Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Thursdays at 9:00 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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An ensemble dressed mostly in white tuxedos performs a Bach violin concert in a chamber music format. The soloist is a white man with white hair. He is standing up: the rest of the ensemble is seated.

Marc Neikrug’s Oboe Quartet in Ten Parts

April 25, 2024, 9:00 pm

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival presents the world premiere of Marc Neikrug’s Oboe Quartet. Also on the program: Bach’s Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042, plus a duet from soprano Ana Maria Martinez and Craig Terry.

A group of six string players sitting in a semi-circle, performing a string sextet by Brahms. The five men are in white suit jackets. The one woman is the first chair violinist and dressed in a purple skirt with a yellow and purple sweater top.

Mozart & Brahms

May 2, 2024, 9:00 pm

The lush Op. 18 Sextet by Brahms is a highlight on this week’s episode, recorded live at the Santa Fe Chamber Music festival.

A group of five men, all in white, are playing a piece of chamber music. The group consists of a violinist, violist, cellist, double bassist, and a pianist.

Ravel & Schubert

April 18, 2024

Harpist Grace Browning joins a super group consisting of Bart Feller, Todd Levy, Rachel Barton Pine, William Hagen, Heiichiro Ohyama, and Felix Fan to perform Ravel’s impressionistic Introduction and Allegro. A stunning performance of Schubert’s wildly popular “Trout” Quintet closes the program.

A group of four men, all in white, are playing a piece of chamber music. The group consists of a 3 cellists and a pianist.

Popper’s Requiem, Op. 66

April 11, 2024

This broadcast opens with a composition by one of the finest cellists of the 19th century – David Popper. Popper wrote his Requiem for an uncommon ensemble featuring three cellos with piano. Next, we have Beethoven’s Septet, Op. 20. Written in 1799 when Beethoven was not yet thirty, this amiable, symphonic Septet convinced Viennese audiences that he was not just ...

Season Premiere: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A Minor

April 4, 2024

The 2024 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series begins with two gorgeous Romantic works: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio, Op. 50, “In Memory of a Great Artist,” a beautiful homage to his friend and mentor Nicolai Rubenstein, preceeded by Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen’s Passacaglia.

Quatour pour la fin du temps

July 27, 2023

Season Finale: Pianist Kirill Gerstein, violinist Leila Josefowicz, cellist Paul Watkins, and clarinetist Carol McGonnell perform Olivier Messiaen’s haunting “Quatour pour la fin du temps” (Quartet for the End of Time).

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5

July 20, 2023

This week, we hear the Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 by Robert Schumann and J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5.

Piano Quintet No. 2 in Six Parts – Premiere

July 13, 2023

Enjoy Ravel’s only string quartet, alongside the second piano quintet from Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Director, Mark Neikrug!

Beethoven’s Double Viola Quintet

July 6, 2023

A 26 year-old Mozart’s take on Bach’s Fugue in E Major BWV 878, and Beethoven’s double viola String Quintet in C Major, Op. 29. Plus, enjoy the New Mexico premiere of a work commissioned for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival: Kaija Saariaho’s “Semafor for Eight Instruments”!

The Miami String Quartet, clad in black and white formalwear, share a laugh

Souvenir de Florence and Songs for Sue

June 29, 2023

A dedication from Oliver Knussen to his late wife, and Tchaikovsky’s romantic reflections on Florence, Italy. Performers include the Miami String Quartet, soprano Tony Arnold, pianist Zoltán Fejérvári, and more.

Bach & Franck

June 22, 2023

The Escher String Quartet joins pianist Zoltán Fejérvári in César Franck’s emotional, demanding Piano Quintet in F Minor. The string quartet also joins John Storgårds, Leigh Mesh, & Kathleen McIntosh in an exciting rendition of Bach’s Double Violin Concerto in D Minor.

Brahms String Quintet in G Major, Op. 111

June 15, 2023

Violinists Daniel Phillips & Jennifer Frautschi join violists Steven Tenenbom & Ida Kavafian, plus cellist Eric Kim, in a beautiful rendition of the Brahms String Quintet in G Major, Op. 111. Also on the program are two works by Claude Debussy: his Sonata in D Minor for Cello and Piano, and L’isle Joyeuse.

Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet

June 8, 2023

The Dover Quartet plays Mozart’s “Dissonance Quartet” – String Quartet in C Major, K. 465. Then later, it’s the Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 67 by Dmitri Shostakovich, performed by Nicolas Namoradze, John Storgårds and Peter Stumpf.

Arensky, Bernstein, and Clara Schumann

June 1, 2023

This week, discover Anton Arensky’s memorial to Tchaikovsky in the form of his Quartet in A Minor for Violin, Viola, and Two Cellos, Op. 35. Also featured on the program: Leonard Bernstein’s first published work, and Clara Schumann’s Three Romances, Op. 22.