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A "once in a lifetime" talent (Toronto Star), violinist Blake Pouliot brings his signature vigor to Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, one of the most dazzling showpieces for the instrument. Zemlinsky's richly orchestrated The Mermaid is a probing psychological work of love lost, written after the composer's own experience of devastating heartbreak.
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor
Zemlinsky: The Mermaid
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Kevin John Edusei, Conductor
Blake Pouliot, Violin
Oregon Symphony
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