Our programme ‘A Night at the Cinema’ brings you some of the very best, orchestral film music which will transport you from the concert hall through time and place.

John Williams and Hans Zimmer are amongst the most famous composers of film music. Their music amplifies the drama and helps drive a story. Come and listen to ‘Hedwig’s theme’ and ‘Harry’s Wondrous World’ amongst the stunning music that Williams wrote for the Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone. Then make sure you are safely seated as we enter Jurassic Park. Zimmer’s music for the Pirates of the Caribbean films is a swashbuckling, orchestral masterpiece.

Experience an emotional contrast with Anne Dudley’s Cornish folk-inspired Poldark Suite and the Max Richter’s meditative On the Nature of Daylight which was recently used in the film Hamnet.

These contemporary film scores owe a great deal to trailblazers from an earlier era in British filmmaking and so we feature two of these ‘period’ film scores. William Walton’s Suite from Henry V portrays the pomp, intrigue and tragedy of the English Tudor court. Doreen Carwithen’s Suffolk Suite develops musical material originally written for the film East Anglian Holiday, a nostalgic travelogue produced by British Transport Films in 1954.

Feel free to come in costume!