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Classical Repertoire

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Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet Op. 18 No. 6 in B-flat major (25 mins)

  • Allegro con brio

  • Adagio ma non troppo

  • Scherzo. Allegro

  • La Malinconia: Adagio - Allegretto quasi allegro

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Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet No.16, Op.135 (25 minutes)

  • Allegretto

  • Vivace

  • Lento assai, cantate e tranquillo

  • Der schwer gefasste Entschluss (Grave - Allegro - Grave ma non troppo tanto - Allegro)

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Benjamin Britten - String Quartet No. 2 in C (30 mins)

  • Allegro calmo, senza rigore

  • Vivace

  • Chacony: sostenuto

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Antonín Dvořák - Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81 (40 mins)

  • Allegro ma non tanto

  • Dumka. Andante con moto

  • Scherzo (Furiant). Molto vivace - Poco tranquillo

  • Finale. Allegro

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Gabriel Fauré - Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 45 (35 mins)

  • Allegro molto moderato

  • Allegro molto

  • Adagio non troppo

  • Allegro molto

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Gabriel Fauré - String Quartet in E minor, Op. 121 (25 mins)

  • Allegro moderato

  • Andante

  • Allegro

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Joseph Haydn - String Quartet No. 6 in D Major, Op. 33 (18 mins)

  • Vivace assai

  • Andante

  • Scherzo: Allegro

  • Finale: Allegretto

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Joseph Haydn - String Quartet No. 5 in F major ‘The Dream’, Op. 50 (18 mins)

  • Allegro moderato

  • Poco Adagio

  • Tempo di Menuetto

  • Vivace

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Joseph Haydn - String Quartet No. 5 in D Major, Op. 64 (20 mins)

  • Allegro moderato

  • Adagio

  • Menuet: Allegretto

  • Finale: Vivace

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Fanny Hensel - String Quartet in E-flat major (20 mins)

  • Adagio ma non troppo

  • Allegretto

  • Romanze

  • Allegro molto vivace 

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Leoš Janáček - String Quartet No.1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ (20 mins)

  • Adagio

  • Con Moto

  • Con Moto - Vivo - Andante

  • Con Moto - Adagio - Più Mosso

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Felix Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13 (30 mins)

  • Adagio - Allegro Vivace

  • Adagio non lento

  • Intermezzo. Allegretto con moto - Allegro di molto

  • Presto - Adagio non lento

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Henry Purcell - ‘Chacony’ in G minor, arranged by Benjamin Britten (7 mins)
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Maurice Ravel - String Quartet in F major (30 mins)

  • Allegro moderato - Très doux

  • Assez vif - Très rythmé

  • Très lent

  • Vif et agité

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Franz Schubert - String Quartet No. 14, ‘Death and the Maiden’ (40 mins)

  • Allegro

  • Andante con moto

  • Scherzo. Allegro molto - Trio

  • Presto 

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Robert Schumann - Piano Quartet in E flat Major Op. 47 (30 mins)

  • Sostenuto assai – Allegro ma non troppo

  • Scherzo:Molto vivace – Trio I – Trio II

  • Andante cantabile

  • Finale: Vivace

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Robert Schumann - Piano Quintet in E flat Major Op. 44 (30 mins)

  • Allegro brillante

  • In Modo d'una Marcia. Un poco largamente

  • Scherzo. Molto vivace

  • Allegro ma non troppo 

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Contemporary Repertoire

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Dan Baczkowski - ‘Resignation and Hymn’ (13 mins)
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Jonathon Dove - ‘Out of Time’ (17 mins)

  • Quite fast

  • Slow

  • Stomping

  • Lively

  • Fast

  • Gently moving

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Piers Hellawell - ‘The Still Dancers’

  • Invocation - Floating (8mins)

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Samual Kane - ‘Into the Stratosphere’ for string Septet (world premiere)
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Omri Kochavi - ‘Arugot’ (15 mins) (Commissioned for the Aestus Quartet by Britten Pears Arts 2024)

  • I. solo (i) - Violin I

  • II. shumarim | שׁוּ ַמ ִרים - full quartet

  • III. solo (ii) - Cello

  • IV. shablulim | ַשׁ ְבּלוּ ִלים - full quartet

  • V. duo - Violin II + Viola

  • VI. anafim | ֲע ָנ ִפים - full quarte

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Cassandra Miller - ‘Warblework’ (17mins)

  • Swainson’s Thrush

  • Hermit Thrush

  • Wood Thrush

  • Veery

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Ben Nobuto - ‘Playtime’ (7mins)
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Michael Oesterle - String Quartet No.3 ‘Alan Turing’ (13 mins)

  • I

  • II

  • III

  • IV

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Caroline Shaw - ‘Entr’acte’ (12 mins)
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Caroline Shaw - ‘Valencia’ (6 mins)
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Hoadong Wang - ‘Through Frail Shadows’ for String Quartet and Fixed Media (11 mins)
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Christian Wolff - ‘Microexercises (1-8, 9-22), one or more players, free instrumentation’ (12 mins)
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Alternative Repertoire

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Danish String Quartet - Scandinavian folk tunes arranged for string quartet

  • ‘AE Rømeser’

  • ‘Hur Var Du i Aftes Så Sildig’

  • ‘Shine You No More’

  • ‘Brudestykke from Sønderho Bridal Trilogy - Part II

  • ‘Sekstur from Vendsyssel / The Peat Dance’

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Jasdeep Singh Deegun - ‘Veer’ arranged for Sitar, Tabla, and String Quartet (9mins)
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Donald Grant - ‘Callum’s Road’ arranged for string quartet
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Samual Kane - Trio of Irish folk tunes arranged for string quartet

  • ‘Don Oíche Úd i mBeithil’

  • ‘Petronella’

  • ‘Rocky Road to Dublin’

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