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American Romantics

Dvořák: String Quartet in F major, Op. 96, “American”
Robert Sirota: String Quartet No. 2, “American Pilgrimage”
Barber: Adagio

American String Quartet | 2018


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Schubert’s Echo

Schubert: Quartet in G, D. 887
Berg: Quartet Op. 3
Webern: Fünf Sätze (Five Movements), Op. 5

NSS Music | 2010


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Richard Danielpour: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, & 4

Danielpour's String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, & 4*
“Shadow Dances,” “Psalms of Sorrow,” and “Apparitions”
* Commissioned for the American String Quartet by the Kansas City Friends of Chamber Music

Arabesque Recordings | 2006


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Kenneth Fuchs: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, & 4

Kenneth Fuchs’ Quartets 2*, 3**, 4
*Commissioned for the American String Quartet's 20th Anniversary by Manhattan School of Music
**Dedicated to the American String Quartet

Albany | 2001


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Mozart Complete String Quartets

The complete Mozart string quartets recorded on a set of matched Stradivarius instruments. 

MusicMasters | 1998


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Tsontakis: Strings Quartets No. 3 & 4

George Tsontakis' Quartet No.3, “Coraggio”; Quartet No.4, “Beneath Thy Tenderness of Heart.” Both pieces were commissioned for the American String Quartet by a grant from Chamber Music America. Kennedy Center Friedheim Award Winner

New World Records | 1991


 

Other recordings: 

CRI (CRI SD 478)  - Adam: String Quartet (1975) commissioned for the American String Quartet by the Naumburg Foundation. Kennedy Center Friedheim Award Winner

MSR Classics (MS1261) - Cacioppo: a distant voice calling (2001) commissioned for the American String Quartet by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music. Premiered 2002 in Tucson. (This 2-disc set includes other Cacioppo works recorded by other groups.)

RCA (RL1-2354) - Corigliano: “Poem in October” for voice, string quartet, winds and piano

Nonesuch (9-79126-2) - Dvorak: Quartet in D Minor, Op. 34; Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 51

Musical Heritage Society  (MHS 51230ZZ) - Prokofiev: Quartet No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 50; Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92

Nonesuch (9-79145-1) - Schoenberg: Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra. New York Chamber Symphony, Gerard Schwartz, conductor