Kurtág – Lutoslawski – Gubaidulina – Works for String Quartet
Record number: Montaigne MO 782147, Naïve MO 782147CD
Type of record: CD
Publishing year: 2001
Duration: 71:59

György Kurtág: Quartetto d’archi [String quartet], op. 1 (13:52)
1 I. Poco agitato (0:56)
2 II. Con moto (1:49)
3 III. Vivacissimo (2:59)
4 IV. Con spirito (1:40)
5 V. Molto ostinato (2:02)
6 VI. Adagio (4:14)
Arditti Quartet David Alberman (violin); Irvine Arditti (violin); Levine Andrade (viola); Rohan de Saram (violoncello)

György Kurtág: Hommage à Mihály András – 12 mikrolúdium vonósnégyesre [Hommage à Mihály András – 12 microludes for string quartets], op. 13 (9:43)
7 I. [w = 20] (0:42)
8 II. [w = 60-80] (quasi allegretto) (0:27)
9 III. q = 160–152 (0:27)
10 IV. Presto (0:12)
11 V. Lontano, calmo, appena sentito (1:44)
12 VI. [w = 20-30] (1:11)
13 VII. (0:50)
14 VIII. Con slancio (0:18)
15 IX. Leggiero/ Pesante, con moto (0:52)
16 X. Molto agitato (0:28)
17 XI. [w = 20] (1:22)
18 XII. Leggiero, con moto, non dolce (0:39)
Arditti Quartet David Alberman (violin); Irvine Arditti (violin); Levine Andrade (viola); Rohan de Saram (violoncello)

19 György Kurtág: Officum breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, op. 28 (11:29)
Arditti Quartet David Alberman (violin); Irvine Arditti (violin); Levine Andrade (viola); Rohan de Saram (violoncello)

Witold Lutoslawski: Quatuor à cordes (25:33)
20 Introductory movement (8:43)
21 Main movement (16:49)
Arditti Quartet David Alberman (violin); Irvine Arditti (violin); Levine Andrade (viola); Rohan de Saram (violoncello)

22 Sofia Gubaïdulina: Streichquartett, no. 2 (10:41)
Arditti Quartet David Alberman (violin); Irvine Arditti (violin); Levine Andrade (viola); Rohan de Saram (violoncello)

Place and time of recording: Studio Stolberger Straße (Cologne) (1–19, 22), Studio des Deutschlandfunk (Cologne) (20–21), July, 1990