Thursdays at 8:00 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.
There are no upcoming broadcasts at the moment.
Chamber Orchestra Paragons by Stravinsky and Takemitsu
June 1, 2022
Alan Gilbert conducts cornerstone chamber orchestra works by Toru Takemitsu and Igor Stravinsky before the program is rounded out with Max Bruch’s Piano Quintet in G Minor.
Schoenberg & Beach
May 25, 2022
Two works written continents apart but completed within a year of each other: Arnold Schoenberg’s Second Chamber Symphony (1908) and Amy Beach‘s Piano Quintet in F-sharp Minor (1907).
Cavallini Duet, Brahms Sextet
May 18, 2022
First, we hear two clarinets in a piece by Ernesto Cavallini, then, we hear three pairs of instruments — violins, violas, and cellos — in a sextet by Johannes Brahms.
Neikrug & Hahn
May 11, 2022
We hear two quintets: a clarinet quintet by contemporary composer Marc Neikrug, and a piano quintet by Reynaldo Hahn.
Schubert Octet
May 4, 2022
Season Premiere: Franz Schubert‘s resounding Octet in F Major makes for a sublime opening to the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival broadcast season.
Sean Shepherd & Brahms
June 30, 2021
A Sean Shepherd quartet (a world premiere co-commission by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival); a Brahms piano quartet.
Strauss, Ullmann, & Kreisler
June 16, 2021
Three songs by Strauss; an Ullmann string quartet; a Kreisler string quartet.
Debussy & Schubert
June 9, 2021
Music by Debussy for solo piano; two works by Schubert for violin and piano and cello and piano.
Mozart & Arensky
May 19, 2021
A Mozart trio; an Arensky quartet. This week’s Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival broadcast will begin 15-or-more minutes later than its usual 9:00 pm start time because of the extended duration of the preceding Music of the Baroque program.
Lutosławski & Schubert
May 12, 2021
Music for flute and harp by Lutosławski; a Schubert string quintet.
Schubert, Knussen, & Beethoven
May 5, 2021
A Schubert string quartet, a Knussen requiem, and a Beethoven string quartet.
Dowland and Dvořák
April 7, 2021
Season premiere: music for tenor and guitar, solo piano, and piano quintet.