Repertoire from past seasons and ‘special projects’
2006/2007
Bartok	Quartet No. 2
Beethoven	Quartet in Eb Major, op 127
Brahms	Quartet in C-minor, Op. 51, No. 1
David Horne	New quartet (composed for the Brentanos)
Haydn	Quartet in B minor, op 64, No 2
Mendelssohn	String Quartet in Eb Major, op 44, No 3
Schubert	Quartet Movement in C minor (“Quartettsatz”)
Mozart	String Quartet in B-flat major, KV 589
Leos Janacek	String Quartet No. 2 ("Intimate Letters")
Steve Mackey	Smoke Fragments
Charles Wuorinen	Divertimento
Josquin des Prez/Wuorinen	“Josquiniana”
Gesualdo/Bruce Adolphe	Madrigals
Renaissance work	(arranged for quartet by Mark Steinberg)
2005/2006
Bartok	Quartet No. 2 or 6
Beethoven	Quartet in A-minor, Op. 132
Brahms	Quartet in C-minor, Op. 51, No. 1
Debussy	Quartet
Haydn	Quartet in Bb-Major, Op. 64, No. 3
Ligeti	Quartet No. 2
Shostakovich	Quartet No 15 in Eb-minor, Op. 144
2004/2005
Beethoven	Quartet in A-Minor, Op. 132
Schubert	Quartet in D-minor (“Death and the Maiden”)
Gesualdo (arranged by Bruce Adolphe)	Motets
Mozart	Quartet in A-Major, K. 464
Webern	String Quartet, Op. 28
Webern	Other works for string quartet
2003/2004
Haydn	op 33 No 1 (20’)
Berg	Suite Lyrique (30’)
Schubert	"Death and the Maiden" (40’)
Special Projects
Bach Perspectives: Ten Composers React to the “Art of the Fugue” The Brentano Quartet commissioned the following ten contemporary composers to write short works in response to specific sections from Bach’s masterpiece: Bruce Adolphe, Steve Mackey, Shulamit Ran, David Horne, Wynton Marsalis, Sofia Gubaidulina, Eric Zivian, Nicholas Maw, Chou Wen-chung, and Charles Wuorinen. The resulting companion works are performed together with Bach’s original.
Haydn’s “Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross” The Brentano Quartet commissioned Pulitzer Prize-winning and former National Poet Laureate Mark Strand to write poems appropriate to Haydn’s depiction of Christ’s final words. The alternation of music and words provides for a profound and deeply moving experience. Presenter provides the reader for the concert. (Note: a performance CD and explanatory video of this project are available upon request)
Anton Webern The Brentano Quartet will juxtapose most of Webern’s output for string quartet with music of Mozart and newly commissioned poetry by Pulitzer Prize-winning and former National Poet Laureate Mark Strand.