On March 2, Garrick Ohlsson returns to the Palm Beach Symphony, playing Sergei Rachmaninoff’s lush and romantic Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, under the baton of Gerard Schwarz. It’s a piece Ohlsson has played to great acclaim all over the world; of his recent performances with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, The Straits Times said, “Ohlsson gave audiences something much subtler and more difficult to achieve: a performance of this most archly Romantic of piano concertos that seemed to efface the interpreter’s ego entirely. […] His mastery was breathtakingly apparent from the very first chords.”

The program also includes Paul Creston Invocation and Dance, Op.58 and Howard Hanson’s ‍Symphony No. 2, Op. 30, “Romantic.”

Ohlsson recorded the Rachmaninoff’s second Piano Concerto in 2007, accompanied by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, under the baton of Sir Neville Marriner. The album, which also features Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, is available from a number of retailers.