Repertoire String Quartets

 

First Round (pre-selection)

Audio-Video (DVD) recording  of one string quartet  each from groups A, B, and C (unedited  live videos only. It is allowed to make one video per movement or one video per piece.).

Composer - Works

 

A) Joseph Haydn: One string quartet from groups 1, 2 or 3 (may also be performed in one of the other rounds)*
*For the grouping please check the table below!

B) Franz Schubert:

D 804  A minor (Rosamunde), 1^st movement
D 810  D minor (Death and the Maiden), 1^st movement
D 887  G major, 1^st movement

C) One freely chosen piece (published work; complete with all movements)

 

Second Round - online

One string quartet  each from groups D, E, and  F.

The order of the chosen works is to be set by the ensemble.

Composer - Works

 

D) Joseph Haydn: One string quartet  from groups; 1, 2 or 3 excluding the quartets performed  in the semi-final and final rounds
*For the grouping please check the table below!

E) Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy:

op.12     E flat major
op.13     A minor
op.44/1  D major
op.44/2  E minor
op.44/3  E flat major
op.80     F minor

Robert Schumann:

op.41/1  A minor
op.41/2  F major
op.41/3  A major

Johannes Brahms:

op. 51/1 C minor
op. 51/2 A minor
op. 67    B flat major

Antonin Dvořák:

op. 34    D minor
op. 51    E flat major
op. 61    C major
op. 80    E major
op. 96    F major
op. 105  A flat major
op. 106  G major

F)  Commissioned piece (max. 10 min):

 

Semi-final

One string  quartet  each from  groups G, H.

The order of the chosen works is to be set by the ensemble.

Composer - Works

 

G) Joseph Haydn: One string quartet  from groups 1, 2 or 3 excluding the quartets performed  in the second and final rounds*
*For the grouping please check the table below!

H) Ludwig van Beethoven:

op. 18/1 F major
op. 18/2 G major
op. 18/3 D major
op. 18/4 C minor
op. 18/5 A major
op. 18/6 B flat major
op. 59/1 F major
op. 59/2 E minor
op. 59/3 C major
op. 74 E flat major
op. 95 F minor
op. 127 E flat major
op. 130 B flat major including "Grand Fugue" as final movement
op. 131  C sharp minor
op. 132 A minor
op. 135 F major

 

Final round

One string quartet  each from groups J, K and  L.

The order of the chosen works is to be set by the ensemble.

Composer - Works

 

J) Joseph Haydn:

One string quartet  from groups 1, 2, or 3 excluding the quartets performed  in the second and the semi-final rounds
*For the grouping please check the table below!

K) Wolfgang A. Mozart:

One of the 23 string quartets

L) Bela Bartok:

1^st string quartet  op.7   Sz 40 (1908–1909)
2^nd string quartet op.17 Sz 67 (1915–1917)
3^rd string quartet  Sz 85 (1927)
4^th string quartet  Sz 91 (1928)
5^th string quartet  Sz 102 (1934)
6^th string quartet  Sz 114 (1939)

Alban Berg:

string quartet op.3
"Lyric Suite for String Quartet"

Rainer Bischof¹: string quartet op.58

Henri Dutilleux:

string quartet
"Ainsis la Nuit"

Gottfried v. Einem:

3^rd string quartet
5^th string quartet

Iván Eröd¹:

3^rd string quartet

Ernst Krenek:

3^rd string quartet
7^th string quartet

György Ligeti:

1^st string quartet
2^nd string quartet

Witold Lutoskawski:

string quartet

Arnold Schönberg:

1^st string quartet
3^rd string quartet
4^th string quartet

Dmitri Schostakowitsch:

op.138 B flat minor
op.142 F sharp major
op.144 E flat minor

Karl Schiske:

1^st string quartet
2^nd string quartet

Erich Urbanner¹:

3^rd string quartet
4^th string quartet
5^th string quartet
6^th string quartet

Anton Webern:

op.28
op.5 and op.9 (if selected both works must be played)

Egon Wellesz¹:

6th string quartet

Alexander Zemlinsky:

2^nd string quartet
3^rd  string quartet
4^th  string quartet

1 These works have been published by Doblinger Music Publishing Doblinger Music Publishing. 

 

*Grouping of the String Quartets of J. Haydn

From the following  groups  1, 2, and 3, ONE WORK EACH is to be prepared and to be presented, with the decision on which of the three quartets is to be played in each round left up to each ensemble. One of these three pieces may also be used in the first round (pre-selection DVD).

Group - Works:

1: Hob: III /1-43  (op.1 to op.42, excluding op. 3)

2: Hob: III /44-74 (op.50 to op.74, excluding op.51)

3: Hob: III/75-83    (op.76, op.77 and op.103)