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Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival features gems from archives

Credit Steven Ovitsky
Lensic Performing Arts Center

Join KTEP Sunday afternoon at 2pm for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.  With the concert cancellations in 2020 due to Covid-19, the 2021-22 syndication series features gems from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival archives.  This provides the opportunity to look ahead to the Festival’s upcoming 50th anniversary by celebrating great performances of the past, and to honor three extraordinary musicians we lost in 2020: pianists Peter Serkin and Leon Fleisher, and cellist Lynn Harrell.  This series runs for 13 weeks on KTEP until the end of November.

Click here for more information about the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2021- SUNDAY 2 PM
John Dowland    “Come, Heavy Sleep” for Tenor & Guitar (1597)
(1563 – 1626)    Paul Appleby, tenor; Meng Su, guitar
    (Performed August 7, 2019 at St. Francis Auditorium)

John Dowland    Pavana lachrymae (ca. 1612) (arr. Wiliam Byrd)
(1563 – 1626)    Peter Serkin, piano
    (Performed August 16, 2016 at St. Francis Auditorium)

Antonín Dvořák    Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 (1887)
(1841 – 1904)    Peter Serkin, piano;  Dover Quartet: Joel Link & Bryan Lee, violins; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Camden Shaw, cello

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021 - SUNDAY 2 PM
Johann Sebastian Bach    Brandenburg No. 6 B-flat Major, BWV 1051 (1721)
(1685 – 1750)    Cynthia Phelps & Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, violas; Clive Greensmith, cello; Ronald Thomas & Eric Kim, playing the viola da gamba parts on cello; Leigh Mesh, double bass; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord
    (Performed August 23, 2014 at Lensic Performing Arts Center)

Antonín Dvořák    String Sextet in A Major, Op. 48 (1878)
(1841 – 1909)    Dover Quartet (Joel Link & Bryan Lee, violins; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Camden Shaw, cello) Steven Tenenbom, viola; Eric Kim, cello

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021 - SUNDAY 2 PM
Franz Josef Haydn    String Quartet in D Minor, Hob. III:76, Op. 76, No. 2, “Fifths” (1797)
(1732 – 1809)    Miami Quartet (Benny Kim, Cathy Meng Robinson, violins; Scott Lee, viola; Keith Robinson, cello)
    (Performed July 16, 2019 at St. Francis Auditorium)

César Franck    Piano Quintet in F Minor, M. 7 (1878-79)
(1822 – 1890)    Kirill Gerstein, piano; Martin Beaver & Benjamin Beilman, violins; Lily Francis, viola; Clive Greensmith, cello

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021 - SUNDAY 2 PM
Béla Bartók    Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano, Sz. 111 (1938)
(1881 - 1945)    Ida Kavafian, violin; Chen Halevi, clarinet;  Kirill Gerstein, piano
    (Performed July 26, 2012 at St. Francis Auditorium)

Sir Edward William Elgar    Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84 (1918-19)
(1857 – 1934)    Jeremy Denk, piano; Tokyo String Quartet (Martin Beaver & Kikuei Ikeda, violins; Kazuhide Isomura, viola; Clive Greensmith, cello)

OCTOBER 3, 2021 - SUNDAY 2 PM

Franz Schubert     String Quartet in C Minor, D. 703, "Quartettsatz" (1820)
(1797 – 1828)    Escher String Quartet (Adam Barnet-Hard, violin; Brendan Speltz, violin, Pierre Lapoint, viola, Brook Speltz, cello)
    (Performed July 23, 2019 at St. Francis Auditorium)

Oliver Knussen    Requiem: Songs for Sue, Op. 33  (2006)

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Knussen Rehearsal

(1952 – 2018)    Tony Arnold, soprano;  Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor;  Bart Feller, flute; Tara Helen O’Connor, alto flute; Chen Halevi & Todd Levy, clarinets; Stephen Ahearn, bass clarinet; Julie Landsman & Julia Pilant, horns; Andrew Russo, piano & celeste; Lynn Gorman DeVelder, harp; David Tolen, percussion; L. P. How & John Largess, violas; Anssi Karttunen & Felix Fan, cellos; Marji Danilow, bass
    (Performed July 27, 2012 at St. Francis Auditorium)

Ludwig Van Beethoven    String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3, “Razumovsky” (1805)
(1770 – 1827)    Orion Quartet (Todd Phillips & Daniel Phillips, violin; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Timothy Eddy, cello)

OCTOBER 10, 2021 - SUNDAY 2 PM
Witold Lutoslawski    Three Fragments for Flute & Harp (1953)
(1913 – 1994)    Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; June Han, harp
    (Performed July 19, 2018 at St. Francis Auditorium)

Franz Schubert    String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 (1828)
(1797 – 1828)    Tokyo String Quartet (Martin Beaver & Kikuei Ikeda, violins; Kazuhide Isomura, viola; Clive Greensmith, cello); Lynn Harrell, cello
    (Performed August 20, 2012 at Lensic Performing Arts Center)

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Todd Levy, clarinet; Brett Dean, viola; Juho Pohjonen, piano

