Pre-concert lecture at 7:15 PM in the lower lobby.

Oriol Sans, conductor.

This UPO concert opens with Bright Sheng’s Prelude and Black Swan, a lush and colorful orchestration of Brahms’ Intermezzos op. 118, nos. 1 and 2 for piano, followed by another work originally written for that same instrument, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring soloist Hidemi Minagawa. The second half of the concert features Schumann’s first symphonic work, his beaming Symphony No. 1, the ¨Spring” Symphony,” an unprecedented example of exquisite balance between musical intensity and formal clarity.