), opens the programme.
The WPO is Worthing’s resident full-sized orchestra — high-quality music making since 1948.
