So this time last year I decided that I’d listen to a different string quartet every day of the year. Over 500 quartets later I think I came close to the mark. The rules of engagement were basically that the music had to be for string quartet (2 violins, viola and cello). Of course it starts to get nebulous in the 20th century as quartets are written to include ‘extras’ – voice, tape loops, unusual instruments, electronica and electric strings. For the most part I haven’t included these with a few important exceptions – Steve Reich, Tan Dun, etc. I didn’t post everyday and did miss some days with catch-ups later. I also didn’t post everything I listened to and some of the posts got lost in the twitterverse.

How did I listen? Most involved 20 minutes after work with the stereo and just listening. Many were listened too more than once and in most circumstances, as I was listening to CDs/albums I just left the music on. Some was backgorund music and some was commuting music.

The question is “why to have botherered”? This was immersion therapy and what one starts to hear when one listens to almost the entire canon is connections. I’m not somebody with a ‘photographic’ memory for music but listening this way one starts to make the links and hear similarities, themes and what seems to be the ubiquitous quotations of Beethoven and Shostakovich. One of the other great things is that by listening to everything even the real outliers fall into place. There is no doubt that when confronted by a late 20th century piece the naive listener will have trouble appreciating the music – it will be noise. If however the listener knows what comes before it all makes sense.

Highlights have been Morton Feldman’s second quartet – several hours worth, the simple discovery of new sounds and composrs and of course re-listening to the masters – the Beethoven, Shostakovich and Bartok cycles. Also exciting was to be followed on twitter by Benet Casablancas, one of the composers I posted. It must be gratifying for a living composer to know that somebody buys and listens to their recordings. Also exciting was to find the range of composers – whilst there are a lot of guys called Hans there were also men and women from all sorts of geographical backgorunds sharing a common passion.

Today I’ll listen to some frippery transcribed for christmas and the new year by Vitamin String Quartet and plot the plan for 2012 – listening based on the books by Alex Ross “The Rest is Noise” and “Listen to This”.

For those who are interested here is a list of quartets you might want to listen to:

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1.    Thomas Ades Arcadiana, op.12

2.    Franghiz Ali-Zadeh – Mugam Sayagi

3.    Franghiz Ali-Zadeh – Oasis

4.    George Antheil String Quartet No.1 (1924)

5.    George Antheil String Quartet No.2 (1927)

6.    George Antheil String Quartet No.3 (1948)

7.    Juan Christostomo Jacomo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola String Quartet No.1 in D minor

8.    Juan Christostomo Jacomo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola String Quartet No.2 in A major

9.    Juan Christostomo Jacomo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola String Quartet No.3 in E flat major

10. Hans Erich Apostel String Quartet No.1, op.7

11. Rafal Augustyn String Quartet No.1

12. Rafal Augustyn String Quartet No.2 (version with flute)

13. Rafal Augustyn Dedication

14. Rafal Augustyn Do ut des

15. Rafal Augustyn Quartet No. 2 1/2 “Grand jete”

16. Samuel Barber String Quartet Op.11 (incl. Adagio for strings)

17. Bela Bartok String Quartet No.1, op.7, Sz.40, BB 52 (1909)

18. Bela Bartok String Quartet No.2, op.17, Sz.67, BB 75 (1915-17)

19. Bela Bartok String Quartet No.3, Sz.85, BB 93 (1927)

20. Bela Bartok String Quartet No.4, Sz.91, BB 95 (1938)

21. Bela Bartok String Quartet No.5, Sz.102, BB 110 (1934)

22. Bela Bartok String Quartet No.6, Sz.114, BB 119 (1939)

23. Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet (no.1) in F major, op.18 no.1

24. Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet (no.2) in G major, op.18 no.2

25. Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet (no.3) in D major, op.18 no.3

26. Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet (no.4) in C minor, op.18 no.4

27. Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet (no.5) in A major, op.18 no.5

28. Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet (no.6) in B flat major, op.18 no.6

29. Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet (no.7) in F major, op.59 no.1 “Razumovsky”

30. Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet (no.8) in E minor, op.59 no.2 “Razumovsky”

31. Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet (no.9) in C major, op.59 no.3 “Razumovsky”

32. Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet (no.10) in E flat major, op.74 “Harp”

33. Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet (no.11) in F minor, op.95 “Serioso”

34. Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet (no.12) in E flat major, op.127

35. Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet (no.13) in B flat major, op.130

36. Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet (no.14) in C sharp minor, op.131

37. Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet (no.15) in A minor, op.132

38. Ludwig Van Beethoven Grosse Fuge, op.133

39. Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartet (no.16) in F major, op.135

40. Alban Berg String Quartet, op.3

41. Alban Berg Lyric Suite

42. Jonathon Berger Eli Eli

43. Jonathon Berger Miracle and Mud

44. Jonathon Berger Doubles

45. Lennox Berkeley String Quartet No.2, op.15

46. Michael Berkeley Magnetic Field (1995)

47. Easley Blackwood String Quartet No.1, op.4

48. Easley Blackwood String Quartet No.2, op.6

49. Easley Blackwood String Quartet No.3, op.42

50. Alexander Borodin String Quartet No.1 in A major

51. Alexander Borodin String Quartet No.2 in B major

52. Johannes Brahms String Quartet in C minor, op.51 no.1

53. Johannes Brahms String Quartet in A minor, op 51 no.2

54. Johannes Brahms String Quartet No.3 in B flat major, op. 67

55. Benjamin Britten String Quartet No.1 in D major op.25 (1941)

56. Benjamin Britten String Quartet No.2 in C major op.36 (1945)

57. Benjamin Britten String Quartet No.3 in G major op.94 (1975)

58. Benjamin Britten Three Divertimenti (March, Waltz, Burlesque

59. Gavin Bryars String Quartet No.1 “Between the National and the Bristol” (1985)

60. Gavin Bryars String Quartet No.2 (1990)

61. Gavin Bryars String Quartet No.3 (1998)

62. John Cage String Quartet in Four Parts

63. John Cage Four

64. John Cage (arr. Justin Martin) In a Landscape

65. Elliott Carter String Quartet No.1 (1951)

66. Elliott Carter String Quartet No.2 (1959)

67. Elliott Carter String Quartet No.3 (1971)

68. Elliott Carter String Quartet No.4 (1986)

69. Elliott Carter String Quartet No.5 (1995)

70. Benet Casablancas Five Interludes – Quasi Variazioni (1983)

71. Benet Casablancas String Quartet No.2 (1992)

72. Benet Casablancas String Quartet No.3 “Raging in the Dark” (2009)

73. Benet Casablancas Encore for Arditti

74. John Casken String Quartet No.2 in D major

75. George Whitfield Chadwick String Quartet No.4 in E minor

76. Mikalojus Ciurlionis String Quartet in C minor

77. Mikalojus Ciurlionis Theme and Variations in B minor

78. Mikalojus Ciurlionis Canon in C minor, Canon in B flat major, Fugue in G major, Fugue in F sharp minor

79. Chick Corea The Adventures of Hippocrates for String Quartet

80. Ronald Corp String Quartet No.1 “The Bustard”

81. Ronald Corp String Quartet No.2

82. Henry Cowell Quartet Euphometic

83. George Crumb Black Angels

84. Richard Danielpour String Quartet No.2  “Shadow Dances”

85. Richard Danielpour String Quartet No.3 “Psalms of Sorrow”

86. Richard Danielpour String Quartet No.4 “Apparitions”

87. Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No.1

88. Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No.2

89. Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No.3

90. Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No.4 “Children’s Games”

91. Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No.5 “Lighthouses of Shetland and Orkney”

92. Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No.6

93. Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No.7 “Metafore Sul Borromini”

94. Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No.8

95. Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No.9

96. Peter Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartet No.10

97. Claude Debussy String quartet in G minor, op.10

98. Alexandre Delgado String Quartet (1991)

99. Frederick Delius String Quartet (1916, rev. 1918)

100.               Jacob Druckman String Quartet No.2 (1966)

101.               Jacob Druckman String Quartet No.3 (1981)

102.               Tan Dun Ghost Opera (for string quartet and pipa)

103.               Tan Dun A Chinese Home (for string quartet and pipa)

104.               Pascal Dusapin String Quartet No.1 (1982-96)

105.               Pascal Dusapin String Quartet No.2 “Time Zone” (1989)

106.               Pascal Dusapin String Quartet No.3 (1993)

107.               Pascal Dusapin String Quartet No.4 (1997)

108.               Pascal Dusapin String Quartet No.5 (2004-5)

109.               Antonin Dvorak String Quartet in D major (no opus number)

110.               Antonin Dvorak String Quartet in A major op.2

111.               Antonin Dvorak String Quartet in B flat major op.4 B17

112.               Antonin Dvorak String Quartettsatz: andante appassionato

113.               Antonin Dvorak String Quartet in F minor op.9

114.               Antonin Dvorak String Quartet in E minor op.10

115.               Antonin Dvorak String Quartet in A minor op.12

116.               Antonin Dvorak String Quartet in A minor op.16

117.               Antonin Dvorak String Quartet in D minor op.34

118.               Antonin Dvorak String Quartet in E flat major op.51 “Slavonic”

119.               Antonin Dvorak Two Waltzes arranged for String Quartet op.54

120.               Antonin Dvorak String Quartet in C major op.61

121.               Antonin Dvorak String Quartet in E major op.80 B57

122.               Antonin Dvorak String Quartet in F major op.96 “American”

123.               Antonin Dvorak String Quartet in A flat major op.105

124.               Antonin Dvorak String Quartet in G major op.106

125.               Antonin Dvorak String Quartettsatz in F major B120

126.               Antonin Dvorak Zypressen (Liebeslieder) for String Quartet B152

127.               Klaus Egge String Quartet No.1, op.5

128.               Sir Edward Elgar String Quartet in E minor, op.83 (1918)

129.               Benjamin Franklin String Quartet No.2 “Open Strings” – authenticity uncertain

130.               Morton Feldman String Quartet No.2

131.               Morton Feldman 2 Pieces for String Quartet (1954)

132.               Morton Feldman For String Quartet (1956)

133.               Morton Felman 3 Pieces for String Quartet (1956)

134.               Arthur Foote String Quartet No.3 in D major

135.               Jefferson Freedman String Quartet No.2

136.               Jefferson Freeman String Quartet No.3

137.               Kenneth Fuchs String Quartet No.2 “Where have you been”

138.               Kenneth Fuchs String Quartet No.3 “Whispers of Heavenly Death”

139.               Kenneth Fuchs String Quartet No.4 “Bergonzi”

140.               Philip Glass String Quartet No.1

141.               Philip Glass String Quartet No.2 “Company”

142.               Philip Glass String Quartet No.3 “Mishima”

143.               Philip Glass String Quartet No.4 “Buczak”

144.               Philip Glass String Quartet No.5

145.               Philip Glass Suite from “Bent” for string quartet

146.               Henryk Gorecki String Quartet No.1 “Already it is dusk”

147.               Henryk Gorecki String Quartet No.2 “Quasi una fantasia”

148.               Glenn Gould String Quartet, op.1

149.               Edvard Grieg String Quartet No.1 in G minor, op.27

150.               Charles Tomlinson Griffes Sketches based on Indian Themes for String Quartet

151.               Pavel Haas String Quartet No.1 in C sharp minor, op.3 (1920)

152.               Pavel Haas String Quartet No.2 “From the Monkey Mountains”, op.7 (1925)

153.               Pavel Haas String Quartet No.3, op.15 (1937-38)

154.               Sofia Gubaidulina String Quartet No.2

155.               Sofia Gubaidulina String Quartet No.4

156.               Kimmo Hakola String Quartet No.1

157.               John Harbison String Quartet No.4

158.               Roy Harris Three Variations on a Theme – String Quartet No.2

159.               Jonathon Harvey String Quartet No.1 (1977)

160.               Jonathon Harvey String Quartet No.2 (1988)

161.               Jonathon Harvey String Quartet No.3 (1995)

162.               Jonathon Harvey String Quartet No.4 with live electronics (2003)

163.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E flat major, op.0

164.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in B flat major, op.1 no.1

165.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E flat major, op.1 no.2

166.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D major, op.1 no.3

167.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in G major, op.1 no.4

168.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in C major, op.1 no.6

169.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in A major, op.2 no.1

170.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E major, op.2 no. 2

171.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in F major, op.2 no.4

172.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in B flat major, op.2 no.6

173.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in C major, op.9 no.1

174.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E flat major, op.9 no.2

175.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in G major, op.9 no.3

176.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D minor, op.9 no.4

177.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in B flat major, op.9, no.5

