Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

KNUSSEN REQUIEM

Description

BBC Philharmonic Chief Guest Conductor John Storgårds leads soprano Tony Arnold—renowned for her interpretations of contemporary and cutting-edge music—and an ensemble of Festival musicians in Oliver Knussen’s Requiem: Songs for Sue, which honors the 21st-century master’s late wife. Mr. Storgårds also plays violin in Shostakovich’s tumultuous Piano Trio in E Minor, most of which the composer wrote while mourning the sudden death of a close friend.

FAURÉ Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 13

KNUSSEN Requiem: Songs for Sue, Op. 33

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 67

Tony Arnold, John Storgårds, Zoltán Fejérvári, Nicolas Namoradze, Paul Huang, Che-Yen Chen, Theresa Rudolph, Alastair Eng, Joseph Johnson, Peter Stumpf, Leigh Mesh, Grace Browning, Rachel Blumenthal, Bart Feller, Todd Levy, YaoGuang Zhai, Taylor Eiffert, Jennifer Montone, Julia Pilant, Gregory Zuber

Approximate length: 1 hour and 40 minutes

Festival artists and programming are subject to change.

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