Tuesdays at 7pm through August 18
Photo: Mark Holm
The 2026–27 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series brings you a rich mix of beautifully recorded performances from the Festival’s 2025 summer season. Each program features two or three complete works, showcasing the depth and variety of the chamber music repertoire. You’ll hear everything from beloved masterworks to compelling discoveries by lesser-known composers.
2026 Schedule
August 18
The culminating episode holds a masterwork by Brahms and an emotionally powerful song by Schubert. To begin, soprano Liv Redpath sings “Ganymed,” which Schubert based on a poem of the same name by Goethe. The poem tells the story of a handsome youth who’s taken up to heaven on the back of an eagle to become a cupbearer for the gods. Mature music of Brahms brings this 2026 season of performances from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival to a close. Brahms stretches the parameters of the classical form in his Opus 26 Piano Quartet in A Major, a work Festival artistic director Marc Neikrug describes as “beyond beautiful, beyond sumptuous, beyond rich.” For this performance, Neikrug brings together a sublime group of collaborators: pianist Kirill Gerstein, violinist Joel Link, violist Toby Appel, and cellist Camden Shaw.
FRANZ SCHUBERT
“Ganymed,” D. 544 (1817)
Liv Redpath, soprano; George Fu, pianoJOHANNES BRAHMS
Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 26 (1861-62)
Allegro non troppo
Poco adagio
Scherzo: Poco allegro
Finale: Allegro
Kirill Gerstein, piano; Joel Link, violin; Toby Appel, viola; Camden Shaw, cello