178.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in A major, op.9 no.6

179.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E major, op.17 no.1

180.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in F major, op.17 no.2

181.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E flat major, op.17 no.3

182.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in C minor, op.17 no.4

183.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in G major, op.17 no.5

184.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D major, op.17 no.6

185.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E flat major, op.20 no.1

186.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in C major, op.20 no.2

187.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in G minor, op.20 no.3

188.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D major, op.20 no.4

189.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in F minor, op.20 no.5

190.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in A major, op.20 no.6

191.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in B minor, op.33 no.1

192.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E flat major, op.33 no.2

193.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in C major, op.33 no.3

194.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in B flat major, op.33 no.4

195.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in G major, op.33 no.5

196.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D major, op.33 no.6

197.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D minor, op.42

198.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in B flat major, op.50 no.1

199.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in C major, op.50 no.2

200.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E flat major, op.50 no.3

201.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in F sharp minor, op.50 no.4

202.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in F major, op.50 no.5

203.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D major, op.50 no.6

204.               Joseph Haydn The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross, op.51 for String Quartet and Spoken Voice

205.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in G major, op.54 no.1

206.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in C major, op.54 no.2

207.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E major, op.54 no.3

208.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in A major, op.55 no.1

209.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in F minor, op.55 no.2

210.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in B flat major, op.55 no.3

211.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in C major, op.64 no.1

212.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in B minor, op.64 no.2

213.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in B flat major, op.64 no.3

214.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in G manor, op.64 no.4

215.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D major, op.64 no.5

216.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E flat major, op.64 no.6

217.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in B flat major, op.71 no.1

218.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D major, op.71 no.2

219.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E flat major, op.71 no.3

220.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in C major, op.74 no.1

221.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in F major, op74 no.2

222.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in G minor, op.74 no.3

223.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in G major, op.76 no.1

224.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D minor, op.76 no.2

225.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in C major, op.76 no.3

226.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in B flat major, op.76 no.4

227.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D major, op.76 no.5

228.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E flat major, op.76 no.6

229.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in G major, op.77 no.1

230.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in F major, op.77 no.2

231.               Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D minor, op.103 (unfinished)

