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.
Telemann & Dvořák
June 27, 2026, 5:00 pm
The tradition of using music to accompany banquets and feasts is probably as old as music itself, but that didn’t limit Telemann to composing musical wallpaper. On the contrary, Telemann’s Quartet in G Major from Tafelmusik is spirited, bright, and brilliantly crafted. To oboist Frank Rosenwein, “Telemann is like Bach – an incredible watchmaker. He can create really intricate structures ...
Telemann & Dvořák
June 30, 2026, 11:00 pm
The tradition of using music to accompany banquets and feasts is probably as old as music itself, but that didn’t limit Telemann to composing musical wallpaper. On the contrary, Telemann’s Quartet in G Major from Tafelmusik is spirited, bright, and brilliantly crafted. To oboist Frank Rosenwein, “Telemann is like Bach – an incredible watchmaker. He can create really intricate structures ...
Ligeti & Brahms
June 23, 2026
This wide-ranging program brings together two very distinctive trios for horn, violin, and piano. Each expresses archetypal music from two very different yet important and idiosyncratic composers. In both pieces, we have exceptional performances from the Berlin Philharmonic’s principal horn, Stefan Dohr, the American violinist William Hagen, and the magnificent pianist Kirill Gerstein. Gerstein brings out the lyrical aspects in ...
Ligeti & Brahms
June 20, 2026
This wide-ranging program brings together two very distinctive trios for horn, violin, and piano. Each expresses archetypal music from two very different yet important and idiosyncratic composers. In both pieces, we have exceptional performances from the Berlin Philharmonic’s principal horn, Stefan Dohr, the American violinist William Hagen, and the magnificent pianist Kirill Gerstein. Gerstein brings out the lyrical aspects in ...
Coll & Dvorák
June 16, 2026
Stellar pianist Kirill Gerstein opens this Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival broadcast with a new work called Waltzes Toward Civilization, which the award-winning Spanish composer Francisco Coll wrote especially for him. After the Coll, we have a piece Schubert composed for what was, in 1824, a brand-new instrument. Today, the arpeggione – a kind of cross between a cello and ...
Coll & Dvorák
June 13, 2026
Stellar pianist Kirill Gerstein opens this Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival broadcast with a new work called Waltzes Toward Civilization, which the award-winning Spanish composer Francisco Coll wrote especially for him. After the Coll, we have a piece Schubert composed for what was, in 1824, a brand-new instrument. Today, the arpeggione – a kind of cross between a cello and ...
Anderson & Enescu
June 9, 2026
This musical hour from Santa Fe includes virtuosic interpretations of three distinct and deeply innovative compositions. There came a time during the 19th century when the cello escaped its identity as an accompaniment instrument playing a bass line and became more of a starring member of an ensemble. In his Serenade for Two Cellos and Piano, the Italian composer and ...
Anderson & Enescu
June 6, 2026
This musical hour from Santa Fe includes virtuosic interpretations of three distinct and deeply innovative compositions. There came a time during the 19th century when the cello escaped its identity as an accompaniment instrument playing a bass line and became more of a starring member of an ensemble. In his Serenade for Two Cellos and Piano, the Italian composer and ...
Dvořák & Schumann
June 2, 2026
This week, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival presents a pair of 19th century gems. Longtime Festival collaborator, pianist Kirill Gerstein, opens the program with Robert Schumann’s big romantic sonata, Carnival Scenes from Vienna, in which each of the five movements projects its own mood while conveying the whirling, dancing elements that Schumann witnessed on the streets of Vienna during ...
Dvořák & Schumann
May 30, 2026
This week, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival presents a pair of 19th century gems. Longtime Festival collaborator, pianist Kirill Gerstein, opens the program with Robert Schumann’s big romantic sonata, Carnival Scenes from Vienna, in which each of the five movements projects its own mood while conveying the whirling, dancing elements that Schumann witnessed on the streets of Vienna during ...
Beethoven & Grainger
May 26, 2026
Week four of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s 2026-27 broadcast season holds three virtuosic showpieces from the early years of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Violinist Chad Hoopes and pianist Katia Skanavi perform Beethoven’s monumental and groundbreaking Kreutzer Sonata, which the composer described as being “almost like a concerto.” Before that, percussion virtuoso Colin Currie—hailed as “the world’s ...
