David Lang
daisy (2024) 30'
string quartet
commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia, Kings Place, Newport Classical, String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam, Park Avenue Armory, and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Works
String Quartet
David Lang
the national anthems (arr. string orchestra) (2023) 24'
Text by David Lang
SATB + string orchestra
LA Master Chorale, the Berlin Radio Choir, and Yale Choral Artists
Julia Wolfe
Blue Dress for string quartet (2015) 10'
David Lang
almost all the time (2014) 18'
string quartet
commissioned by Sages Gateshead, La Jolla Music Society, and Chamber Music Northwest
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just (after song of songs) – arr. string quartet (2014, rev. 2018) 13'
SSA + 2 vln, vla, vc
Louth Contemporary Music Society
David Lang
the national anthems (2014) 24'
Text by David Lang
SATB + string quartet
LA Master Chorale, the Berlin Radio Choir, andYale Choral Artists
David Lang
ark luggage (2012) 9'
Text by Peter Greenaway
for soprano and string quartet
commissioned by Glasgow Concert Halls written for Else Torp and the Smith Quartet; premiere: 24 march 2012
David Lang
ark luggage – arr. pno/soprano (2012) 9'
Text by Peter Greenaway
for soprano and piano
commissioned by Glasgow Concert Halls written for Else Torp and the Smith Quartet; premiere: 24 march 2012
Michael Gordon
Clouded Yellow (2010) 10'
string quartet
For the Kronos Quartet by the Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College. Additional project support was provided by the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund.
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Exalted (2010) 10'
SATB; string quartet + electronics [all instruments and voices amplified]
The Kronos Quartet, The Young People's Chorus of New York City
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The Sad Park (2006) 30'
string quartet + audio playback + electronics [all instruments amplified]
Kronos Quartet, through the generosity of Mrs. Ralph I. Dorfman with additional support from the Barbican, London (UK), and the National Endowment for the Arts
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Julia Wolfe
My Beautiful Scream (2003) 27'
string quartet concerto amplified string quartet plus 2+pic.2+cor.2+bcl.2+cbn/432+btbn.1/4perc/hp.pf.eb/strings
Radio France, Basel Sinfonietta, and Brooklyn Philharmonic for Kronos Quartet
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the difficulty of crossing a field (2002) 75'
Text by Mac Wellman
Sop, Mezzo,Ten,Bar,B,small chor, string quartet
the American Conservatory Theater for the Kronos Quartet
the first telling
8:39
the second telling
6:27
the third telling
10:44
the fourth telling
11:53
the fifth telling
10:49
the sixth telling
5:02
the seventh telling
13:21
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Michael Gordon
Potassium (2000) 12'
string quartet + electronics [all instruments amplified]
Kronos Quartet
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wed – arr. string quartet (1995) 11'
string quartet
American Conservatory Theater for the Kronos Quartet
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Julia Wolfe
Dig Deep (1995) 14'
string quartet
the Kronos Quartet
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Early that summer (1993) 12'
string quartet
the MTC Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Consortium Program
David Lang
music for gracious living (1992, rev. 1996) 22'
Text by Deborah Artman
actor, string quartet
the Almeida Festival for the Brindisi Quartet; the 1996 revision was commissioned by Sequitur with generous support from Greg Miller
Audio Player Julia Wolfe
Four Marys (1991) 11'
string quartet
the Koussevitzky Foundation