232.               Paavo Heininen String Quartet No.1, op.32c

233.               Andrew Imbrie String Quartet No.4

234.               Charles Ives String Quartet No.1 “From the Salvation Army” (1897-1900)

235.               Charles Ives String Quartet No.2 (1913-15)

236.               Colin Jacobsen Achilles’ Heel

237.               Colin Jacobsen Brooklesca

238.               Leos Janacek String Quartet No.1 “Kreutzer Sonata”

239.               Leos Janacek String Quartet No.2 “Intimate Letters”

240.               Leos Janacek String Quartet No.3

241.               Alfred Janson String Quartet

242.               Ben Johnston String Quartet No.1 “Nine Variations”

243.               Ben Johnston String Quartet No.2

244.               Ben Johnston “Crossings” String Quartet No.3

245.               Ben Johnston “Crossings”

246.               Ben Johnston “Crossings” String Quartet No.4 “Amazing Grace”

247.               Ben Johnston String Quartet No.5

248.               Ben Johnston String Quartet No.9

249.               Ben Johnston String Quartet No.10

250.               Giya Kancheli – Night Prayers

251.               Leon Kirchner String Quartet No.1

252.               Leon Kirchner String Quartet No.2

253.               Leon Kirchner String Quartet No.3

254.               Leon Kirchner String Quartet No.4

255.               Erich Korngold String Quartet No.1 in A major, op.16

256.               Erich Korngold String Quartet No.2 in E flat major, op.26

257.               Erich Korngold String Quartet No.3 in D major, op.34

258.               Jukka Koskinen String Quartet

259.               Gyorgy Kurtag String Quartet op.1 (1959)

260.               Gyorgy Kurtag Homage a Mihaly Andras “Twelve MIcroludes for String Quartet”, op.13 (1977-78)

261.               Gyorgy Kurtag Officium Breve in memorium Andreae Szervanszky, op.28 (1988-89)

262.               Johan Kvandal String Quartet No.3, op.60

263.               Thomas Larcher String Quartet No.1 “Cold Farmer”

264.               Thomas Larcher String Quartet No.2 “Ixxu”

265.               Fred Lerdahl First String Quartet

266.               Gyorgy Ligeti String Quartet No.1 “Metamorphoses nocturnes”

267.               Gyorgy Ligeti String Quartet No.2

268.               Gyorgy Ligeti Andante and Allegretto

269.               Charles Martin Loeffler Music for Four Stringed Instruments for String Quartet

270.               Witold Lutoslawski String Quartet (1965)

271.               Ernest MacMillan String Quartet in C minor

272.               Ernest MacMillan Two Sketches for a String Quartet based on a French Canadian Air

273.               Donald Martino String Quartet

274.               Daniel Gregory Mason String Quartet on Negro Themes in G minor

275.               Tigran Masurian String Quartet No.2, In memory of Eduard Chagagortzian

276.               Richard Meale String Quartet No.2

277.               Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet in E flat major (no opus) (1823)

278.               Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No.1 in E flat major, op.12 (1829)

279.               Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No.2 in A minor, op.13 (1827)

280.               Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No.3 in D major, op.44 no.1 (1838)

281.               Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No.4 in E minor, op.44 no.2 (1837)

282.               Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No.5 in E flat major, op.44 no.3 (1838)

283.               Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No.6 in F minor, op.80 (1847) “Requiem for Fanny”

284.               Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet Four Pieces for String Quartet including Theme and Variations op.81 no.1, Scherzo op.81 no.2, Capriccio op.81 no.3 and Fugue op.81 no4

285.               Krzysztof Meyer String Quartet No.5, op.42 (1977)

286.               Krzysztof Meyer String Quartet No.6, op.51 (1981)

287.               Krzysztof Meyer String Quartet No.8, op.67 (1985)

288.               Krzysztof Meyer String Quartet No.9, op.74 (1990)

289.               Krzysztof Meyer String Quartet No.11 op.95 (2001)

290.               Krzysztof Meyer String Quartet No.12 op.103 (2005)

291.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in G major, K.80 (73f)

292.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento for String Quartet in D major, K.136 (125a)

293.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento for String Quartet in B flat major, K.137 (125b)

294.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento for String Quartet in D major, K.138 (125c)

295.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in D major, K.155 (134a)

296.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in G major, K.156 (134b)

297.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in C major, K.157

298.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in F major, K.158

299.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in B flat major, K.159

300.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in E flat major, K.160 (159a)

301.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in F major, K.168

302.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in A major, K.169

303.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in C major, K.170

304.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in E flat major, K.171

305.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in B flat Major, K.172

306.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in D minor, K.173

307.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in G major, K.387

308.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in D minor, K.421

309.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in B flat major, K.458 “The Hunt”

310.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in E flat major, K.428 (421b)

311.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in A major, K.464

312.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in C major, K.465 “Dissonance”

313.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in D major, K.499 “Hoffmeister”

314.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in D major, K.575 “First Prussian”

315.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in D major, K.589 “Second Prussian”

316.               Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in D major, K.590 “Third Prussian”

