Chamber Players
Sunday, January 24 2027, at 1:30 PM
Christ Church Santa Fe, Sagrado Theater
1213 Don Gaspar
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Admission is free and donations are appreciated.
Parking available at the venue
Brass that gleams, a flute that floats, Handel that dances. A chamber afternoon in three parts — bright, then warm, then a hornpipe to finish.
Brass quintet selections
Wind Quintet in G minor,
Ottorino Respighi
Ottorino Respighi's Wind Quintet in G Minor is an early chamber work composed during his formative years as a composer. The piece reflects Respighi's solid grounding in classical forms and his interest in exploring the expressive potential of wind instruments.
String Quintet in F major (Op. 88)
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms’ String Quintet in F Major, Op. 88, composed in 1882, is a masterpiece of chamber music that demonstrates his late-period mastery of form, structure, and expressive depth. This work is written for a traditional string quintet ensemble: two violins, two violas, and a cello. Brahms himself referred to the quintet as one of his finest compositions, and it holds a special place in the chamber music repertoire.
Flute Quintet in D major, Op. 51
Friedrich Kuhlau
Kuhlau never played the flute, but he wrote for it so well that his contemporaries called him the Beethoven of the flute — and Beethoven himself was a friend. This quintet sets the flute over an unusual bed of two violas and cello, warm and dark beneath the bright line. You'll hear why the nickname stuck.
Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 7
George Frideric Handel
Handel wrote all twelve of his Opus 6 concertos in a single month in the fall of 1739, and this one is the oddball of the set — its second movement is a fugue built on a single repeated note. It ends with a hornpipe, a sailors' dance. You'll feel the room start to bob.