3pm Saturday July 18, 2026
Location: Trinity Lutheran Church, 909 N. La Cumbre Road
Program highlights span the 19th and 21st centuries, showcasing a range of chamber music colors and styles:
- Gioachino Rossini — Duet for Cello and Double Bass in D major (1824)
An early-romantic duet by the famed operatic Italian composer, this work is light and charming.
The Santa Barbara Chamber Players will present a fundraising concert on Saturday, July 18 at 3:00 PM at Trinity Lutheran Church, 909 N. La Cumbre Road. Proceeds support the ensemble’s upcoming season. Tickets are $25 and are available at sbchamberplayers.org and at the door.
- Carl Reinecke — Trio for Piano, Oboe, and Horn in A Minor, Op. 188 (1887)
This piano trio from Carl Reinecke, a prolific German, mid-Romantic era composer, offers both yearning choruses and witty dialogue between the oboe, horn, and piano.
- Osvaldo Golijov — Lullaby and Doina (2001)
From contemporary Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov, these two pieces fuse classical chamber sensibilities with folk and improvisatory elements. “Lullaby” offers tender, evocative Yiddish lyricism while “Doina” draws on the plaintive, improvisatory tradition of Eastern European and Romani music. The work was composed based on the music from the movie The Man Who Cried by Sally Potter. It is described in the composer’s words below.
“This piece starts with a set of variations on a Yiddish lullaby that I composed for Sally Potter’s film The Man Who Cried, set to function well in counterpoint to another important music theme in the soundtrack: Bizet’s aria “Je crois entendre encore,” from The Pearl Fishers,” Golijov says. “In her evocative film Sally explores the fate of Jews and Gypsies in the tragic mid-years of the 20th century, through a love story between a Jewish young woman and a Gypsy young man. Accordingly, the theme of the lullaby here metamorphoses into a dense and dark doina (a slow, rubato gypsy genre) featuring the lowest string of the viola. The piece ends in a fast gallop boasting a theme that I stole from my friends of the wild gypsy band Taraf de Haidouks. The theme is presented here in an almost canonical chase where the clarinet pursues the flute-violin combination flying away.”
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Quintet for Piano and Winds in B-flat Major (1876)
An early chamber work by the master orchestrator Rimsky-Korsakov, the Quintet balances bright wind colors with virtuosic piano writing. The piece displays melodic inventiveness and spirited interplay among the instruments.