June 23

This week, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival presents a pair of 19th century gems. Longtime Festival collaborator, pianist Kirill Gerstein, opens the program with Robert Schumann’s big romantic sonata, Carnival Scenes from Vienna, in which each of the five movements projects its own mood while conveying the whirling, dancing elements that Schumann witnessed on the streets of Vienna during Carnival. The magnificent Escher String Quartet closes the program with Dvořák’s masterful, late-career String Quartet in A-flat Major, music Dvorák began while living in America and completed, in 1895, after returning to his beloved Czech homeland.