CELLOBRATION! 
CARTER BREY, CELLO
RAFAEL FIGUEROA, CELLO
EDWARD ARRON, CELLO
ZVI PLESSER, CELLO
JEEWON PARK, PIANO
 

Parlance Chamber Concerts’s 17th season will begin joyfully on September 29 with a “Cellobration” spotlighting four of today’s leading cellists. Carter Brey, principal of the New York Philharmonic; Rafael Figueroa, principal of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Zvi Plesser, professor at The Juilliard School; and the versatile soloist and chamber musician Edward Arron will join forces in a rich selection of cello solos and ensembles by Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Chopin, Mendelssohn, 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

Jean Barrière: Allegro prestissimo from Sonata in G major for two 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

David Popper: Requiem for three cellos and piano

Frederic Chopin: Polonaise Brillante in C, Op. 3  for cello and 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

Georg Friedrich Händel: Sonata in G minor, Op. 2, No. 8 for two cellos and piano

Georg Goltermann: Serenade Op. 119, No. 2  for four cellos 

Joseph Haydn Concerto: in C, Hob. VIIIb/1  arr. for four cellos by Douglas Moore