The Harry Potter™ Film Concert Series is a phenomenal experience that takes place once a year for two days in the Royal Albert Hall. Varying Harry Potter films are played on a huge screen while the music is replaced with a live performance of the score by a professionally orchestra of top London musicians.
A long walk from High Street Kensington tube station built my anticipation and made the initial sighting of the Royal Albert Hall very pleasing; a magnificent, rotund building which sits staring at its exuberantly decorated twin, the Albert Memorial.
The three-hour journey, once the movie had begun, felt like a dream, with the genius of J.K. Rowling on display in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2, visually accompanied by the mahogany and golden shimmers of the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra grouped below the screen.
The effect of the live orchestra on the sound quality was simultaneously electrifying and passive; giving the soundtrack vigour and life, while at the same time capturing the dynamics, melody, and virtuosic rhythms of Alexandre Desplat’s score to a tee.
If you enjoy live music, or are a Harry Potter fan, you will love this event, and if you are both, it’s, without a doubt, a must-see.
