Cantante e tranquillo
Slow movements and miniatures by Beethoven, Bach, Ligeti, Kurtág, Schnittke and Knaifel played by the Keller Quartett, with Alexei Lubimov in the Schnittke; recorded 1995-2012 in Vienna, Eichstätt and Zürich and compiled with producer Manfred Eicher.
Music for piano and string quartet
Konstantia Gourzi's chamber music: piano pieces, two string quartets and two works for piano quintet, played by pianist Lorenda Ramou and Ensemble Coriolis. Recorded July 2012 at the Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Ligeti: String Quartets - Barber: Adagio
The Keller Quartett plays György Ligeti's String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 with the Molto adagio from Samuel Barber's String Quartet op. 11 between them. Recorded June 2007 and October 2011 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.
Song of Songs
One-page string quartets and settings of phrases from the Song of Songs by Boris Yoffe, played by the Rosamunde Quartett with the four singers of The Hilliard Ensemble, recorded in November 2009 at Propstei St. Gerold.
Reinventions
String quartet arrangements by Stefano Scodanibbio of three Contrapuncti from Bach's Art of Fugue, Spanish guitar pieces and Mexican songs, played by Quartetto Prometeo. Recorded January 2011 at Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Pollenza.
Notturno
Othmar Schoeck's Notturno Op. 47 (1931-33), five movements for baritone and string quartet on poems by Lenau and a Keller fragment, performed by Christian Gerhaher and the Rosamunde Quartett, recorded in December 2007 at the Historischer Reitstadel, …
Euridice
Chamber music by Alfred Zimmerlin: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 (Aria Quartett, Carmina Quartett) and Euridice singt for soprano, oboe, cello, piano and tape (Æquatuor); recorded in Zürich in August 2006 and Aarau in October 2007.
Saariaho, Cage, Maderna
String quartets by Kaija Saariaho (Nymphéa, with live electronics), John Cage and Bruno Maderna played by the Cikada String Quartet, recorded in August 2001 at Sofienberg Church, Oslo, and released by ECM New Series in 2005.
Robert Schumann
Schumann's String Quartets No. 1 in A minor and No. 3 in A major, Op. 41, played by the Zehetmair Quartett (Thomas Zehetmair, Matthias Metzger, Ruth Killius, Françoise Groben), recorded at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich, in July and August 2001.
Odradek
Premiere recordings of three works by Israeli composer Gideon Lewensohn: the Piano Quintet and Odradek Quartet played by the Auryn Quartett and Alexander Lonquich (Zürich, February 2001), and the Postlude for piano, also heard played by Ora Rotem Nel…
Anja Lechner, Silke Avenhaus, Maacha Deubner, Simon Fordham, Valentin Silvestrov, Rosamunde Quartett
leggiero, pesanteChamber music by Valentin Silvestrov (1974-2001) played by Anja Lechner, Silke Avenhaus, Maacha Deubner, Simon Fordham and the Rosamunde Quartett, with the composer at the piano; recorded January 2001 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt.
The Seven Words
Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross in its string quartet version, played by the Rosamunde Quartett (Reiner, Fordham, Nicolai, Lechner). Recorded May 2000 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt am Main.
Kultrum
Eight pieces by Dino Saluzzi for bandoneon and string quartet, played by Saluzzi with the Rosamunde Quartett (Andreas Reiner, Simon Fordham, Helmut Nicolai, Anja Lechner), recorded in March 1998 at Propstei St. Gerold and produced by Manfred Eicher.
Black Angels and Makrokosmos III
Two George Crumb works of the 1970s: Black Angels in an arrangement for string quartet and string orchestra, with Cuarteto Latinoamericano, and Makrokosmos III for two amplified pianos and percussion, conducted by Juan Pablo Izquierdo.
Ruins and Remains
Suite for piano, string quartet and percussion composed in 2018 by Wolfert Brederode for the centenary of the end of World War I, played by Brederode (piano), the Matangi Quartet and Joost Lijbaart (drums, percussion). Recorded August 2021 at Sendesa…
Folly Seeing All This
Michael Mantler's chamber pieces for trumpet, the Balanescu Quartet, guitar, alto flute, vibraphone and piano, ending with a setting of Samuel Beckett's last poem sung by Karen Mantler and Jack Bruce. Recorded June 1992, Angel Studios, London. ECM 14…
Septet
Chick Corea's five-movement septet for string quartet, piano, flute and French horn, commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, plus The Temple of Isfahan. Recorded October 1984 at Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles, produced by Corea.…
Navigation for strings. Small waves
Two microtonal works by Alvin Lucier written for the performers: Navigations for Strings, played by the Arditti Quartet, and Small Waves for string quartet, trombone, piano and two water pourers, with Hildegard Kleeb and Roland Dahinden.