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Since their formation in 1990, the Smith Quartet have established an international reputation for their dynamic and original approach to contemporary music. Browse from more than 60 composers and over a 100 pieces by the world's most exciting composers.


john
adams
John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994)  35  min.

Involves electronics
 
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b.  1947  >>  USA
 
eleanor
alberga
String Quartet no.2 (1993)  18  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1950  >>  UK
 
michael
alcorn
The Old Woman of Beare (1994)  15  min.

Involves electronics
Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1960  >>  Ireland
 
francesco
antonioni
Morphing   12  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1971  >>  Italy
 
django
bates
Pond Life (1993)  15  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
The last ten thousand million years as seen from above (1997)  2  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
Alone Again (2000)  7  min.

With Female Voice
Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
Quiet Nights - An evening of music by Django Bates  

 
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b.  1960  >>  UK
 
sally
beamish
Black, White, and Blue (1997)  14  min.

With Harpsichord
Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1956  >>  UK
 
carlo
boccadoro
Click   10  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1963  >>  Italy
 
tim
brady
Dance Me to the End of Love (1996)  20  min.

Involves electronics
With Electric Guitar
Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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  >>  Canada
 
Benjamin
Britten
String Quartet No. 3, opus 94;(1975) 
 
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  19131-1976  >>  UK
 
gavin
bryars
Between the National and the Bristol (1985)  16  min.

 
After the Requiem   16  min.

Involves electronics
With Electric Guitar
 
String Quartet No. 3   (1998) 16  min.
 
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b.  1943  >>  UK
 
martin
butler
Songs and Dances from a Haunted Place (1988)  15  min.

 
American Dream (1991)  12  min.

Involves electronics
Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
Clarinet Quintet (1995)  17  min.

With Clarinet
Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1960  >>  UK
 
john
cage
String Quartet in Four Parts (1950)  20  min.

 
Four (1989)  30  min.

 
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1912–1992  >>  USA
 
elliot
carter
Elegy (1946)  4  min.

 
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b.  1908  >>  USA
 
Jean
Catoire
String Quartet no. 14, opus 244 ;(1972) 
 
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b.  1923  >>  France
 
Dorothy
Chang
Beautiful Things ;(2005) 
Written for The SMITH Quartet
 
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b.  1970  >>  Canada
 
chick
corea
Children's Songs - Arranged by Ian Stewart (1983) 

With Soprano Sax
Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1941  >>  USA
 
george
crumb
Black Angels (1970)  22  min.

Involves electronics
 
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b.  1929  >>  USA
 
michael
daugherty
Elvis Everywhere   10  min.

Involves electronics
 
Paul Robeson Told Me (1994)  10  min.

Involves electronics
Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1954  >>  USA
 
mauritz
eggert
Little Hideaways  

 
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b.  1965  >>  Germany
 
simon
emmerson
Fields of Attraction (1997)  15  min.

Involves electronics
Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1950  >>  UK
 
Phillip
Feeney
Dances from a Knot Garden 2002
 
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b.  1954  >>  UK
 
morton
feldman
String Quartet no. 2 (1985)  310  min.
 
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1926–1987  >>  USA
 
elena
firsova
Mysteriosa - in memorium Igor Stravinsky (1982) 

 
Amoroso (1989) 

 
Compassione (1995)  10  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1950  >>  Russia
 
graham
fitkin
A Small Quartet   5  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
Another Small Quartet (1996)  5  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
Servant (1992)  16  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
Scar  

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
Slow (1990)  25  min.

With Keyboard
Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
Huoah (1991)  15  min.

With Keyboard
Written for The SMITH Quartet.
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b.  1963  >>  UK
 
Michael
Finnissy
Six Sexy Minuets and Three Trios;(2003) 
Written for The SMITH Quartet
 
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b.  1946  >>  UK
 
lukas
foss
Focus on G/C (1996)  5  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1922  >>  USA
 
chris
fox
Clarinet Quintet (1993)  8  min.

 
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  >>  UK
 
Fred
Frith
Lelekovice (String Quartet no. 1);(1991) 
 
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b.  1949  >>  UK
 
George
Gershwin
Lullaby 1919
 
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USA
 
philip
glass
String Quartet no. 1 Company   10  min.

