String Quartets

Composer	Work	Duration	Date	Recorded on	World Première, given by Arditti Quartet
ACKER Dieter	Quartet No.4	12’	1971-75
ADES Thomas	Arcadiana	21’	1994
ADORNO Theodore	Two Pieces for String Quartet,  Op.2	12’	1925-26
AGUIRRE Louis	Ochosi	8.5’	2010		19 July 2010, Darmstadt
ALIAJ Cezar	Irreversible	24.5’	1998		26 April 2005, Salamanca
ALLESANDRINI Patricia	De profondis clamavi (hommage à Alban Berg) with electronics	6.5'	2007		18 July 2007, Metz
ALMEIDA  Patricia Sucena	Dulce Delirium	10’	2005	CD	17 July 2005, Metz
	Nocturna Itinera	9’	2008		21 June 2008, Blonay
ANDRIESSEN Louis	Facing Death	19’	1991
	Garden of Eros, Quartet No. 2	12’	2002		26 September 2002, Strasbourg
APERGHIS Georges	Ten Pieces	47’	1985		16 September 1986, Strasbourg
	Three Pieces	9.5’	2008		10 April 2008, Salzburg
	Quartet Movement	7.5’	2008		26 April 2009, Witten
ARCHBOLD Paul	Impacts and Fractures	5'	1999
BABONI SCHILINGI Jacopo	Il colore del blu	7’	1999
BADINSKY Nicolai	Quartet No.3,  Hommage à Béla Bartók	21’	1978	vinyl
BAINBRIDGE Simon	Cheltenham Fragments	6'	2004		14 July 2004, Cheltenham
BALLIF  Claude	Quartet No.1, Op.12	20’	1955
	Quartet No.4	25’	1990		27 March 1990, Paris
BALTAKAS  Vykintas	B(ell Tree)	14’	2007	CD	21 April 2007, Witten
BANQUART Alain	Memoire	22’	1985		30 November 1985, Orleans
BARGIELSKI Zbigniew	Quartet No.3,  Stilleben mit Geschrei	14’	1985	vinyl	26 October 1985, Graz
BARI Marco di	Echo - Logical Listening	11’	2004		05 October 2008, Parma
BARNSON Matthew	Quartet	11’	2005		17 July 2005, Metz
BARRETT Richard	I open and close	23’	1988		15 December 1988, London (BBC)
	Stress	14’	1996-97	CD	27 April 1997, Witten
BARRY Gerald	Cork	13’	1985		08 September 1985, London (ICA)
BARTOK Béla	Quartet No.1	30’	1909
	Quartet No.2	28’	1915-17
	Quartet No.3	16’	1927
	Quartet No.4	23’	1928	CD
	Quartet No.5	31’	1934
	Quartet No.6	29’	1939
BEETHOVEN Ludwig Van	Große Fuge, Op.133	17’	1825	CD
BELLON Stefano	Secondo Commentario (with tape)	9’	1996		19 June 1996, Milan
BERG Alban	Quartet, Op.3	22’	1910	CD
	Lyric Suite	28’	1926	CD
BERIO Luciano	Study for String Quartet	5’	1952
	Quartet	7’	1956	CD
	Sincronie	15’	1964	CD
	Notturno, Quartet No.3	23’	1993	CD
	Glosse	7’	1996	CD
BERKELEY Michael	Quartet Study	8’	1987
BERSTAD Ragnhild	Toreuma	12’	1999	CD	10 October 1999, Oslo
BERTELSMEIER Birke	Quartettsatz	12’	2008		21 June 2008, Blonay
BERTRAND Christophe	Quartet	12’	2005
	Quartet No.2	11’	2010		24 September 2011, Strasbourg
BEYER Frank Michael	Quartet No.2	10’	1969
BILLONE Pierluigi	Muri IIIb per Federico de Leonardis	24’	2010		22 July 2010, Darmstadt
BIRTWISTLE Harrison	4 songs of Autumn for soprano and Quartet	6’	1988
	Nine Movements for String Quartet	34’	1996		28 April 1996, Witten
	also exists as:  Pulse Shadows – Meditations on Paul Celan (for soprano, string quartet and ensemble)	70’	1996	CD	28 April 1996, Witten
	The Tree of Strings	29.5’	2007	CD	27 April 2008, Witten
BLAUSTEIN Susan	Ricercare	25’	1981
BO Sonia	Quartet	8’	1985
BOESMANS Philippe	Fly and Driving	16’	1988-89	CD	17 March 1989, Brussels
	Summer Dreams	23’	1994	CD	09 February 1995, Luxembourg
BOHLAN Jonas	Nunatak	11’	1995
BONATO Giorgio	Scarecrow Song (for amplified quartet)	10’	1991		23 November 1991, Messina
BORTZ  Daniel	Quartet No.3	15’	1987
BOSE Hans Jürgen von	Quartet No.3	30’	1986-87		26 May 1989, Saarbrücken
BOUCHARD Linda	Lung Ta	20’	1992
BOUCOURECHLIEV Andre	Miroirs 2	22’	1991
