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Two trios and a piece for voice and piano.
Works by American composers Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez, George Lewis, and Joan Tower.
Soprano Joélle Harvey and baritone Nikolay Borchev are featured in a survey of Franz Schubert’s vocal output.
The lush Op. 18 Sextet by Brahms is a highlight on this week’s episode, recorded live at the Santa Fe Chamber Music festival.
The quartet is one of the US’s leading ensembles.
Harpist Grace Browning joins a super group consisting of Bart Feller, Todd Levy, Rachel Barton Pine, William Hagen, Heiichiro Ohyama, and Felix Fan to perform Ravel’s impressionistic Introduction and Allegro. A stunning performance of Schubert’s wildly popular “Trout” Quintet closes the program.
This broadcast opens with a composition by one of the finest cellists of the 19th century – David Popper. Popper wrote his Requiem for an uncommon ensemble featuring three cellos with piano. Next, we have Beethoven’s Septet, Op. 20. Written in 1799 when Beethoven was not yet thirty, this amiable, symphonic Septet convinced Viennese audiences that he was not just …
The 2024 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series begins with two gorgeous Romantic works: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio, Op. 50, “In Memory of a Great Artist,” a beautiful homage to his friend and mentor Nicolai Rubenstein, preceeded by Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen’s Passacaglia.
Music by Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, and George Tsontakis.
Exploring the Soviet-Russian composer’s chamber works.
Plus chamber music and ensemble appearances from renowned Chicago artists.
A Britten canticle for countertenor, tenor, and piano; a Dvořák piano trio.
The Quartetto di Cremona performs Schoenberg’s early-20th century Quartet No. 1.
A Franck violin sonata, and Saint-Saëns’ indelible Carnival of the Animals for chamber ensemble.
The Calidore String Quartet presents century-spanning chamber works for four by Franz Schubert, Anton Webern, Anna Clyne, and Leoš Janáček.
Turning point works by Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy, and Brett Dean — whose piece Twelve Angry Men features a dozen cellos.
Spotlighting the incredible range of winds in works by Anton Reicha and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Evolutionary works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Erwin Schulhoff.
An early string quintet by Felix Mendelssohn, plus a violin sonata by JS Bach.
A job application, an overwhelmed orchestra, and a shocking true story behind one of classical music’s best loved works.
The dynamic ensemble performs works by Haydn, Bach, and Shostakovich as well as their crowd-pleasing arrangements of folk music.
Across five flagship programs and two additional special events, the series mines chamber repertoire spanning centuries.
Exploring the relationship between Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Selections by Joseph Haydn and Reynaldo Hahn.