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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2024 AT 4 PM

CARTER BREY, RAFAEL FIGUEROA,
EDWARD ARRON, & ZVI PLESSER, CELLOS
WITH JEEWON PARK, PIANO

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Carter Brey opened the Beethoven Sonata with a jaw-droppingly resonant account of the rich low ascending notes…Brey’s natural eloquence was spotlighted time and again…ocher-toned mastery.”  — The Washington Post

 

Edward Arron displayed a satiny tone and a light, elegant touch…He sang out beautifully.” —  The Cincinnati Post

 

“The solo part showcased the polished and confident playing of Israeli cellist, Zvi Plesser… The most difficult passages were enjoyable both for the ears and the eyes.” — Zoltán Szabó, Bachtrack 

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE

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

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Wheelchair Accessible
 

Free Parking for all concerts

FEATURING

Parlance Chamber Concerts’s 17th season will begin with a joyful “Cellobration” featuring four of the leading cellists of our time. Carter Brey, principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic; Rafael Figueroa, principal cellist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Zvi Plesser, cello professor at The Juilliard School of Music; and renowned solo cellist and chamber musician Edward Arron will be joined by the elegant pianist  Jeewon Park.

 

Their program will highlight the cello’s uniquely rich and flexible musical voice in an afternoon of solos, duos, trios, and quartets by Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Rachmaninoff and others.

PROGRAM

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, arr. for four cellos by Douglas Moore

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Andante from Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 for cello and piano

Zvi Plesser, cello and Jeewon Park, piano

Jean Barrière

Allegro prestissimo from Sonata in G for two cellos

Carter Brey and Edward Arron, cellos

Johann Sebastian Bach

Air from Orchestra Suite No. 3 in D arr. for four cellos

Felix Mendelssohn

Song Without Words in D 

for cello and piano

Rafael Figueroa, cello and Jeewon Park, piano

David Popper

Requiem for three cellos and piano

Rafael Figueroa, Edward Arron, and Zvi Plesser, cellos; Jeewon Park, piano

Frederic Chopin

Polonaise Brillante in C, Op. 3 

for cello and piano

Carter Brey, cello and Jeewon Park, piano

Intermission

Johann Sebastian Bach

Vor deinen Thron tret’ ich hiermit  arr. for four cellos by Finckel Cello Quartet

Ludwig van Beethoven

Seven Variations on Bei Männern from Mozart's Magic Flute for cello and piano

Edward Arron, cello, and Jeewon Park, piano

Georg Friedrich Händel

Sonata in G minor, Op. 2, No. 8

for two cellos and piano

Zvi Plesser and Rafael Figueroa, cellos; Jeewon Park, piano

Georg Goltermann

Serenade Op. 119, No. 2 

for four cellos

Joseph Haydn

Allegro molto from Cello Concerto in C major: Hob. VIIb/1

Watch Carter Brey perform the Scherzo from Chopin’s Sonata for cello and piano in G minor, Opus 65:

Watch Edward Arron perform the 1st movement of Bach’s Prelude to Suite No. 1 in G:

Watch Zvi Plesser perform the 1st movement of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto:

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