BOULEZ Pierre	Livre pour Quatuor	40’	1948-49
BRAUN Peter Michael	Junctim	18’	1974-75
BRAVI Daniele	Quartet No.2	6’	2005		17 July 2005, Metz
BREWAEYS Luc	Quartet	14’	1988-89		17 May 1990, Antwerp
	Quartet No. 2 Bowmore	17’	1995
BRITTEN  Benjamin	Quartettino	14’	1930		23 May 1983, London (Barbican)
	Quartet No.3	28’	1975	CD
BRIZZI Aldo	da un Frammento	6’	1983
BROWN Chris	Arcade		2008		05 March 2009, Oakland
BRUTTGER Thomas	Prisma	21’	2001-02		17 May 2002, Insel Hombroich
BRYARS  Gavin	Between the National and Bristol	20’	1985	CD	08 October 1985, Vienna
BULFON  Stefano	Stultifera Navis	9’	2005		17 July 2005, Metz
BULLER John	Familiar	12’	1976
BURT  Francis	Quartet No.2	13’	1993		16 June 1995, London (BBC)
BUSSOTTI Sylvano	Quartetto Gramsci	12’	1971	CD
	Andante Favorito (portrait)	30’	1988		10 May 1988, Paris
CAGE  John	String Quartet in Four Parts	24’	1949-50	CD
	Thirty Pieces for String Quartet	30’	1984	CD
	Music for Four	30’	1987(88)	CD	27 February 1988, Wesleyan, USA
	Four	30’	1989	CD	24 November 1989, Huddersfield
	44 Movements from Apartment House   (arr. Irvine Arditti)	102’	2000	CD
CAPPELLI Gilberto	Quartet	7’	1981		09 October 1981, Venice
CARDEW  Cornelius	First Movement for String Quartet	8’	1961	CD
CARILLO Julian	Two Sketches	12	1925
CARTER Elliott	Elegy	4’	1943 (46)	CD
	Quartet No.1	38’	1951	CD
	Quartet No.2	23’	1959	CD
	Quartet No.3	20’	1971	CD
	Quartet No.4	22’	1986	CD
	Fragment	5’	1994	CD
	Quartet No.5	21’	1995	CD	19 September 1995, Antwerp
	Fragment No.2	4’	1999	CD	23 June 1999, Munich
CASABLANCAS Benet	Cinc Interludis	8'	1983	CD
	Quartet No.2	18’	1991	CD
	Encore for Arditti	7'	2003-04	CD	23 March 2004, Granada
	Quartet No.3	22’	2006-09	CD	31 July 2009, Torroella de Montgri
CASTIGLIONI Nicolo	Romanze	9’	1990	CD	28 Oct 1991, London (Purcell Room)
CERHA Friedrich	Quartet No.1, Maqam	13’	1989	CD
	Quartet No.2	18’	1989/90	CD
	Quartet No.3	20’	1991	CD	03 May 1992, Vienna
	Quartet No.4	19’	2001
CERNOWIN Chaya	Quartet No.3	22’	1996	CD	20 March 1996, Tel Aviv
CERRILLO Juan-Christobal	Still, still	7’	2002		14 April 2002, Mexico City
	(Re) invencion (o inalcanzable cercania)	13’	2005-07		28 March 2007, Mexico City
CHARLES Augustin	Quartet No.2	15’	2007		23 February 2008, Barcelona
CHEN Shih-Ui	Quartet No.3	14’	1988		06 August 1998, Tanglewood
CHEN  Xiaogong	Quartet No.1	14’	1986-87
CHIN Unsuk	Para Meta String	20’	1996
CHINCA Stefano	Quartetsatz	12’	1991		23 November 1991, Messina
CHO Eun-Hwa	Quartet No.2	12’	2004
CHOI Myung-Whun	Satya	13.5’	2006		02 September 2006, Takefu
CHOLONIEWSKI Marek	‘Dark and Light Zone' for quartet and interactive systems	23'	1999		02 September 1999, schwaz
CLARKE James	String Quartet	10'	2002-03		23 November 2003, Huddersfield
	Quartet No.2	19’	2009		21 November 2009, Huddersfield
CLAUSEN Lasse Krogh	Broken Promises	14’	2006		06 December 2006, Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen
CLEMENTI Aldo	Tribute	4’	1988		24 June 1988, Pontina
COHEN Denis	Erinnerung for quartet and live electronics	26’	2006		19 June 2009, Paris
COHN Stephen	Eye of chaos	13’	1990	CD	16 April 1991, Los Angeles
COWELL Henry	Quartet No.4, United	13’	1936
CRAWFORD-SEEGER Ruth	Quartet	10’	1931	CD
CROCKETT Donald	Array	16’	1987
CURRAN Alvin	VSTO (revised)		2009		05 March 2009, Oakland
DADELSEN Hans-C von	Karakoram	12’	1994		03 August 1994, Darmstadt
DALL'ONGARO Michele	Quartet No.5	16'	2003-04		05 March 2004, Rome