Beethoven & Grainger
May 23, 2026
Week four of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s 2026-27 broadcast season holds three virtuosic showpieces from the early years of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Violinist Chad Hoopes and pianist Katia Skanavi perform Beethoven’s monumental and groundbreaking Kreutzer Sonata, which the composer described as being “almost like a concerto.” Before that, percussion virtuoso Colin Currie—hailed as “the world’s ...
Bach & Enescu
May 19, 2026
In this edition of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series, Joel Link – first violinist of the Dover Quartet and concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra – brings J. S. Bach’s immaculate and vibrant Violin Concerto in A Minor to life. “One of the wonderful things about Bach as an artist and as a creator,” declares harpsichordist Paolo Bordignon, ...
Bach & Enescu
May 16, 2026
In this edition of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series, Joel Link – first violinist of the Dover Quartet and concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra – brings J. S. Bach’s immaculate and vibrant Violin Concerto in A Minor to life. “One of the wonderful things about Bach as an artist and as a creator,” declares harpsichordist Paolo Bordignon, ...
Bartók & Boccherini
May 12, 2026
In this program, pianist Juho Pohjonen contemplates Olivier Messiaen’s 1944 Le Baiser de l’enfant-Jésus (The Kiss of the Infant Jesus), a rapt, slow episode for solo piano that treats the “Theme of God” as a berceuse, or lullaby. The Dover Quartet’s cellist, Camden Shaw, enjoys the role of soloist as he inhabits the courtly, agreeable, and lush Cello Concerto in ...
Bartók & Boccherini
May 9, 2026
In this program, pianist Juho Pohjonen contemplates Olivier Messiaen’s 1944 Le Baiser de l’enfant-Jésus (The Kiss of the Infant Jesus), a rapt, slow episode for solo piano that treats the “Theme of God” as a berceuse, or lullaby. The Dover Quartet’s cellist, Camden Shaw, enjoys the role of soloist as he inhabits the courtly, agreeable, and lush Cello Concerto in ...
Rachmaninoff & Shostakovich [Repeat]
May 5, 2026
A repeat of the 2025-26 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio program from Saturday May 2, 2025.
Rachmaninoff & Shostakovich
May 2, 2026
The 2025-26 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series launches with three tour de force performances of works from the early and mid-20th century. Kirill Gerstein interprets the considerable melodic gifts of Sergei Rachmaninoff as he performs the composer’s arrangement of one of his own popular songs, the gentle yet lamenting, “Lilacs.” Dohnányi’s Serenade in C Major is scored for ...
Season Finale: Wolf, Janáček, and Mendelssohn
July 26, 2025
The broadcast season finale from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival begins with baritone Benjamin Appl singing ‘Silent Love’ from Wolf’s Eichendorff Lieder. John Storgårds and Kirill Gerstein perform Janáček’s Sonata for Violin and Piano. Then, pianist Jon Kimura Parker, violinist Yura Lee, and cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan round off the program with the D minor Piano Trio by Mendelssohn.
Dvořák & Zelenka
July 19, 2025
This week features the harmonic inventiveness of two pivotal Czech composers. It’s a musical hour that holds Dvořák’s String Sextet in A Major, with its lively melodies and dances, and a Baroque Trio Sonata for Oboe, Bassoon, Violin, and continuo by Zelenka.
Bach and Golijov
July 12, 2025
Clarinetist Todd Palmer and the Verona Quartet perform “The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind” by Osvaldo Golijov – a piece that mixes classical music with klezmer. Plus, pianist Gilles Vonsattel joins five virtuosic string players in the Keyboard Concerto in E Major by Bach.
Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky
July 5, 2025
On our next musical hour, flautist Tara Helen O’Connor and pianist Ran Dank deliver a virtuosic interpretation of the Flute Sonata by Prokofiev. Then later, the Dover Quartet plays Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet in D Major, whose famous second movement was said to have moved the novelist Leo Tolstoy to tears.