317.               Nikolai Myaskovsky String Quartet No.1 in A minor, op.33 no.1 (1929-30)

318.               Nikolai Myaskovsky String Quartet No.2 in C minor, op.33 no.2 (1930)

319.               Nikolai Myaskovsky String Quartet No.3 in D minor, op.33 no.3 (1930)

320.               Nikolai Myaskovsky String Quartet No.4 in F minor, op.33 no.4 (1930)

321.               Nikolai Myaskovsky String Quartet No.5 in E minor, op.47 (1938-39)

322.               Nikolai Myaskovsky String Quartet No.6 in G minor, op.51 (1941)

323.               Nikolai Myaskovsky String Quartet No.7 in F major, op.55 (1941)

324.               Nikolai Myaskovsky String Quartet No.8 in F sharp minor, op.59 (1942)

325.               Nikolai Myaskovsky String Quartet No.9 in D minor, op.62 (1943)

326.               Nikolai Myaskovsky String Quartet No.10 in F major, op.67 no.1 (1945)

327.               Nikolai Myaskovsky String Quartet No.11 in E flat major, op.67 no.2 (1945)

328.               Nikolai Myaskovsky String Quartet No.12 in G major, op.77 (1947)

329.               Nikolai Myaskovsky String Quartet No.13 in A minor, op.86 (1950)

330.               Carl Nielsen String Quartet in F minor, op.5, FS 11

331.               Carl Nielsen String Quartet in E flat major, op.14 FS 23

332.               Carl Nielsen String Quartet in G minor, op.13, FS 4

333.               Carl Nielsen String Quartet in F major, op.44, FS 36

334.               Carl Nielsen String Quartet in G major, FS 5

335.               Michael Nyman String Quartet No.1

336.               Michael Nyman String Quartet No.2

337.               Michael Nyman String Quartet No.3

338.               Niccolo Paganini String Quartet No.1 in D minor, MS 20

339.               Niccolo Paganini String Quartet No.2 in E flat major MS 20

340.               Niccolo Paganini String Quartet No.3 in A minor MS 20

341.               Joao Pedro Oliveira Peregrinacao for string quartet (1995)

342.               Walter Piston String Quartet No.1 (1933)

343.               Walter Piston String Quartet No.3

344.               Walter Piston String Quartet No.5

345.               Ildebrando Pizzetti String Quartet No.1 in A major (1906)

346.               Ildebrando Pizzetti String Quartet No.2 in D (1932-33)

347.               Quincy Porter String Quartet No.1 in E minor (1922-23)

348.               Quincy Porter String Quartet No.2 (1925)

349.               Quincy Porter String Quartet No.3 (1930)

350.               Quincy Porter String quartet No.4 (1931)

351.               David L. Post String Quartet No.2 (2001)

352.               David L. Post String Quartet No.3 (2003)

353.               David L. Post String Quartet No.4 “Three Photographs of Abelardo Morell” (2005)

354.               Sergei Prokofiev String Quartet No.1 in B minor, op.50

355.               Sergei Prokofiev String Quartet No.2 in F major, on Karabadian themes, op.92

356.               John Prokop New England, late Summer (2003)

357.               Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F major

358.               Steve Reich Different Trains (for string quartet and tape)

359.               Steve Reich WTC 9/11

360.               Terry Riley Salome Dances for Peace

361.               Terry Riley Requiem for Adam

362.               George Rochberg String Quartet No.3

363.               Eugenio Manuel Rodrigues Mata Hari for string quartet (1994)

364.               Miquel Roger String Quartet No.2 (1994)

365.               Edmund Rubbra String Quartet No.1 in F minor, op.35

366.               Edmund Rubbra String Quartet No.3 op.112

367.               Edmund Rubbra String Quartet No.4, op.150

368.               Camille Saint-Saens String Quartet No.1 in E minor, op.112

369.               Camille Saint-Saens String Quartet No.2 in G major, op.153

370.               Albert Sarda String Quartet (1978)

371.               Robert Saxton Songs, Dances and Ellipses for String Quartet

372.               Hans Schaeuble String Quartet op.19

373.               Erich Schmid String Quartet op.4

374.               Arnold Schoenberg String Quartet No.1 in D minor, op.7 (1905)

375.               Arnold Schoenberg String Quartet No.2 in F sharp minor, op.10  (1908)

376.               Arnold Schoenberg String Quartet No.3, op.30 (1927)

377.               Arnold Schoenberg String Quartet No.4, op.37 (1936)

378.               Arnold Schoenberg Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra in B flat major (1933)

379.               Alfred Schnittke String Quartet No.1 (1966)

380.               Alfred Schnittke String Quartet No.2 (1981)

381.               Alfred Schnittke String Quartet No.3 (1983)

382.               Alfred Schnittke String Quartet No.4 (1989)

383.               Franz Schubert String Quartet No.1 in various keys, D.18

384.               Franz Schubert String Quartet No.2 in C major, D.32

385.               Franz Schubert String Quartet No.3 in B flat major, D.36

