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.
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Brahms & Schubert
July 28, 2026
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
July 25, 2026
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 ...
Mendelssohn and Platti
July 21, 2026
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
July 18, 2026
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” ...
Dohnányi and Ravel
July 14, 2026
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 ...
Dohnányi and Ravel
July 11, 2026
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 ...
Bach, Debussy, and Bridge
July 7, 2026
Week 10 of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s 2026 radio series begins as Chad Hoopes and the Dover Quartet’s second violinist, Bryan Lee, play one of Bach’s most cherished works: the incomparable Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, known as the “Bach Double.” Soprano Liv Redpath and her frequent collaborator, pianist George Fu, perform a pair of youthful ...
Bach, Debussy, and Bridge
July 4, 2026
Week 10 of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s 2026 radio series begins as Chad Hoopes and the Dover Quartet’s second violinist, Bryan Lee, play one of Bach’s most cherished works: the incomparable Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, known as the “Bach Double.” Soprano Liv Redpath and her frequent collaborator, pianist George Fu, perform a pair of youthful ...
Telemann & Dvořák
June 30, 2026
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 27, 2026
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 ...
