Remembrance Sunday was marked as poignantly as ever by the Worthing Symphony Orchestra with an afternoon concert of music composed in the First World War.
The large screen behind the stage showed scenes from that war and soldier's portraits including Ernest Farrar whose sublime Heroic Elegy opened the programme.
The composer himself was killed in action a few weeks before the Armistice, but his great grand-daughter was in the audience to hear this beautiful but seldom-performed work.
Arthur Bliss fought through the entire war including the Battle Of The Somme and survived. His Piano Concerto takes romantic forms and virtuosity into a more rhythmical and taut, yet still lyrical, soundworld.
The soloist was the young Thai pianist Poom Prommachart, a former winner of the Sussex International Piano Competition.
He was an inspired choice for this work and the audience's enthusiastic response prompted him to play two lengthy Liszt encores, both well suited to this occasion.
Samuel Barber's serene Adagio For Strings often features at memorials and in films, and this performance found a happy blend of clarity and sensibility.
Conductor John Gibbons introduced each work in his usual informal but informative way.
Jan Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony completed the programme.
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