386.               Franz Schubert String Quartet No.4 in C major, D.46

387.               Franz Schubert String Quartet No.5 in B flat major, D.68

388.               Franz Schubert String Quartet No.6 in D major, D.74

389.               Franz Schubert String Quartet in D major, D.94

390.               Franz Schubert String Quartet Movement in C minor, D.103

391.               Franz Schubert String Quartet String Quartet in B flat major, D.112

392.               Franz Schubert String Quartet in G minor, D.173

393.               Franz Schubert String Quartet No.10 in E flat, D.87

394.               Franz Schubert String Quartet No 12 in C minor, D.703 “Quartettsatz”

395.               Franz Schubert String Quartet No.13 in A minor, D.804 “Rosamunde”

396.               Franz Schubert String Quartet in E major, D.353

397.               Franz Schubert String Quartet No.14 in D minor, D.810 “Death and the Maiden”

398.               Franz Schubert String Quartet No.15 in G, D.887

399.               Gunther Schuller String Quartet No.2

400.               Robert Schumann String Quartet No.1 in A minor, op.41 no.1

401.               Robert Schumann String Quartet No.2 in F major, op.41 no.2

402.               Robert Schumann String Quartet No.3 in A major, op.41 no.3

403.               Meinrad Schutter String Quartet

404.               Elliott Schwartz Bellagio Variations

405.               Peter Sculthorpe Irkanda IV (1961, arranged for string quartet 1991)

406.               Peter Sculthorpe Small Town (1963, arranged for string quartet 1980 by David Matthews)

407.               Peter Sculthorpe String Quartet No.6 (1964-65)

408.               Peter Sculthorpe String Quartet No.7 (1966)

409.               Peter Sculthorpe String Quartet No.8 (1968)

410.               Peter Sculthorpe String Quartet No.9 (1975)

411.               Peter Sculthorpe String Quartet No.10 (1983)

412.               Peter Sculthorpe String Quartet No.11 “Jabiru Dreaming”

413.               Peter Sculthorpe String Quartet No.14 “Quamby” (1998)

414.               Peter Sculthorpe String Quartet No.15 (1999)

415.               Peter Sculthorpe String Quartet No.16 (2005)

416.               Peter Sculthorpe String Quartet No.17 (2007)

417.               Peter Sculthorpe Hill-Song 1 (1992)

418.               Peter Sculthorpe Hill-Song 2 (1993)

419.               Peter Sculthorpe Earth Cry (1886 arr. for string quartet 1994)

420.               Peter Sculthorpe Little Song from String Quartet No.1 (1945/96)

421.               Peter Sculthorpe To Meadows from String Quartet No.3 (1949/96)

422.               Peter Sculthorpe Pastorale from String Quartet No.3 & 4 (1947-49/96)

423.               Peter Sculthorpe Morning Song (1966 arr. for string quartet 1970)

424.               Peter Sculthorpe Autumn Song (1966 arr. for string quartet 1986)

425.               Peter Sculthorpe Saibai (1987 arr. for string quartet 1994)

426.               Elliott Sharp Eye in the Sky

427.               Elliott Sharp Homage James Tenny

428.               Elliott Sharp Light in Fog

429.               Elliott Sharp 95 for EC from E#

430.               Elliott Sharp Dispersion of Seeds

431.               Elliott Sharp Seize Seas Seeth Seen

432.               Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No.1 in C major op.49 (1938)

433.               Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No.2 in A major op.68 (1944)

434.               Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No.3 in F major op.73 (1946)

435.               Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No.4 in D major op.83 (1949)

436.               Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No.5 in B flat major op.92 (1952)

437.               Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No.6 in G major op.101 (1956)

438.               Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No.7 in F sharp minor op.108 (1960)

439.               Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No.8 in C minor op.110 (1960)

440.               Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No.9 in E flat major op.117 (1964)

441.               Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No.10 in A flat major op.118

442.               Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No.11 in F minor op.122 (1966)

443.               Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No.12 in D flat major op.133 (1968)

444.               Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No.13 in B flat minor op.138 (1970)

445.               Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 14 in F sharp major op.142 (1972-73)

446.               Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No.15 in E flat minor op.144 (1974)

447.               Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet Adagio (Elegy) for String Quartet after Katerina’s Aria from Scene 3 of the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District op.29