DAVERSON Steven	Microscopic Negatives	13.5’	2006-07		16 February 2008, London
DAVIES Peter Maxwell	Quartet Movement	3’	1952	CD	23 May 1983, London
	Quartet	13’	1961
	Little Quartet No.1	8’	1980
	Little Quartet No.2	6’	1987
DAVIES Don	Bleeding Particles	13’	1983	CD
DEAN Brett	Eclipse	18'	2003
DEANE Raymond	Inter pares (Quartet No.3)	26.5’	2000		02 September 2001, Dublin
DEBUSSY Claude	Quartet	25’	1893
DE LEEUW Reinbert	Etude	12’	1983-85
DELGADO Alexandre	Quartet	12’	1991	CD
DELIUS Frederick	Quartet	28’	1916
DE MAY Thierry	Quartet No.1	15’	1991
DENCH Chris	Strangeness	16’	1985		28 September 1985, Venice
DENISOV Edison	Four Pieces	9’	1991		06 June 1992, Insel Hombroich
DE PABLO Luis	Fragmento	15’	1985-86	CD	15 June 1986, London (Almeida)
	Caligrafia Serena	18’	1994		10 April 1994, London (Almeida)
	Flessuoso	12’	1995-96		15 December 1997, Bilbao
DE RAAFF Robin	Athomus	19.5'	1992-3  revised 2005
DEUTSCHE  Bernd Richard	Traumspiel		2005		23 November 2005, Vienna
DEVILLERS  J.B.	Ictus	12’	1981
DILLON James	Quartet	22’	1983		18 November 1983, Huddersfield
	Quartet No.2	18’	1991	CD	05 October 1991, Strasbourg
	Quartet No.3	16’	1998		17 October 1998, Donaueschingen
	Quartet No.5	14’	2004-08		21 November 2009, Huddersfield
	Quartet No.6	16.5'	2010		16 October 2010, Donaueschingen
DINESCU Violeta	Terra Lonhdana	15’	1984		30 August 1990, Kassel
DITTRICH Paul Heinz	Quartet No.2	19’	1982		26 April 1986, Witten
	Quartet No.3, Nachtmusik	30’	1987-88		25 February 1989, Berlin
	Quartet No.4	9’	1992		19 May 1994, Berlin
DJORDJEVIC Milica	La Mort de L'etoiles-connaiseur	8’	2008		21 June 2008, Blonay
	La Mort de L'etoiles-connaiseur II	14.5’	2009		12 March 2009, Brussels
DOHMEN Andreas	Discours du grand Sommeil	17’	1991-92		27 April 1992, Düsseldorf
DONATONI Franco	The Heart’s Eye	22’	1979-80
	La Souris sans sourire	18’	1988	CD
DONG Kui	Differences within Oneness	17’	2008-09		02 March 2011, Edenkoben
DUBROVAY Laszlo	Quartet No.3	22’	1983	vinyl	19 November 1985, Berlin
DUFOURT Hugues	Quartet No.1 Dawn Flight	29'	2008	CD	29 September 2008, Strasbourg
	Quartet No.2 Eneasiness	16.5’	2009-10		13 March 2010, Antwerp
DUN Tan	Eight Colors	15’	1986-88	CD
DUSAPIN  Pascal	Quartet No.1	11’	1983	CD	29 June 1983, La Rochelle
	Quartet No.2, Time Zones	37’	1988-89	CD	20 October 1989, Paris
	Quartet No.3	20’	1993	CD	03 November 1993, Paris
	Quartet No.4	14’	1997	CD
	Quartet No.5	17.5’	2004-05	CD	15 June 2005, Amsterdam
	Quartet No.7, Open Time	39’	2009		16 January 2010, Paris
DUTILLEUX Henri	Ainsi la Nuit	18’	1976	CD
EDLUND Mikael	Brains and dancin'	18’	1981
EDWARDS Wolf	Ichos	6’	2005		17 July 2005, Metz
EKSTRÖM Lars	Lucello Esca	15’	1989-2001		11 November 2001, Stockholm
ELIASON Anders	Disegno	7’	1975
ENGEL Paul	Quartet No.4, Panta Rhei	21’	1988		24 May 1991, Vienna
EOTVOS Peter	Korrespondenz	15’	1992		02 July 1993, Schleswig-Holstein
ERBER James	An Allegory of Exile	17’	1992-95		30 July 1996, Darmstadt
ERIKSDOTTIR Karolina	Six Movements	8'	1983
ERIKSON Robert	Solstice	21’	1984-85
ESSL Karlheinz	Quartet	12’	1985
	Helix 1:0	15’	1986	CD
	upward, behind the onstreaming it mooned	18'	2000-01
ESSYAD Ahmed	Never More	13’	1986		17 January 1987, Paris
ESTRADA Julio	Canto Mnémico	5’	1973-83	CD
	Ishini’ioni	21’	1990	CD	09 June 1991, Amsterdam
EVANGELISTI Franco	Aleatorio	4’	1959
EWERT Maximilian C. Yehuda	Heritage	13.5’	2007		14 November 2007, Kassel