Beethoven’s Opus 132: a string quartet.

Pianist Gilbert Kalish, violinist Nicolas Dautricourt, violist Yura Lee, and cellist Keith Robinson join forces for this landmark — and longform — chamber piece.

Music from Hungary (by Zoltán Kodály) and Czechia (by Antonín Dvořák).

The inaugural 2024-2025 season contains four concerts taking place on Wednesday over the course of the year. The debut season boasts six world premieres.

Works by Arvo Pärt, Zosha Di Castri, and Alfred Schnittke.

Two works, 120 years apart.

English and American composers.

Works from Finland by pianist, conductor, and composer Olli Mustonen and the father of Finnish music, Jean Sibelius.

Contemplative works by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, and Prokofiev.

Diverse instrumentation for singular sounds. Music by Debussy, Saint-Saëns, and Milhaud.

Sounds of the early 20th century!

Two trios and a piece for voice and piano.

Plus chamber music and a live score for a silent film.

Jubilant works by Felix Mendelssohn and Antonín Dvořák.

Works by American composers Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez, George Lewis, and Joan Tower.

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.

Soprano Joélle Harvey and baritone Nikolay Borchev are featured in a survey of Franz Schubert’s vocal output.

Across four programs, performers including violinist Paul Huang, pianist Alessio Bax, and the festival’s co-founders explore a range of chamber music rep.

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.

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.

The lush Op. 18 Sextet by Brahms is a highlight on this week’s episode, recorded live at the Santa Fe Chamber Music festival.

The quartet is one of the US’s leading ensembles.

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.

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 …

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.