Current repertoire

Repertoire 2011/2012

The repertoire and sample programmes listed below are available for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. If you are a presenter with specific requirements the Quartet members are happy to consider other repertoire and to work with you to create programmes suitable for your event or audience.

Standard repertoire

• Mendelssohn – Capriccio in E minor Op 81 No 3 (1843)
• Bartok – String Quartet No. 4 [25']
• Beethoven* – String Quartet in A Opus 18 No 5
• Beethoven – String Quartet Opus 59 No 1
• Beethoven – String Quartet Opus 59 No 2
• Beethoven – String Quartet Opus 131
• Dvořák – String Quartet No 14 in A flat Opus 105
• Haydn – String Quartet Opus 20 No 4 in D major
• Mozart – String Quartet in D K575 (Prussian No 1)
• Ligeti – String Quartet No. 1 (Métamorphoses nocturnes)
• Schubert – String Quartet No 14 in D minor D810 (Death and the Maiden)
• Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 9 [24']

* In 2012 the New Zealand String Quartet will present a complete Beethoven String Quartet cycle and all Beethoven String Quartets will be available for programming.

Contemporary repertoire

• Tan Dun (Chinese, b.1957) – Eight Colors [16’]
• Toru Takemitsu (Japanese, 1930-1996) – A way a Lone
• Gao Ping (Chinese, living in NZ b. 1970) – Bright Light and Cloud Shadows [12’]
• Chinary Ung (Cambodian, b. 1942) – SPIRAL III [13’]
• Zhou Long (Chinese, b. 1953) – Song of the Ch’in [8’]

String Quartets by New Zealand composers

• Gao Ping (Chinese, living in NZ b. 1970) – Bright Light and Cloud Shadows [12’]
• Jack Body (b. 1944) – Three Transcriptions for string quartet (1987) [15’]
• Michael Norris: – Exitus for string quartet (2009) [20’]
• John Psathas – Abhisheka for string quartet (1996) [8’]
• John Psathas – Kartsigar for string quartet (2005) [17’]
• Ross Harris – Variation 25 for string quartet (2008) [8’]
• Douglas Lilburn (1915 – 2001) – String Quartet in E minor (1946) [19’]

Chamber works including other musicians/guest artists

• Samuel Barber – Dover Beach for string quartet and baritone [11’]
• Dohnanyi – Piano Quintet No. 2 in E♭ minor, Op. 26
• Brahms – Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor Op. 25 (1861)
• Schoenberg – String Quartet No 2 in F sharp minor Opus 10 (with soprano)
• Ross Harris The Abiding Tides for string quartet and soprano (2009) [22’]
• Gillian Whitehead Puhake ki te rangi (2006) [16’] and Hineputehue (2002) [25’] for string quartet and Taonga Puoro (Maori instruments)

Sample programmes