microcosmos

repertoire

2025

Béla Bartók - String Quartet No. 2

Dimitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 11

Osvaldo Golijov - Tenebrae


2024

Ned Rorem - String Quartet No. 4

Béla Bartok - String Quartet No. 1


2023

György Ligeti - Quartet No. 1 ‘Metamorphoses Nocturnes’

Erwin Schulhoff - Five Pieces for String Quartet (1923)

Antonín Dvořák - Two Waltzes, Op. 54


2021

Thomas Adès - 'Arcadiana'

Thomas Adés - Piano Quintet

Schubert - 'Death and the Maiden'


2020

Peter Hannan - 444 (commissioned piece)

Caroline Shaw - Ent'acte


2019

Dmitri Shostakovich - Quartet No. 2 (1944)

Giancinto Scelsi - Quartet No. 1 (1944)


2018

Erich Korngold            Quartet No. 3

Bradshaw Pack          'Garlandia' (commissioned piece)


2017

Sergei Prokofiev         String Quartet No. 2



2016

Béla Bartók                String Quartet No. 6

Henri Dutilleux           'Ainsi la Nuit'

Leoš Janáček           Quartet No. 2, 'Intimate Letters'

Bohuslav Martinů      Quartet No. 4


2015

Gyorgy Ligeti             String Quartet No. 1 ‘Metamorphoses Nocturnes’

Brian Topp                 ‘Verisimilar Landscapes’

Bartók                         String Quartet No. 5


2014

Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)     

String Quartet No. 1, "Kreutzer Sonata" (1923)


2013

Béla Bartók (1881-1945)                   String Quartet No. 4 (1927)

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)           String Quartet No. 1 (1941)

                                                            String Quartet No. 2 (1946)

                                                            String Quartet No. 3 (1976)


2012

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)            String Quartet, Op.10 (1893)

Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)              Five Pieces for String Quartet (1923)

Béla Bartók (1881-1945)                     String Quartet No. 3 (1927)

Dmitri Shostakovitch (1906 – 1975)   String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor,

                                                              Op.108 (1960)                                     

       

2011

Béla Bartók        String Quartet #2, Op. 17, SZ 67 (1917)

Gyorgy Ligeti     String Quartet #1, "Metamorphoses Nocturnes" (1953-54)


2010

Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)     String Quartet No. 1 (1938) - 14’

R. Murray Schafer (1933 - )               String Quartet No. 1 (1970) - 16’

Béla Bartok (1881-1945)                    String Quartet No. 1 (1909) - 31’