 
String Quartet no. 2 (1966) 

 
String Quartet no. 3 Mishima   15  min.

 
String Quartet no. 4 Buczak (1989)  15  min.

 
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b.  1937  >>  USA
 
henryk
gorecki
Sonata for Two Violins (1956)  12  min.

 
Genesis - string trio (1962)  15  min.

 
Already it is Dusk (1988)  13  min.

 
Quasi una Fantasia (1991)  27  min.

 
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b.  1935  >>  Poland
 
orlando
gough
Banya (1991) 

Involves electronics
Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1953  >>  UK
 
Deirdre
Gribbin
After the Light ;(1998) 
revised 1997
 
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b.  1967  >>  UK, Northern Ireland
 
christos
hatzis
Nunavut (1994)  18  min.

Involves electronics
Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1953  >>  Canada
 
Toshi
Ichiyanagi
Musica de Ferias;(1932) 
 
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b.  1933  >>  
 
walter
hus
String Quartet no. 3 Le Miroir (1995)  25  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1959  >>  Belgium
 
charles
ives
Scherzo Holding Your Own (1914)  5  min.

 
Songs
Arranged for The SMITH Quartet by Steve Montague
 
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1874–1954  >>  USA
 
adrian
jack
String Quartet no. 1 (1993) 

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
String Quartet no. 2; 

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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  >>  UK
 
karl
jenkins
Adiemus Variations (1994)  12  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
String Quartet no. 2 (1995)  20  min.

 
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b.  1944  >>  Wales
 
scott
johnson
How it Happens (1993)  70  min.

Involves electronics
 
Shorter extracts: Cold War Suite   20  min.

 
Soliloquy   13  min.

 
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b.  1952  >>  USA
 
Elena
Katz-Chernin
Naïve Waltz;(2004) 
 
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b.  1957  >>  Uzbekistan
 
aaron j.
kernis
100 Greatest Dance Hits (1993)  20  min.

With Guitar
 
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b.  1960  >>  USA
 
Hope
Lee
Arrow of being, arrow of becoming;(1997) 
Written for The SMITH Quartet; with optional live electronics.
 
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b.  1953  >>  Taiwan, Canada
 
Bent
Lorentzen
Quartetto Barbaro;(1990) 
 
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b.  1935  >>  Denmark
 
steven
mackey
Great Crossing, Great Divide (1996)  5  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1956  >>  USA
 
james
macmillan
Memento (1994)  5  min.

 
Tuireadh (1991)  16  min.

With Clarinet
 
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b.  1956  >>  UK
 
steve
martland
Crossing the Border   20  min.

Involves electronics
 
Patrol (1992)  30  min.

 
Bach Tocatta and Fugue, BWV 565;(1992) 
Arranged for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1959  >>  UK
 
Anna Meredith
Songs for the M8;(2005) 
UK premiere
 
New Work ;(2006) 
Written for The SMITH Quartet
 
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b.  1978  >>  UK, Scotland
 
stephen
montague
In Memoriam (1992)  25  min.

Involves electronics
 
Silence: John, Yvar and Tim (1994)  15  min.

Involves electronics
With Prepared Piano
 
Quartet no. 2  

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1943  >>  UK
 
conlon
nancarrow
String Quartet no. 1 (1945)  12  min.

 
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b.  1912  >>  USA
 
michael
nyman
String Quartet no. 1 (1985)  25  min.

 
String Quartet no. 2 (1988)  25  min.

 
String Quartet no. 3 (1989)  16  min.

 
String Quartet no. 4 (1994)  40  min.

 
Miserere (1991)  7  min.

With Soprano
 
The Piano Sings (1994)  15  min.
Written for The SMITH Quartet
 
Concerto a 5 (1997)  16  min.

With Harpsichord, arr. Charles Mutter
 
In Re Don Giovani;(1991) 

 
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b.  1946  >>  UK
 
arvo
part
Summa (1983)  5  min.

 
Fratres (1985)  12  min.

 
Psalom (1997)  5  min.

