Park Avenue Baroque

January 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM

Marc Rovetti and Dara Morales, violins; Charles Abramovic, harpsichord; Amy Sue Barston, cello

Park Avenue Concerts invites you to party like it’s 1699 for this concert of Baroque classics, featuring returning favorite performers: keyboardist Charles Abramovic on harpsichord, Philadelphia Orchestra violinists Marc Rovetti and Dara Morales, and Park Avenue Concerts director and Juilliard faculty cellist Amy Sue Barston.

The concert will include gems of Baroque chamber music and will conclude with an inclusive performance of J.S. Bach’s ebullient Double Concerto, in which all members of our community who play violin, viola, or cello are invited to join in and perform alongside our featured performers.

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J.S. BACH: Allegro assai from Sonata No. 3 in C Major
G.F. HANDEL (arr. J. HALVORSEN): Passacaglia
ÉLISABETH JACQUET de la GUERRE: Violin Sonata No. 5
ARCANGELO CORELLI: Sonata da Camera Op. 4, No. 9
ANTONIO VIVALDI: La Folia
J.S. BACH: Vivace from Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor

Winterreise

February 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM

An enchanting performance of Schubert’s haunting masterpiece heard in an uncommonly beautiful setting for voice and string quartet.

Performed by baritone Randall Scarlata and The Dalí Quartet.

FRANZ SCHUBERT: Winterreise

Park Avenue Chamber Ensemble

May 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM

Dara Morales and MuChen Hsieh, violins; Burchard Tang and Kerri Ryan, violas; Priscilla Lee and Amy Sue Barston, cellos

Park Avenue Concerts at the PAC Center closes its 2024-2025season with a performance of one of classical music’s greatest masterworks: theSextet in G Major by Johannes Brahms. Highlighting the apex of Brahms’emotional depth and creative inventiveness, this work harnesses the expressivepowers of its six players without equal in the musical canon. Featuringfavorite performers of the series, this concert includes the Park AvenueConcerts debuts of Philadelphia Orchestra members MuChien Hsieh, Priscilla Lee,and Kerri Ryan. And to start the concert, artistic director Amy Sue Barstonwill perform the lovely Varsha (Rain) by composer Reena Esmail – aninvocation for solo cello composed as a response to Haydn’s mystical SevenLast Words inspired by Hindustani raga that are sung to beckon rain.

REENA ESMAIL: Varsha
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Sextet in G Major

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