Violinist

Kirill Gerstein, one of the world’s most acclaimed pianists, joins forces with conductor Alan Gilbert and 21 Festival musicians to give the Festival’s first-ever performance of Ligeti’s magnificent Piano Concerto, a masterpiece of originality as witnessed in the composer’s treatment of rhythm, harmony, and more. The renowned pianist Juho Pohjonen joins a string quartet of musicians for Elgar’s late-Romantic Piano Quintet, known for its gorgeous second movement, and dazzling violinists Jennifer Frautschi and Jessica Lee open the program with duos by Bartók.

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Ligeti Piano Concerto

New Mexico Museum of Art

Alan Gilbert makes his first appearance of the season playing violin in Dvořák’s String Quintet in E-flat Major, which includes an additional viola (the composer’s own instrument) and dates from Dvořák’s time in America. The program also spotlights another 19th-century Czech composer, the cello virtuoso David Popper—whose exquisitely tender Requiem features the unusual scoring of three cellos and a piano—and it includes the wonderfully rich (thanks to its two cellos) String Quintet in F-sharp Minor by the early-20th-century German composer Walter Braunfels.

Violinist

L.P. How

Events

Past events

6 - 7 Aug, 2023

Ligeti Piano Concerto · Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Aug 2, 2023

Dvořák String Quintet · Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

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