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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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.
Giuliani and Bartók
June 28, 2025
Two contrasting chamber works make up this week’s program. Violinist Danbi Um and guitarist Łukasz Kuropaczewski play the genial Grand duo concertante in A Major by Mauro Giuliani. Later, violinist Yura Lee and pianist George Li deliver the Sonata No. 1 in C# minor by Bela Bartok
Schubert and Schumann
June 21, 2025
Pianist George Li plays the Arabeske in C major by Robert Schumann. Then later, Gilles Vonsattel, Paul Huang, and Peter Stumpf deliver Schubert’s masterful Trio in E-flat Major.
Mieczysław Weinberg’s Piano Quintet
June 14, 2025
Katia Skanavi is the pianist in the immense and powerful Piano Quintet by Mieczysław Weinberg. Rounding out the program is a performance of “Schindler’s List” by violinist Cho-Liang Lin and pianist Jon Kimura Parker.
Brahms and Rameau
June 7, 2025
Paolo Bordignon plays harpiscord in the first of Rameaus’s “Pièces de clavecin”. Pianist Kiril Gerstien, violinists William Hagen and L.P How, violist Milena Pajaro van de Stadt, and cellist Paul Watkins perform the masterful Piano Quintet in F Minor by Brahms.
Water Music and Souvenirs de Voyage
May 31, 2025
This week, Todd Levy and friends play “Souvenirs de Voyage” , the rarely performed clarinet quintet by Bernard Hermann. Also, Harry Bicket leads selections from “Water Music”: the iconic and jubilant soundscape that Handel composed for a river party.
Verdi & Bartók String Quartets
May 24, 2025
Week four of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s 2025-26 broadcast season features two extraordinary string quartets. The Verona Quartet makes its Festival debut performing Giuseppe Verdi’s sole chamber work, the String Quartet in E Minor. Verdi wrote it in Naples, in 1873, during a production delay of his opera Aida. The Verona’s violist, Abigail Rojansky, appreciates the opportunity to ...
Brahms & Mozart
May 17, 2025
For the masterful clarinetist David Shifrin, Mozart’s 1789 Clarinet Quintet sets “a standard that has never been surpassed for great music for the clarinet.” In this edition of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series, David Shifrin joins forces with the Escher String Quartet. Escher cellist Brook Speltz tells us, “I have no problem being hyperbolic about the Mozart ...
Lully & Rachmaninoff Trios
May 10, 2025
In this program, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival presents a Baroque trio sonata meant to lull a king to slumber, and a huge Romantic piano trio written in memory of a great composer. We’ll hear selections from Trios pour le coucher du roi, music Lully wrote in 1679, for chamber musicians to play while Louis XIV prepared for bed. ...
Ligeti & Dvorák Quintets
May 3, 2025
The 2025-26 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series embarks with two very different quintets – Six Bagatelles, an enchanting wind quintet that György Ligeti composed in 1953, and Antonín Dvorák’s 1887 celebration of all things Czech, the Piano Quintet in A Major. Flutist Bart Feller finds Ligeti’s collection of concise pieces quite charming and says, “Later in Ligeti’s career ...
