top of page

SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2025 AT 4 PM

CELEBRATE RAVEL’S 150th BIRTHDAY!
ERIKA BAIKOFF, SOPRANO
SOOHONG PARK, PIANO

2024-2025

SEASON
 

September 29, 2024
Cellobration!

 

October 20, 2024
Modigliani Quartet
 

November 17, 2024
Paul Lewis Plays Schubert 

December 15, 2024
The Virtuoso Flutist
Denis Bouriakov

​​

January 19, 2025
The Virtuoso Organist
Paul Jacobs


February 9, 2025

The Virtuoso Cellist
​Steven Isserlis


March 9, 2025
Ravel’s 150th Birthday Concert 

​​
April 13, 2025
Quartetto Di Cremona
​

May 18, 2025
Late Night With Leonard Bernstein

​

 

​Artist Roster
 

Parlance Program Notes
 

LOCATION

At West Side Presbyterian Church
6 South Monroe Street
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
For map and directions, 
click here.
 

CONCERT AMENITIES

wheel-chair.jpg
parking.jpg

Wheelchair Accessible
 

Free Parking for all concerts

FEATURING

“As Barbarina in the Met’s Le Nozze di Figaro, soprano Erika Baikoff made the most of her moment to shine. When staged simply and sung so beautifully, as it was here, Barbarina’s short aria, ‘L’ho perduta…me meschina’, is one of the brightest musical gems in the opera.” — Seen and Heard International

 

"What sounds like easy playing in both senses of the word actually requires not only extraordinary technique but also a sensitive feeling for the breaks and depths of Schumann's music. Only a few people can do this really well, like pianist Soohong Park, the gold medal winner of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama” — Die Glocke, Germany. 

Celebrate the musical genius of Maurice Ravel on the 150th anniversary of his birth. The beguiling Russian-American soprano Erika Baikoff will collaborate the stellar Korean pianist Soohong Park in an afternoon of Ravel’s most alluring songs and ravishing piano solos.

​

Throughout his life, Ravel drew inspiration from legends, poetry, and exotic locales. Erika and Soohong’s recital will journey across the musical landscapes of Greece, Spain, and Asia. Along the way, they will perform two of Ravel’s most beloved melodies, the poignant Pavane for a Dead Princess and the sinuous Vocalise in the Form of a Habanera

​

Another high point of the afternoon will be Soohong Park’s performance of Ravel’s dazzling triptych, Gaspard de la nuit, widely considered to be one of the most fearsomely challenging piano piece ever written. Ravel created fantastical musical images of the water-princess Undine, slowly twisting gallows in the setting sun, and the maniacally pirouetting goblin Scarbo. 

​

Bon anniversaire, Monsieur Ravel!

PROGRAM

Maurice Ravel

Cinq mélodies populaires grecques for soprano and piano

Program Notes

Maurice Ravel

Pavane pour une infante défunte for piano

Program Notes

Maurice Ravel

Vocalise Etude en forme de habanera for soprano and piano.

Program Notes

Maurice Ravel

Deux Mélodies hébraïques I. Kaddisch, II. L'Enigme éternelle for soprano and piano

Program Notes

Maurice Ravel

Le Tombeau de Couperin for piano

Program Notes

INTERMISSION

Maurice Ravel

Two Songs  Program Notes

Manteau de fleurs for soprano and piano

Ballade de la reine morte d’aimer for soprano and piano

Program Notes

Maurice Ravel

Gaspard de la nuit for piano

Program Notes

Maurice Ravel

Shéherazade for soprano and piano

Program Notes

Watch Erika Baikoff and Soohong Park’s mesmerizing performance of Schubert’s Nacht und Träume, D. 827:

Watch Erika Baikoff and Soohong Park perform Schubert’s Frühlingsglaube, D.686:

bottom of page