Archive

*2022 season repertoire
^ works commissioned/written for and premiered by the Aizuri Quartet

STRING QUARTETS

*John Adams (b. 1947): Absolute Jest
*Eleanor Alberga (b. 1949): String Quartet No. 1 (1993)
^Peter Askim (b. 1971): String Quartet (2016)
Katherine Balch (b. 1991): With Each Breathing (2015)
Samuel Barber: Adagio from String Quartet in B Minor, Op. 11
Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 1, Sz. 40
Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 2, Sz. 67
^Lembit Beecher (b. 1980): These Are Not Estonian Flowers (2021)
Lembit Beecher (b. 1980): These Memories May Be True (2012)
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 18 No. 6
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in C major, Op. 59 No. 3
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130 (with Grosse Fuge Op. 
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
Ludwig van Beethoven: Grosse Fuge, Op. 133
Alban Berg: String Quartet, Op. 3
*Hildegard von Bingen: Columba aspexit (arr. for string quartet)
^Gulli Björnsson (b. 1991): String Quartet No. 1, Bergmál (2019)
Pascal Le Boeuf (b. 1986): Gateway (2018)
Nicola Campogrande (b. 1969): Rimedi per l’anima (2011)
^Dai Wei (b. 1989): Partial Men, for string quartet, electronics, and voice (2020)
^Stephen Dankner (b. 1944): String Quartet No. 19 (2016)
Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10
Donnacha Dennehy (b. 1970): Strange Folk (2018)
^Nick DiBerardino (b. 1989): Beet Juice (2020)
Antonín Dvořák: Selections of Songs from Cypresses
^Liam Elliot: eclipse (2020)
*George Gershwin: Lullaby for string quartet
Carlo Gesualdo: O tenebroso giorno, “Io Parto” e non più dissi (arr. for string quartet by Alex Fortes)
*Rhiannon Giddens (b. 1977): At the Purchaser’s Option (2017)
Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931): String Quartet No. 4 (1993)
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20 No. 2
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in B minor, Op. 33 No. 1
Joseph Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, Op. 51
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in B Minor, Op. 64 No. 2
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 64 No. 3
*^Shawn Jaeger (b. 1985): so much time (2021)
Leoš Janáček: String Quartet No. 1, Kreutzer Sonata
^Ilari Kaila (b. 1978): Jouhet (2016)
Ilari Kaila (b. 1978): Wisteria (2003)
Komitas Vartabed: Armenian Folk Songs, arranged by Sergei Aslamazian
Sky Macklay (b. 1988): Many, many cadences (2014)
^Matthew McBane (b. 1979): Uphill (2018)
^Anna Meadors (b. 1989): Lignin (2018)
Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 13
Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E minor, Op. 44 No. 1
^Tom Morrison (b. 1992): Sea Change (2018)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet in G Major, K. 387
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet in D Major, K. 575
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet in F Major, K. 590
Conlon Nancarrow: String Quartet No. 3 (1987)
Akira Nishimura (b. 1959): String Quartet No. 5, Shesha (2013)
^Rene Orth (b. 1985): Stripped (2015)
*^Evan Premo (b. 1985): String Quartet No. 1, Deeply Known
Giacomo Puccini: Crisantemi
*Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F Major
Steve Reich (b.1936): Different Trains (1988)
^Cleek Schrey: fju (2020)
*Robert Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41 No. 1
Robert Schumann: String Quartet in A Major, Op. 41 No. 3
^Yevgeniy Sharlat (b. 1977): RIPEFG (2016)
^Caroline Shaw (b. 1982): Blueprint (2016)
Jean Sibelius: String Quartet Op. 56, Voces Intimae
*^Gabriella Smith (b. 1991): Carrot Revolution (2015)
Annika Socolofsky (b. 1990): The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: the meantime (2020)
*^Barbara Strozzi: Lusignolo & L’Amante Modesto arr. Alex Fortes (2020)
Phil Taylor (b. 1989): Poeme (2013)
Daniel Temkin (b. 1986): Intricate Machines (2016)
^Jason Treuting: It was a rainy afternoon (2019)
Mark-Anthony Turnage (b. 1960): Contusion (2014)
^Rodney Waschka II (b. 1958): String Quartet No. 4 (2016)
^Connor Elias Way (b. 1991): Veil (2018)
Anton Webern: Langsamer Satz
^Alyssa Weinberg (b. 1988): Parallels (2014)
^Paul Wiancko (b. 1983): Purple Antelope Sound Squeeze (2021)
^Paul Wiancko (b. 1983): LIFT (2016)
Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade
*Nina C. Young (b. 1984): Memento Mori (2013)

COLLABORATIVE WORKS

*^Kinan Azmeh (b. 1976): The Fence, the Rooftop and the Distant Sea (2018) for clarinet and string quartet
*Amy Beach: Theme and Variations, Op. 80
^Lembit Beecher (b. 1980): Sophia’s Forest (2017), chamber opera with string quartet, percussion, and electronically controlled sound sculptures
^Lembit Beecher (b. 1980): Sophia's Wide Awake Dreams for string quartet and electronically-controlled sound sculptures (2017)
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34
Johannes Brahms: Viola Quintet in F Major, Op. 88
Johannes Brahms: Viola Quintet in G Major, Op. 111
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 10
^Douglas J. Cuomo (b. 1958): Seven Limbs (2021), guitar and string quartet
Donnacha Dennehy (b. 1970): Custom of the Coast (2018, work in progress to a specially written text by Paul Muldoon), for soprano, mezzo-soprano, and string quartet
John Dowland: Four Songs, arranged for soprano and string quartet
Anatoly Drozdov: Piano Quintet Op. 11
John Dowland: Four Songs (arranged for soprano and string quartet)
Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81
Antonín Dvořák: Sextet in A Major, Op. 48
Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960): Lúa Descolorida (2002), soprano and string quartet
Jennifer Higdon (b. 1960): In the Shadow of Sirius (2012), soprano and string quartet
Ilari Kaila (b. 1978): Kellojen kumarrus — In Memoriam Hanna Sarvala for piano quintet (The Bells Bow Down — In Memoriam Hanna Sarvala) (2006)
^Andrew Lipke (b. 1978): Anniversary (2014), string quartet and speaker
Based on the poem “Anniversary” by Denice Frohman
^Andrew Lipke (b. 1978): My Love (2014), string quartet and singer/guitar
*^David Serkin Ludwig (b. 1974): Organistrum (2021)
Felix Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Viola Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 614
^Multiple Composers: Suite of Micro-commissions (2018) for clarinet and string quartet by Can Bilir (b. 1987), Pauchi Sasaki (b. 1981), Wang Lu (b. 1982), and Michi Wiancko (b. 1976)
*Franz Schubert: Cello Quintet in C Major, D. 956
Arnold Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 for string quartet and soprano
Caroline Shaw (b. 1982): By and By, singer and string quartet
Dmitri Shostakovich: Prelude and Scherzo for String Octet, Op. 11
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57
Kojiro Umezaki (b. 1968): (Cycles) what falls must rise for shakuhachi, string quartet, 
and electronics (2009)
Dan Welcher (b. 1948): Museon Polemos (2012), string octet
Michi Wiancko (b. 1976): Murasaki’s Moon, chamber opera based on Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji
Jörg Widmann (b. 1973): String Quartet No. 5, Versuch über die Fuge (2009), for string quartet and soprano