Worthing Symphony Orchestra: True Love

One of the most enduring love stories of all time is Shakespeare’s play Romeo & Juliet, which has inspired many pieces of music, including Tchaikovsky’s hugely popular Fantasy-Overture Romeo & Juliet. Prokofiev’s great ballet Romeo & Juliet most famous movement is Montagues & Capulets. It is used as the theme for BBC’s The Apprentice.

Prokofiev’sSecond Piano Concerto is a powerful, romantic work bristling with piano pyrotechnics.
 

The tale of true love continues in Howl's Moving Castle - an epic tale of adventure and imagination by the Welsh author Diana Wyne Jone brought to life in animation by the Oscar-winning director Hayao Miyazaki with music by Joe Hisaishi. The concert will end with John Williams’ theme from the 1982 film E.T.

Solist
Marie-Ange Nguci*

Conductor
John Gibbons

Leader
Julian Leaper

William Alwyn
Magic Island

Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 2*

Sergei Prokofiev
Montagues and Capulets from Romeo and Juliet

Joe Hisaishi
Howl’s Moving Castle

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet

John Williams
Adventures on Earth from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

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