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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Thuille’s late 19th-Century Sextet
June 20, 2024
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine plays the Biber Passacaglia, and Zlatomir Fung joins forces with Zoltan Fejervari to play the Sonata in G minor BWV 1029 by Bach. We’ll also hear Ludwig Thuille’s Sextet for Piano and Winds.
Braunfels & Vivaldi
June 13, 2024
Violinist Jennifer Gilbert is the soloist in the Winter Concerto from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Also included is a work of great depth and emotional power – the String Quintet F-sharp Minor, Op. 63 by Walter Braunfels.
Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht
June 6, 2024
Pianist Juho Pohjonen conveys Ravel's macabre yet gorgeous Gaspard de la Nuit. Plus, the Dover Quartet with special guests Ida Kavafian and Peter Stumpf tackles Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht.
György Ligeti’s Piano Concerto
May 30, 2024
Soloist Kirill Gerstein and an ensemble of all-star festival musicians in a rare and spectacular performance of György Ligeti’s Piano Concerto. Plus, the Miami String Quartet perform Dvořák’s American String Quartet.
Schumann & Handel
May 23, 2024
The trio Sonata in G Major by Handel, and a pair of songs from a vocal recital by Jennifer Johnson Cano with Christopher Cano at the piano. Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E-flat Major Op. 47 rounds out this program.
Chausson’s Concerto in D Major for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet
May 16, 2024
This week, we present a pair of very different works from two French composers. First, two principals from the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra collaborate with Festival first-timer Katia Skanavi. They’ll play Francis Poulenc’s Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano, a work written in 1926 and dedicated to Manuel de Falla. After that, Paul Huang and Zoltán Fejérvári join forces with ...
Chopin & Mozart
May 9, 2024
In Mozart’s time, a divertimento implied a kind of pleasant background music, something to divert one’s attention when you were really doing something else. And yet, Mozart’s monumental Divertimento, K. 563 stands as one of the most profound, substantial pieces of his lifetime. We’ll hear that music performed by Cho-Liang Lin, Yura Lee, and Mark Kosower. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson opens ...
Mozart & Brahms
May 2, 2024
The lush Op. 18 Sextet by Brahms is a highlight on this week’s episode, recorded live at the Santa Fe Chamber Music festival.
Piano Quintet No. 2 in Six Parts
April 25, 2024
Enjoy Ravel’s only string quartet, alongside the second piano quintet from Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Director, Mark Neikrug! This performance was recorded at the 2022 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in Santa Fe.
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.
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.
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”!
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.
