August 12
Mendelssohn, Janáček & Wolf

The culminating episode of the 2024 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series holds music by Wolf, Janáček and Mendelssohn. To begin, baritone Benjamin Appl sings of a yearning for a distant loved one when he and pianist Simon Lepper perform the song “Silent Love” from Wolf’s Eichendorff Lieder. After that, violinist John Storgårds and pianist Kirill Gerstein play Janácek’s World War I era Sonata for Violin and Piano, a work noted for both its urgency and lyricism. When we asked John about the modal harmonies and improvisational feel of Janácek’s music, he observed that “it’s full of fantasy and very Janacek-typical colors, and a certain folkish world that is so special for him.” Lastly, pianist Jon Kimura Parker, violinst Yura Lee, and cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, bring the full season of performances from Santa Fe to its triumphant conclusion with their delivery of Mendelssohn’s superlative D Minor Piano Trio, which Schumann called “the master trio of our time.”