From the foothills of New Mexico comes this series of concerts from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, one of the world's leading performing arts festivals for nearly half a century. Host Kerry Frumkin and artistic director Marc Neikrug provide insightful commentary and interviews.
Alfredo Piatti: Serenade
Nicholas Canellakis and Joseph Johnson, cello; Inon Barnatan, piano
Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Orion String Quartet; Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Kristen Bruya, bass; Kathleen McIntosh,
harpsichord
Josef Suk: Serenade for Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 6
Kurt Weill: "Song von Mandelay" and "Die Ballade von der Hollen-lili"
HK Gruber, chansonnier; Kirill Gerstein, piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Horn Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 407
Stefan Dohr, horn; Paul Huang, violin; Carla Maria Rodrigues and Brett Dean, violas; Peter Stumpf, cello
HK Gruber: Frankenstein!!
Guillermo Figueroa, conductor; HK Gruber, chansonnier
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Jennifer Gilbert, violin; Eric Kim, cello; Carol McGonnell, clarinet; Ran Dank, piano
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, Hob. III:76 "Fifths"
Dover Quartet
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
Dover Quartet; Haochen Zhang, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36
Ran Dank, piano
Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8
Montrose Trio
Alessandro Marcello: Oboe Concerto in C minor
Liang Wang, oboe; L.P. How and Daniel Jordan, violins; Theresa Rudolph, viola; Joseph Johnson, cello; Mark Tatum, double bass; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord
Alban Berg: Chamber Concerto
Elizabeth Ogonek: Lightenings
Julianne Lee, violin; Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet; Juho Pohjonen, piano; Jeffrey Cornelius, percussion
Ludwig Van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127
Orion String Quartet