Concert Calendar

The Taos Chamber Music Group's 19th season opens with a program that commemorates the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Works include Sergei Rachmaninoff's First Elegiac Trio in G minor for violin, cello and piano, Maurice Ravel’s Kaddisch for flute and piano, Ingram Marshall's September Canons for violin and electronics, Haskell Small's Phoenix for flute and cello, John Adams's Road Movies for violin and piano, and Dmitri Shostakovich's First Piano Trio in C minor.

Another intimate house concert (party!) will take place at a private home made for music in Des Montes. Music of the Impressionist era, including Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Maurice Ravel’s Duo Sonata for violin and cello and Jean-Michel Damase’s 15 minutes for flute, violin, viola and cello, will be featured in an all-French program followed by wine and cheese with the musicians.

TCMG ushers in the darker, quieter time of year with Franz Schubert's dulcet Notturno for violin, cello and piano, Lowell Lieberman's haunting Night Music for flute, clarinet and piano, Johannes Brahms' Trio in A minor for clarinet, cello and piano, Kevin Puts' sparkling Simaku for clarinet, violin, cello and piano, and Glen Cortese's I Dream'd in a Dream for flute and piano, based on the Walt Whitman poem. Mirabai Starr will be joining TCMG to read the Whitman as well as a new, orginal poem written for the program.

Because of the success of last year’s Classical Holiday concerts, TCMG brings you another program of music from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Compositions that complement the holiday season’s festivities include W.A. Mozart’s Trio in Bb, K. 266 for two violins and double bass, Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Trio op. 9 no. 1 in G major, Franz Joseph Haydn’s Trio, op. 11 no. 4 in F Major for flute, violin and double bass, Gioacchino Rossini’s Sonata a quattro No. 3 in C Major for two violins, cello and double bass, and Francois Devienne’s Flute Quartet in G Major, op. 11 no. 1.

As the light begins to return, TCMG offers a luminous program featuring pianist Robert McDonald in Robert Schumann's First Piano Trio in D minor, op. 63, Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonata No. 4 in C minor for violin and piano, BWV 1017, and Bohuslav Martinu’s sunny Trio for flute, cello and piano.

TCMG creates a mosaic of music that includes Jean-Philippe Rameau’s elegant Pièce de Clavecin #5 for flute, violin and keyboard; Somei Satoh’s ethereal Birds in Warped Time for violin and piano, Haydn's "Gypsy" Piano Trio No. 39 in G Major, Augusta Read Thomas' Angel Shadows for alto flute, and Saint-Saens' effervescent Piano Trio No.1 in F Major.

Music that crosses the centuries and the seas concludes TCMG’s season with a masterpiece of the wind and piano repertoire, Mozart’s Quintet for piano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn; Ludwig Thuille’s late Romantic Sextet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and piano; and Gary Schocker’s update of timeless American Indian music in his Native American Suite for flute and piano.