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Butterworth Hall

Concert Series 2005 - 2006

Warwick Arts Centre is delighted to present 12 outstanding classical concerts between October 2005 and May 2006. Tickets can be purchased on subscription or as individual concerts. For full details and a FREE subscription brochure contact the Box Office on 024 7652 4524

Mussorgsky - Khovanschina Prelude
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.4

Interval

Prokoviev - Romeo & Juliet Suite

Conductor : Yuri Temirkanov
Piano : Hélène Grimaud (pictured)

Maestro Yuri Temirkanov and the LSO open their concert with Mussorgsky's calm evocation of dawn over Moscow, drawn from his incomplete opera Khovanschina. There is an abiding calm, too, in Beethoven's Concerto No.4, with its celebrated quiet opening for solo piano and its highly unusual slow movement, in which angry string utterances are gradually appeased by the soloist. The work was long ignored after the composer's death, until the young Felix Mendelssohn rescued it from oblivion in 1836. In the audience on this occasion was Robert Schumann, who was utterly transfixed by the music and later wrote: "I sat in my place without moving a muscle or even breathing."

We revisit Shakespeare's star-cross'd lovers in the second half of the concert for a selection of music from one of the twentieth century's greatest orchestral scores. Prokofiev turned to Romeo and Juliet in 1934 with a view to creating a new ballet for the Leningrad Kirov Theatre, and for a time he and his collaborators seriously considered giving the ballet a happy ending! Fortunately, good sense prevailed, and Romeo and Juliet remains the most powerful and popular of his ballet scores. The musical portraits of Shakespeare's characters and scenes are written so graphically that the music works equally well with or without dancers. The awe-inspiring music for Montagues and Capulets is familiar to all Sunderland football supporters and a perennial favourite with TV advertisers.

Pre-concert Talk
Conference Room 6.45pm Tickets £2 (£1 Subscribers)
Pianist Hélène Grimaud in conversation with one of the players from the London Symphony Orchestra .

To book a subscription to Warwick Arts Centre's Concert Series fill in the booking form (pdf file) here and return it to the Box Office as soon as possible or contact us on 024 7652 4524 for a Subscription Brochure

Individual tickets £8.50, £15, £22, £25.50, £30.50 (Concessions £2 off)