Saturdays at 5:00 pm
Enjoy great chamber works recorded live at the Chamber Music Festival.
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is known for its enduring commitment to tradition, artistic excellence, innovation, and vision. This radio series draws performances from the most recent summer festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Each broadcast hour contains two-to-three works representing the Festival’s commitment to core repertoire, as well as underperformed and newly-composed works. Performers provide commentary about the festival, their experience in Santa Fe, and the music.
Dohnányi and Ravel
Week 11 features two very different early 20th century works, with composers expressing themselves in two very different means. In Ravel’s 1921 Sonata for Violin and Cello, two melodic instruments explore their mutual and individualistic sonorities. Violinist Leila Josefowicz and cellist Paul Watkins join forces in performing Ravel’s entrancing composition, which he wrote in the aftermath of World War I ...
Mendelssohn and Platti
Pairing a baroque-era gem with two late works by Mendelssohn, Week 12 begins with stunning music that isn’t heard often enough: a Trio Sonata composed around 1745 by Bach’s contemporary, Giovanni Benedetto Platti. Platti expands the cello’s role from bass line to a more singing, melodic role, much to the delight of cellist Felix Fan, who enjoyed the “soloistic phrases” ...
Mendelssohn and Platti
Pairing a baroque-era gem with two late works by Mendelssohn, Week 12 begins with stunning music that isn’t heard often enough: a Trio Sonata composed around 1745 by Bach’s contemporary, Giovanni Benedetto Platti. Platti expands the cello’s role from bass line to a more singing, melodic role, much to the delight of cellist Felix Fan, who enjoyed the “soloistic phrases” ...
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 ...
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 ...
