Worthing Symphony Orchestra is back with another extraordinary concert featuring Soloist Maria Marchant.

Programme:
Glinka - Overture ‘Ruslan and Ludmila’
Scriabin - Reverie
Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 2
Brahms - Symphony No. 1 in C minor

Melt into summer with the limpid tones of Chopin at his most intoxicating. Sussex pianist Maria Marchant is fast becoming a firm favourite with Worthing audiences. Her infectious performances of Gershwin last season were rapturously received so her performance of Chopin’s ever-popular 2nd Piano Concerto is eagerly anticipated.

Glinka’s rousing Overture ‘Ruslan and Ludmila’ is a regular opener for Worthing Symphony Orchestra’s annual Schools Concert and is justifiably one of the most popular overtures in the repertoire.

The heady exoticism of Scriabin’s music is gaining more and more fans as people discover his unique blend of post-Chopin lyricism and sumptuous romantic harmony. He had never before composed for Orchestra and when he played his first published orchestral composition – Reverie – to the great Rimsky-Korsakov in St. Petersburg in 1898, he was thrilled at the response – ‘delightful’.

The season closes in majestic tones with Brahms’s life-affirming Symphony No. 1 - a work viewed in the nineteenth century as Beethoven’s 10th. A fitting epitaph for a work that again takes us from darkness to light and ends in a triumphant blaze of orchestral sound.