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.
There are no upcoming broadcasts at the moment.
Mozart’s Serenade ‘Gran Partita’
April 15, 2020
This performance of Mozart’s serenade for 12 winds and a double bass is conducted by David Zinman.
Brahms, Schubert, and Henri Dutilleux
March 25, 2020
Brahms waltzes for piano four-hands, a Schubert fantasy for violin and piano, and a chamber piece by 20th-century composer Henri Dutilleux.
Walton & Zemlinsky
February 5, 2020
A large ensemble featuring Todd Levy, clarinet, Kajsa William-Olsson, cello, and Gregory Zuber, percussion performs selections from Walton’s Façade: An Entertainment. The Dover Quartet performs Zemlinsky’s String Quartet No. 2.
Scarlatti and Mozart
January 29, 2020
Harpsichordist Paolo Bordignon opens the program with a selection of Scarlatti. Then, a trio made up of Martin Beaver, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; and Eric Kim cello performs a Mozart divertimento.
Dohnányi and Mendelssohn
January 22, 2020
The New York Philharmonic String Quartet performs Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in F Minor.
Haydn and Mozart
January 15, 2020
The Dover Quartet opens the program with a performance of Haydn’s String Quartet in F Minor, and an ensemble featuring clarinetist Anthony McGill concludes the program with Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A Major.
Villa-Lobos and Schubert
January 8, 2020
Pianist Soyeon Kate Lee performs Villa-Lobos’ Chôro No. 5, and the Orion String Quartet performs Schubert’s String Quartet in G.
Mozart and Brahms
January 1, 2020
A Mozart work for celesta, flute, oboe, viola, and cello, and a Brahms string sextet.
Beethoven, Schulhoff, and Vivaldi
September 25, 2018
The Miami String Quartet shares works by Erwin Schulhoff in this week’s program. Host Kerry Frumkin also presents the “Kakadu Variations,” a late piano trio by Beethoven.
Telemann, Kohn, and Tchaikovsky
September 18, 2018
The Dover Quartet gives a magnificent performance of the String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 by Tchaikovsky. This musical hour from Santa Fe also includes a performance by countertenor David Daniels, and the Telemann Concerto in C Major for Four Violins.
Mozart and Bartók
September 11, 2018
The Johannes Quartet plays Mozart’s Second Prussian String Quartet, and the exciting piano duo, Anderson and Roe, participates in Bartok’s Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion.
Beethoven and Bruch
September 4, 2018
This Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival broadcast pairs works by a young genius looking towards the future and an accomplished composer revisiting his past: the Piano Trio, Opus 1 No. 3 by Beethoven and the String Octet by Max Bruch.
