Brahms & Schubert

The culminating episode holds a masterwork by Brahms and an emotionally powerful song by Schubert. To begin, soprano Liv Redpath sings “Ganymed,” which Schubert based on a poem of the same name by Goethe. The poem tells the story of a handsome youth who’s taken up to heaven on the back of an eagle to become a cupbearer for the gods. Mature music of Brahms brings this 2026 season of performances from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival to a close. Brahms stretches the parameters of the classical form in his Opus 26 Piano Quartet in A Major, a work Festival artistic director Marc Neikrug describes as “beyond beautiful, beyond sumptuous, beyond rich.” For this performance, Neikrug brings together a sublime group of collaborators: pianist Kirill Gerstein, violinist Joel Link, violist Toby Appel, and cellist Camden Shaw.