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12 Oct 2013, The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
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Â鶹Éç Philharmonic 2013-14 Season Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet

Â鶹Éç Philharmonic
Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet
Sat 12 Oct 2013 Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Juanjo Mena conducts the Â鶹Éç Philharmonic in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.
Juanjo Mena conducts the Â鶹Éç Philharmonic in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.

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William Walton came from Oldham - maybe that's why he filled his music with sunlight. Walton's Violin Concerto is an art-deco masterpiece, made of shining steel and great sweeping curves of melody. So when it's played, as tonight, by a true icon of the violin, you'll hear exactly why back in the 1930s this Lancashire lad-made-good left British music reeling. In the USSR, meanwhile, Prokofiev was determined to knock his audiences off their feet.

So forget "The Apprentice": with its tenderness, its passion, and tune after glorious tune, there's a good reason why Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet remains one of the 20th century's best-loved ballets. Malcolm Arnold proves that for raw drama, Manchester's own history can give Shakespeare a run for his money.