Ligeti & Dvorák Quintets

The 2025-26 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series embarks with two very different quintets – Six Bagatelles, an enchanting wind quintet that György Ligeti composed in 1953, and Antonín Dvorák’s 1887 celebration of all things Czech, the Piano Quintet in A Major. Flutist Bart Feller finds Ligeti’s collection of concise pieces quite charming and says, “Later in Ligeti’s career he was very complicated and biting into the harmonies. These bagatelles sound like folk material that you would hear in the Hungarian hills.” Dvorák’s Opus 81, one of the most beloved pieces in the chamber music world, marks a first-time collaboration between the highly esteemed pianist Kirill Gerstein and the critically acclaimed Dover Quartet.