Brand new recordings, including music about resistance.

Contemporary composers explore textures that can only be achieved with small ensembles.

Throughout his life, Shostakovich wrote a total of 15 works for string quartets. He also wrote a number of works for other instrument chamber groups, including song cycles, sonatas, and more. Tonight’s program pairs Shostakovich’s Quartet no. 13 in B minor with a rarely heard song cycle. From Jewish Folk Poetry takes inspiration from a collection of Jewish folk songs published …

Sounds of Vienna from two of the city’s most famous Romantic composers: Franz Schubert and Ludwig van Beethoven.

From the serene to the upbeat, this stockingful of 2025 Christmas albums will fill your festivities with joy and wonder.

A double dose of Mozart! First, pianists Gloria Chien and Michael Brown perform the Andante and Five Variations in G Major. Then later, Mozart’s Divertimento in E-flat Major for Violin, Viola and Cello interpreted by Arnaud Sussmann, Paul Neubauer and David Finckel.

The Artistic Directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, David Finckel and Wu Han, take center stage to perform Debussy’s gorgeous, plaintive Sonata for Cello and Piano. Then later, Ernest Chuasson’s Concerto in D Major for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet.

It is of little surprise that some of the most beautiful works for small chamber group and voice come from the Romantic Era. Two such works are paired together on this program. First, Gabriel Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson for Mezzo-Soprano, Two Violins, Viola, Cello, Bass, and Piano, Op. 61,  showcases mezzo-soprano Meigui Zhang soaring above a wandering, winding instrumental underscore. …

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.

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.

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.

In the 21st century classical landscape, more and more composers are stepping away from large symphonic writing and diving into the ways one can make effective and meaningful sounds with smaller ensembles. Join the hosts for a playlist of great chamber works!

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 …

The works on this program were born out of the emotions experienced moving into a new stage of life while still mourning the previous one — emotions captured well by the two French composers featured. César Franck’s childhood was one defined by his father who pushed him into a world of music and performing that, while showcased his budding talent, …

Travel across the world in the space of an hour on this program, with music by Jean Françaix, Paul Schoenfield, and Sergei Prokofiev.

Franz Schubert packed an unbelievable amount of composing into his 31 years.

Both Alban Berg and Johannes Brahms hail from the Viennese school of classical composing and the works -featured on this program showcase the strength and musicality that came out of that period.

Quartets by Mozart and Haydn, plus a wind setting of excerpts from Don Giovanni.

Works by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Maurice Ravel.

Energetic simplicity, beautifully spun melodies, and formal clarity.

Music by Ned Rorem and William Bolcom, both of whom trained with and took plenty of inspiration from their French predecessors and yet wrote distinctly American works.

Louis Spohr’s landmark Nonetto and the bite-sized Bagatelles of György Ligeti.

In the 21st century classical landscape, more and more composers are stepping away from large symphonic writing and diving into the ways one can make effective and meaningful sounds with smaller ensembles. Join the hosts for a playlist of great chamber works!

Works embodying the more private, personal, and experimental facets of Shostakovich’s musicianship.

A program of Beethoven featuring his works for Strings and Piano.