 
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b.  1935  >>  Estonia
 
Astor
Piazzolla
Four, for Tango
 
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  1921-1992  >>  Argentina
 
Alexandre
Rabinovitch-
Barakovsky
Invocation 1;(19995) 
for string quartet and amplified celeste
 
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b.  1945  >>  Azerbaijan
 
russell
pinkston
Don't Look Now (1991)  12  min.

Involves electronics
 
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  >>  USA
 
steve
reich
Different Trains (1988)  24  min.

Involves electronics
 
Triple Quartet (2001)  14  min.

Involves electronics
 
Duet (1993)  14  min.
with electronics
Smith Quartet version
 
Eight Lines;(1983)  14  min.
 
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b.  1936  >>  USA
 
Max
Richter
A House made of Cloud;(1997) 
with electronics
Written for The SMITH Quartet
 
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b.  1936  >>  Germany
 
colin
riley
Amongst Other Things  

With Voice
 
Break break break on the sheltering bars  

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1963  >>  UK
 
terry
riley
Half-Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight (Salome Dances for Peace) (1987)  10  min.

 
Good Medicine   14  min.

 
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b.  1935  >>  USA
 
Silvestre
Revueltas
Musica de Ferias;(1932) 
 
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  1899-1940  >>  Mexico
 
daryl
runswick
Accidental Counterpoint (2002)  20  min.

Mezzo-Soprano
 
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b.  1946  >>  UK
 
sinan
savaskan
Panic in Needle Park (1988)  18  min.

Involves electronics
 
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b.  1954  >>  UK
 
paul
schoenfield
Aubade (1996)  5  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1947  >>  USA
 
elliot
sharp
Shape Shifters (1991) 

Involves electronics
 
Digital (1986)  3  min.

Involves electronics
 
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b.  1951  >>  USA
 
andy
sheppard
String Thing (1994) 

With Saxophone and Keyboard
Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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  >>  UK
 
alfred
shnittke
String Quartet no. 3 (1983)  23  min.

 
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b.  1934  >>  Russia
 
dmitri
shostakovich
String Quartet no. 3 (1946)  33  min.

 
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1906–1975  >>  Russia
 
wayne
siegel
Tracking (1990)  16  min.

Involves electronics
 
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b.  1953  >>  USA
 
Roberto
Sierra
Triptico ;(1989) 
for string quartet and guitar
 
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b.  1953  >>  Puerto Rico
 
howard
skempton
Catch (2001)  12  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
Clarinet Quintet (1997)  10  min.

 
Three Dances for String Quartet and Accordion;(1999)  10  min.

 
Tendrils;(2004)  10  min.
Written for The SMITH Quartet
Best Composer, for Tendrils - British Composer Awards, 2005 (Chamber Catagory)
 
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b.  1947  >>  UK
 
tim
souster
Hambledon Hill (1985)  13  min.

Involves electronics
 
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1943–1994  >>  UK
 
pavel
szymanski
Five Pieces (1992)  20  min.

 
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b.  1954  >>  Poland
 
john
tavener
The Hidden Treasure (1989)  31  min.

 
Ikon of Joy/Sorrow (1999)  3  min.

 
The Last Sleep of the Virgin (1991)  25  min.

With Handbells
 
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b.  1944  >>  UK
 
Michael
Tippett
String Quartet No. 2;(1942) 
 
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  1905-1998  >>  UK
 
andrew
toovey
String Quartet Music (1987)  15  min.

 
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b.  1962  >>  UK
 
michael
torke
July 19th (1996)  4  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1960  >>  USA
 
george
van dam
Black is the Colour (1996)  8  min.

With Double Bass, transc. Charles Mutter
 
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b.  1964  >>  Belgium
 
Antonio Pinho
Vargas
MONODIA – quasi un requiem;(1993) 
 
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b.  1951  >>  Portugal
 
ezequiel
vinao
La Noche de las Noches (1987) 

Involves electronics
 
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b.  1960  >>  USA
 
carl
vine
String Quartet no. 2 (1984)  15  min.

 
String Quartet no. 3 (1994)  15  min.

Written for The SMITH Quartet.
 
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b.  1954  >>  Australia
 
kevin
volans
White Man Sleeps&