SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
2008 NATIONAL RADIO SERIES

Hear great performances from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival now through September on our national broadcasts, produced and distributed by the WFMT Radio Network. The 13-week series reflects the Festival’s varied repertoire by presenting superbly recorded concerts and recitals by today’s finest musical artists.

The broadcasts include not only favorite classics of the chamber music repertoire, but also outstanding, though less well-known gems. The music you’ll enjoy includes:

BEETHOVEN: Quintet for Piano & Winds and String Quartet No.16
HK GRUBER: Frankenstein!! with composer/chansonnier and the Festival Ensemble
Songs by ALMA MAHLER & CLARA SCHUMANN with mezzo-soprano Susanne Mentzer
MENDELSSOHN: Octet with an all-star Festival Ensemble led by Pinchas Zukerman
MESSIAEN: Quartet for the End of Time
MOZART: Divertimento for Horns & Strings
WYNTON MARSALIS: Meelaan with bassoonist Milan Turkevic and the Miró Quartet
POPPER: Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano
TCHAIKOVSKY: Trio in A Minor with Pinchas Zukerman, Gary Hoffman &
Jon Kimura Parker

On the roster of performers are pianists Yefim Bronfman, Wu Han, Jon Nakamatsu & Yuja Wang; cellists Lynn Harrell, David Finckel, Eric Kim, Ralph Kirshbaum, Peter Wiley & Amanda Forsyth; violist Michael Tree; flutist, Tara Helen O’Connor; oboists Allan Vogel & Liang Wang; the Orion String Quartet, and the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio.

WFMT’s Kerry Frumkin hosts the series, and for the most part, each broadcast contains commentary from Artistic Director, Marc Neikrug, and some of the musicians, too.
   Since all of the conversation can’t fit in each program, you can hear more at http://www.wfmt.com/main.taf?p=1,1,41,49 or by clicking on the links following each program.

Please check your local classical music radio station for details and broadcast times, or, if this series is not being aired in your area, ask your local station to contact the WFMT Radio Network.

Program schedule

WEEK 1
POULENC, Sonata for Oboe & Piano (1962)
Allan Vogel, oboe; Marc Neikrug, piano

FELIX MENDELSSOHN, Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 (1825)
Pinchas Zukerman, Viviane Hagner, violin; Michael Tree, viola; Amanda Forsyth, cello; Miró String Quartet: Daniel Ching and Sandy Yamamoto, violins; John Largess, viola; Joshua Gindele, cello
 Hear artists’ comments

WEEK 2
LUDWIG THUILLE, Sextet in B flat for Piano and Winds, Op. 6
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Liang Wang, oboe; Ricardo Morales, clarinet; Milan Turkovic, bassoon; Julie Landsman, French horn; Jon Nakamatsu, piano

BEETHOVEN, String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135
Orion String Quartet: Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, Steven Tenenbom, Timothy Eddy
 Hear artists’ comments

WEEK 3
STRAVINSKY, Suite Italienne from Pulcinella
Lynn Harrell, cello; Yuja Wang, piano

HANDEL, Mi palpita il cor
Courtenay Budd, soprano; Allan Vogel, oboe; Lynn Harrell, cello; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord

JOSEF SUK, 4 Pieces for Violin & Piano, Op. 17
Pinchas Zukerman, violin; Marc Neikrug, piano
 Hear artists’ comments

WEEK 4
ZELENKA, Trio Sonata No. 4 in G Minor for Two Oboes, Bassoon & Continuo
Liang Wang and Margaret Butler, oboes; Milan Turkovic, bassoon; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord, Marji Danilow, Bass

GLUCK, Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orpheus and Euridice
Yuja Wang, piano

ARENSKY, Piano Trio no.1, d minor
Soovin Kim, violin; David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano
 Hear artists’ comments

WEEK 5
RAVEL, Ma mere l'Oye, Four Hands
Marc Neikrug, piano; Victor Santiago Asuncion, piano

HK GRUBER, Frankenstein!!, a pan-demonium for chansonnier & ensemble
HK Gruber, chansonnier; Bart Feller, piccolo; Todd Levy, clarinet; Bill Barnewitz, horn; Stefanie Przybylska, bassoon; Charley Lea trumpet; David Tolen percussion; Giora Schmidt, LP How, violin; Carla-Maria Rodrigues viola; Zuill Bailey cello; Marji Danilow doublebass; Victor Santiago Asuncion piano; Jeffrey Milarsky conductor.
 Hear artists’ comments and explore web extras

WEEK 6
WYNTON MARSALIS, Meeelaan
Milan Turkevic, bassoon; Miró String Quartet (Daniel Ching, Sandy Yamamoto, violins; John Largess, viola; Joshua Gindele, cello).