448.               Dmitri Shostakovich Allegretto (Polka) for String Quartet from the ballet The Age of Gold op.22

449.               Jean Sibelius String Quartet in D minor, op.56 “Voces Intimae”

450.               Robert Sirota Triptych

451.               Josep Soler String Quartet No.1 (1974)

452.               Josep Soler String Quartet No.5 (1994)

453.               Igor Stravinsky Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914)

454.               Igor Stravinsky Concertino (1920)

455.               Igor Stravinsky Double Canon for string quartet “Raoul Dufy in Memorium” (1959)

456.               Karol Szymanowski String Quartet No.1 in C, op.37 (1917)

457.               Karol Szymanowski String Quartet No.2, op.56 (1927)

458.               Sergey Taneyev String Quartet No.2 in C major, op.5

459.               Sergey Taneyev String Quartet No.4 in A minor, op.11

460.               Alexandre Tansman String Quartet No.2 (1922)

461.               Alexandre Tansman String Quartet No.3 (1925)

462.               Alexandre Tansman Triptyque (1930)

463.               Alexandre Tansman String Quartet No.4 (1935)

464.               Alexandre Tansman String Quartet No.5 (1940)

465.               Alexandre Tansman String Quartet No.6 (1944)

466.               Alexandre Tansman String Quartet No.7 (1947)

467.               Alexandre Tansman String Quartet No.8 (1956)

468.               Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovssky String Quartet No.1 in D major op.11

469.               Luis Tinoco String Quartet (1995)

470.               Sir Michael Tippett String Quartet No.3 (1945-46)

471.               Sir Michael Tippett String Quartet No.5 (1990-91)

472.               David Toub “mf” (1996-97)

473.               Joan Tower String Quartet No.2 “In Memory” (2002)

474.               Kojiro Umezaki (cycles) what falls must rise

475.               Juan Antonio de Vargas y Guzman Monodia – quasi un requiem for string quartet (1993)

476.               Farlein Valen String Quartet No.2, op.13

477.               Komitas Vartabed Five Armenian Folk Songs (arr. S.Aslamazian)

478.               Peteris Vasks String Quartet No.1

479.               Peteris Vasks String Quartet No.2 “Summer Tunes”

480.               Peteris Vasks String Quartet No.3

481.               Peteris Vasks String Quartet No.4

482.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.1 (1915)

483.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.2 (1915)

484.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.3 (1917)

485.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.4 (1917)

486.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.5 (1931)

487.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.6 (1938)

488.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.7 (1942)

489.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.8 (1944)

490.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.9 (1945)

491.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.10 (1946)

492.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.11 (1948)

493.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.12 (1950)

494.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.13 (1951)

495.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.14 (1953)

496.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.15 (1954)

497.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.16 (1955)

498.               Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No.17 (1957)

499.               Kevin Volans String Quartet No.2 “Hunting, Gathering”

500.               Kevin Volans String Quartet No.3 “The Songlines”

501.               William Walton String Quartet (1922)

502.               William Walton String Quartet in A minor

503.               Anton Webern Langsamer Satz in E flat major for string quartet

504.               Mieczyslaw Weinberg String Quartet No.4, op.20

505.               Mieczyslaw Weinberg String Quartet No.7 in C major, op.59

506.               Mieczyslaw Weinberg String Quartet No.11 in F major, op.89

507.               Mieczyslaw Weinberg String Quartet No.13, op.118

508.               Mieczyslaw Weinberg String Quartet No.16, op.130

509.               Dan Welcher String Quartet No.1

510.               Dan Welcher String Quartet No.2 “Harbor Music”

511.               Dan Welcher String Quartet No.3 “Cassatt”

512.               Judith Weir String Quartet

513.               Johan Wikmanson String Quartet E minor op.1 no.2

514.               Julia Wolfe Dig Deep

515.               Julia Wolfe Four Marys

516.               Julia Wolfe Early that Summer

517.               Stefan Wolpe String Quartet

518.               M.L.Wyatt In Memorium

519.               Iannis Xenakis Tetras

520.               Iannis Xenakis Tetora

521.               Iannis Xenakis ST-4/1,080262

522.               Iannis Xenakis Ergma

523.               Dmitri Yanov Yanovsky …..al niente

524.               Alexander von Zemlinsky String Quartet No.1 in A major, op.4

525.               Alexander von Zemlinsky String Quartet No.2, op.15

526.               Alexander von Zemlinsky String Quartet No.3, op.19

527.               Alexander von Zemlinsky String Quartet No.4, op.25

528.               Hao-Fu Zhang String Quartet No.2

529.               Hao-Fu Zhang String Quartet No.3