This enchanting evening opens the Portland Chamber Music Festival’s 2024 summer season with pure joy in musical form. The Boccherini Cello Quintet is a Classical-era delight: fun and fresh, balancing gentle tunes (including a famous minuet) with the luxurious heft of lower string sounds. Dvorák’s Romantic quintet for piano and strings radiates grace and warmth, before blossoming into bursts of spontaneous celebration.

Luigi Boccherini String Quintet in E Major, Op. 11, No. 5 (1771)

I. Amoroso

II. Allegro e con spirito

III. Minuetto, Trio

IV. Rondeau, andante

David McCarroll and Jennifer Elowitch, violins; Melissa Reardon, viola; Angela Park and Brant Taylor, cellos

Antonín Dvořák Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81 (1887)

I. Allegro, ma non tanto

II. Dumka: Andante con moto

III. Scherzo (Furiant): Molto vivace

IV. Finale: Allegro

Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu and David McCarroll, violins; Melissa Reardon, viola; Brant Taylor, cello; Henry Kramer, piano

* Programs and artists subject to change

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For complete program and artist information, visit the Portland Chamber Music Festival web site at pcmf.org.

RUN TIME: 75 min with no intermission