Brahms Horn Trio

This wonderfully wide-ranging program includes Brahms’s beautiful 1865 Horn Trio, which inspired the Ligeti trio performed by the same musicians—pianist Kirill Gerstein, violinist William Hagen, and Berlin Philharmonic Principal Horn Stefan Dohr—on the previous evening’s program, as well as Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Steve Reich’s Mallet Quartet, played here by four of the world’s leading percussionists: Colin Currie, New York Philharmonic Associate Principal Percussionist Daniel Druckman, Doug Perkins (in his Festival debut), and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Principal Percussionist Gregory Zuber. The same percussionists give the US premiere of a new work by former Santa Fe Young Composer Freya Waley-Cohen: Stone Fruit, which the Festival and London’s Wigmore Hall commissioned for Currie. 

STEVE REICH Mallet Quartet for Two Vibraphones and Two Marimbas 

DOHNÁNYI Serenade in C Major for Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 10 

FREYA WALEY-COHEN Stone Fruit for Percussion Quartet (Festival Co-Commission, US Premiere) 

BRAHMS Horn Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 40 

Kirill Gerstein, piano; Martin Beaver, William Hagen, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Eric Kim, cello; Stefan Dohr, horn; Colin Currie, Daniel Druckman, Doug Perkins, Gregory Zuber, percussion 

Approximate length: 2 hours