OCTOBER 17, 2021 - SUNDAY 2 PM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart    Trio in E-flat major for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, K. 498, “Kegelstatt” (1786)
(1756 – 1787)     Todd Levy, clarinet; Brett Dean, viola; Juho Pohjonen, piano
    (Performed July 27, 2017 at St. Francis Auditorium)

Anton Arensky     Quartet No. 2 in A Minor for Violin, Viola & Two Cellos, Op. 35, No. 2  (1894)
(1861 - 1906)    Benny Kim, violin; Lily Francis, viola; Eric Kim & Gary Hoffman, cellos
    (Performed August 19, 2010)

OCTOBER 24, 2021 - SUNDAY 2 PM
Johan Sebastian Bach    Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043 (c. 1730)
(1685 – 1750)    Todd Phillips & Daniel Phillips, violin solos; Martin Beaver, violin; Owen Dalby, violin; Steven Tenenbom, viola;  Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello; Mark Tatum, double bass; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord
    (Performed August 5, 2017 at St. Francis Auditorium)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold    Suite for Piano Left Hand, Two Violins, and Cello, Op. 23 (1930)
(1897 – 1957)    Leon Fleisher, piano; Cho Liang Lin & Ariel Shamai, violin; Gary Hoffman, cello
    (Performed in 1999 at St. Francis Auditorium)

OCTOBER 31, 2021 - SUNDAY 2 PM
Szymon Laks    String Quartet No. 5 (1963)
(1901 – 1983)    Dover Quartet ( Joel Link, Bryan Lee, violins; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Camden Shaw, cello)
    (Performed August 16, 2017 at Lensic Performing Arts Center)

Mieczysław Weinberg    Piano Trio, op. 24 (1945)
(1919 - 1996)    Jeremy Denk, piano; Lily Francis, violin; Ronald Thomas, cello
    (Performed July 24, 2011 at St. Francis Auditorium)

NOVEMBER 7, 2021 - SUNDAY 2 PM
Claude Debussy    Cloches à travers les feuilles from Images Series II (1907)
(1862 – 1918)   

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Haochen Zhang, piano

(Performed August 1, 2019 at St. Francis Auditorium)

Franz Schubert    Fantasy in C Major for Violin and Piano, D. 934 (1827)
(1797 – 1828)    Daniel Phillips, violin; Haochen Zhang, piano
    (Performed July 17, 2018 at St. Francis Auditorium)

Franz Schubert    Sonata in A Minor for Arpeggione & Piano, D. 821 (1824)
(1797 – 1828)    Lynn Harrell, cello; Marc Neikrug, piano
    (Performed August 24, 2009 at Lensic Performing Arts Center)

NOVEMBER 14, 2021 - SUNDAY 2 PM

Richard Strauss    “Schlechtes Wetter” Op. 69, No. 5 (1918)
(1864 - 1949)     “Nachtgang” Op. 29, No. 3 (1895)
    “Zueignung” Op. 10, No. 1 (1885)
    Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano; Kirill Gerstein, piano
    (Performed July 24, 2019 at St. Francis Auditorium)

Viktor Ullmann    String Quartet No. 3, Op. 46   (1943)
(1989 - 1944)    Dover Quartet (Joel Link and Bryan Lee, violins; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Camden Shaw, cello)
    (Performed August 28, 2014 at St. Francis Auditorium)

Fritz Kreisler    String Quartet in A Minor  (1921)
(1875 – 1962)    Arnold Steinhardt & Ida Kavafian, violins; Steve Tenenbom, viola; Peter Wiley, cello
    (Performed August 9, 2012 at St. Francis Auditorium)

NOVEMBER 19, 2021 - SUNDAY 2 PM
Antonio Vivaldi    Concerto in F Major for Three Violins, Strings and Continuo, RV 551 (1711)
(1678 – 1741)    Jennifer Gilbert, Harvey de Sousa, & Soovin Kim, solo violins; Guillermo Figueroa & LP How, violins; Margaret Dyer Harris, violas; Kajsa William-Olsson, cello; Leigh Mesh, double bass; Paolo Bordignon, harpsichord
    (Performed August 11, 2018 at Lensic Performing Arts Center)

Leo Ornstein    Piano Quintet, Op. 92 (1927)
(1893 – 2002)    Marc-André Hamelin, piano; Johannes String Quartet: Soovin Kim & Jessica Lee, violins; Choong-Jin Chang, viola; Peter Stumpf, cello
    (Performed August 14, 2015 at St. Francis Auditorium)

NOVEMBER 26, 2021 - SUNDAY 2 PM
Sean Shepherd (B. 1979)    Quartet for Oboe and Strings (2011)  Co-commission by Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and La Jolla Music Society; world premiere
Liang Wang, oboe;  Giora Schmidt, violin; Lily Francis, viola; Felix Fan, cello
    (Performed August 12, 2011)

Johannes Brahms    Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25 (1861)
(1833 – 1897)    Kirill Gerstein, piano, Martin Beaver, violin; Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, viola; Peter Wiley, cello
    (Performed July 24, 2019 at St. Francis Auditorium)

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