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Eckart Preu, Music DirectorJoshua Roman, cello
PROGRAM
Lili Boulanger | D’un matin de printemps
Saint-Saëns | Cello Concerto No. 1
Rachmaninoff | Symphony No. 2
Take a musical journey through lyricism, renewal, and sweeping Romantic expression.
Cellist Joshua Roman—last seen with the PSO in 2018—returns as soloist. Roman brings his extraordinary musicianship and vulnerability to Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto, intensely lyrical, full of elegance, and moments of sheer beauty and emotional warmth.
The concert opens with Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps (“Of a Spring Morning”), a brief but beautifully nuanced work that captures the fleeting energy of spring.
Culminating the program is Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, a landmark in late Romantic music. Written after the crushing failure of his First Symphony and a period of profound self-doubt, the Second Symphony marks a triumphant return of confidence and creative voice. Moving from a broad, expansive and lyrical first movement through to its raucous, energetic finale, it’s music you want to bathe in.
RUN TIME: approximately 2 hrs including intermission
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Event venue
Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St,Portland, Maine, United States
Tickets
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