SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2024 AT 4 PM
MODIGLIANI QUARTET
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
The Paris-based Modigliani Quartet occupies the upper echelon of today’s string quartets. In addition to their annual tours in the United States and in Asia, the quartet’s European tours have brought inspired acclaim in the major concert halls of London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and Saint Petersburg.
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
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January 19, 2025
The Virtuoso Organist
Paul Jacobs
February 9, 2025
The Virtuoso Cellist
​Steven Isserlis
March 9, 2025
Ravel’s 150th Birthday Concert
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April 13, 2025
Quartetto Di Cremona
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May 18, 2025
Late Night With Leonard Bernstein
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LOCATION
At West Side Presbyterian Church
6 South Monroe Street
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
For map and directions, click here.
CONCERT AMENITIES
Wheelchair Accessible
Free Parking for all concerts
FEATURING
MODIGLIANI QUARTET
Amaury Coeytaux, violin; Loïc Rio, violin; Laurent Marfaing, viola; François Kieffer, cello
​“ The Modigliani quartet clearly belongs to the world’s greatest “ — Le Monde (Paris)
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“ A gripping and persuasive performance, played with awesome individual and communal brilliance ” — The Strad (London)
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“One of today’s best quartets in the world...Balance, transparency, symphonic comprehension, confident style, their performance reached a very high and inspiring level ” — Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich)
The elite French ensemble will perform a wide-ranging program that will include Joaquín’s Turina’s lushly impressionistic La oración de torero (The Bullfighter’s Prayer), Brahms’s tenderhearted Quartet in B-flat, Op. 67, and Beethoven’s sublime Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2. His student, Carl Czerny, wrote that the second movement “occurred to Beethoven while he was contemplating the starry sky and thinking of the music of the spheres.”
PROGRAM
Joaquín’s Turina
La oración de torero (The Bullfighter’s Prayer)
Johannes Brahms
String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 67
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2