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Maria
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MARCHANT
Sunday
19TH MAY
at 2.45pm
Multi award-winning pianist and conductor Maria Marchant performs frequently as a concert soloist at leading venues in the UK and overseas. She has performed with the English Chamber Orchestra and has appeared with John Gibbons and WSO on several occasions, becoming a firm favourite with Worthing audiences.
Maria Marchant returns
to play Chopin’s Romantic PianoConcertoNo.2.
Piano Concerto No. 2 by Chopin was composed when he was only 20, and was premiered a year later featuring Chopin himself as the soloist. It is a Romantic melody of stark, dynamic contrast and ends in a vein of simple freshness and infectious good spirits.
Glinka’s opera Ruslan and Ludmila is based on the 1920 poem by Alexander Pushkin – a tale of magic, sorcerers and the supernatural. The overture is cast in a familiar sonata form with an atmosphere that evokes the fantasies of the poem. Scriabin, also Russian, was a composer and virtuoso pianist and his Reverie is a short piece – his first for full orchestra, composed in total secrecy – a brooding, lyrical work.
Brahms often spoke of hearing Beethoven’s footsteps behind him and this self-imposed expectation is perhaps the reason it took him so long to complete his First Symphony – some 14 years. In fact, when it was premiered in 1876 it was immediately dubbed Beethoven’s Tenth – its lineage is plain to hear but it is an epic, magisterial and individual work that is both exciting and romantic.
Maria Marchant photo - Steven Peskett
Mikhail Glinka Overture ‘Ruslan and Ludmila’ Sunday
Alexander Scriabin Reverie Frédéric Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2
2ND OCTOBER
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor at 2.45pm