Making the classical music repertoire accessible to a huge new audience, the National Symphony Orchestra is bringing its distinctive brand of popular music-making to Arundel Castle when it performs at the town’s annual arts festival on August 23.

The programme will include a medley of popular classics reflecting aspects of ‘Love and War’, ranging from the bombast of a military march to the magic of a fairytale love story waltz.

Arundel castle’s open-air picnic concert will see the orchestra performing under the direction of one of the UK’s most popular conductors, NSO music director Anthony Inglis.

He has conducted four royal concerts and appeared with some of the world’s greatest orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, London Symphony and Israel Philharmonic.

The NSO’s versatility will be on show as it performs a programme of contrasts, ranging from Sousa’s rumbustious march Stars and Stripes Forever to Barber’s meditative Adagio, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s enchanted Arabian Nights fantasy Sheherezade to the opening of the world’s most famous symphony – Beethoven’s Fifth.

There will be a spectacular conclusion to the evening with the rousing 1812 overture by Tchaikovsky, complete with cannons, bells and a firework finale.

Castle gates will be open to concert-going picnickers at 5 p.m. and the concert begins at 7.30 p.m.

How to Enter

Question: What is the name of the conductor for Sunday’s concert?

Email your Place Arundel in the subject header and send your answer, name and address to competitions@theargus.co.uk

The winner will be telephoned on Friday August 21 to arrange delivery of tickets.