BEETHOVEN, Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano & Winds, Op. 16
Liang Wang oboe; Ricardo Morales clarinet; Julie Landsman, french horn; Milan Turkovic, bassoon; Jon Nakamatsu, piano

BACH, Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043
Pinchas Zukerman, Vivianne Hagner, Daniel Ching, L.P. How, Sandy Yamamoto, Amaury Coeytaux, violin; John Largess, Lily Francis, viola; Joshua Gindele, Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Marji Danilow, double bass; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord
 Hear artists’ comments and explore web extras

WEEK 7
VIVALDI, Concerto for Two Oboes in D Minor, Opus 42, No.2
Liang Wang and Margaret Butler, oboes; Daniel Ching, L.P. How, Sandy Yamamoto,& Amaury Coeytaux, violins; John Largess, & Lily Francis, violas; Joshua Gindele & Nicholas Canellakis, celli; Marji Danilow, double bass; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord

DEBUSSY, Syrinx for Solo Flute
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute

CRUMB, An Idyll for the Misbegotten for amplified flute & percussion
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Gregg Koyle, David Tolen, Jeffrey Cornelius, percussion

MENDELSSOHN, Piano Trio in C-minor #2
The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio: Joseph Kalichstein, piano; Jaime Laredo, violin; and Sharon Robinson, cello

WEEK 8
Alma MAHLER, Songs: Licht in der Nacht—Light in the Night (text by Otto Julius Bierbaum; Die stille stadt—The Quiet Town (text by Richard Dehmel;) Laue Sommernacht—In Summer’s Warm Night Sky (text by Gustav Falke;) Bei dir ist es traut—With You I Feel Secure (text by Rainer Maria Rilke;) and Ich wandle unter Blumen—I Wander Among the Flowers (text by Heinrich Heine) Susanne Mentzer, Mezzo-Soprano, Craig Rutenberg, Piano

MOZART, Divertimento No. 17 in D Major, KV 334
Giora Schmidt, violin; L.P. How, violin; Carla-Maria Rodriguez, viola; Zuill Bailey, cello; Marji Danilow, double bass; Julie Landsman, horn; William Barnewitz, horn

WEEK 9
BACH, Suite for Orchestra No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; L.P. How, Kathleen Brauer, violin; Kirsten Johnson, viola; Mark Brandfonbrener, cello; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord; Marji Danilow, double bass

BEETHOVEN, String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2 “Rasumovsky”
Orion String Quartet: Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, Steven Tenenbom, Timothy Eddy

WEEK 10
KREBS, Fantasia in F Minor for Oboe & Organ
Allan Vogel, oboe; David Schrader, organ

MESSIAEN, Quartet for the End of Time
Soovin Kim, violin; Todd Levy, clarinet; Peter Stumpf, cello; Yuja Wang, piano

WEEK 11
LIGETI, Etude #10 Der Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice)
Yuja Wang

MOZART, Trio in E-flat Major for Clarinet, Viola & Piano, K. 498 “Kegelstatt”
Ricardo Morales, clarinet; Kirsten Johnson, viola; Jeremy Denk, piano

SAINT-SAENS, Carnival of the Animals
John Rubinstein, narrator; Bart Feller, flute; Todd Levy, clarinet; Johannes String Quartet; Marji Danilow; John O'Conor, Victor Santiago Asuncion, piano; Gregg Koyle, David Tolen, percussion; Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor

WEEK 12
Clara SCHUMANN, Songs: Warum willst du and're fragen, op. 12 no. 3; Sie liebten sich beide, op. 13 no. 2a; Ihr Bildnis, op. 13 no. 1
Susanne Mentzer, Mezzo-Soprano, Craig Rutenberg, Piano

BRAHMS, Piano Quartet no.1, g minor, op 25
Pinchas Zukerman, violin; Michael Tree, viola; Ralph Kirshbaum, cello; Leon Fleisher, piano

WEEK 13
POPPER, Requiem, Op. 66
Peter Wiley, Eric Kim, Joshua Gindele, cello; Jon Nakamatsu, piano

TCHAIKOVSKY, Trio in a minor, op. 50 for piano, violin, and cello (“In memory of a Great Artist”)
Pinchas Zukerman, violin; Gary Hoffman, cello; Jon Kimura Parker, piano