QuartetWeb | Premieres by Arditti

Abrahamsen, Hans	Quartet No. 4	2012-04-28	Witten, Germany	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Andriessen, Louis	Garden of Eros	2002-09-26	Strasbourg, France	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Bainbridge, Simon	Cheltenham Fragments	2004-07-14	Cheltenham, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Barnson, Matthew	Sybil Tones	2004-12-06	Philadelphia PA, USA	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 2	2005-07-17	Metz, France	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Barrett, Richard	I Open and Close	1988-12-15	London, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Stress	1997-04-27	Witten, Germany	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Billone, Pierluigi

Muri IIIb

2010-17-22

Darmstadt, Germany

P

VIOLIN I	VIOLIN II	VIOLA	CELLO
Irvine Arditti	Ashot Sarkissjan	Ralf Ehlers	Lucas Fels

Birtwistle, Harrison	9 Movements	1996-04-29	Lon, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	The Tree of Strings	2008-04-27	Witten, Germany	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	3 Fugues	2008-06-27	Aldeburgh, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Hoquetus Irvineus	2014-04-26	London, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	The Silk House Sequences	2015-11-06	London, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Boulez, Pierre	Livre pour quatuor H	1985-03-31	P
Additional references IRCAM [2011-04-13]
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Britten, Benjamin	Quartettino	1983-05-23	London, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Bryars, Gavin	Quartet No. 1 H	1985-10-08	Vienna, Austria	P
Additional references Schott ED12464 (score)
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Cage, John	Music for ___	1988-02-27	Middletown CT, USA	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Four	1989-11-24	Huddersfield, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Carter, Elliott	Quartet No. 5	1995-09-19	Antwerp, Belgium	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Fragment No. 2	1999-06-23	Munich, Germany	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Davies, Peter Maxwell	Movement (1952)	1983-05-23	London, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Dillon, James	Quartet No. 1 H	1983-11-18	Huddersfield, England	P
Additional references Edition Peters No. 7302 (score)
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 2	1991-10-05	Strasbourg, France	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 3	1998-10-17	Donaueschingen, Germany	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 5	2009-11-21	Huddersfield, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 6	2010-10-16	Donaueschingen, Germany	P
Notes One of three performances by three quartets on the same day in the same city
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Dusapin, Pascal	Quartet No. 1	1983-06-uu	La Rochelle, France	P
Notes Original version
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 1	1996-10-01	Strasbourg, France	P
Notes Revised version
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Time Zones	1990-10-19	Paris, France	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 3	1993-11-03	Paris, France	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 5	2005-06-15	Amsterdam, Netherlands	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Quartet No. 7

2010-01-16

Paris, France

P

VIOLIN I	VIOLIN II	VIOLA	CELLO
Irvine Arditti	Ashot Sarkissjan	Ralf Ehlers	Lucas Fels

Finnissy, Michael	Quartet No. 1	1985-11-21	Huddersfield, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Fox, Christopher	Heliotropes⁶	1988-08-07	Darmstadt, Germany (Federal Republic)	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Gilbert, Anthony	Quartet No. 3	1987-08-25	London, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Goehr, Alexander	Quartet No. 4 H	1990-10-08	Iowa City IA, USA	P
Additional references Schott Music [2010-12-21]
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Haas, Georg Friedrich	Quartet No. 1	1997-10-02	Graz, Austria	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 5	2007-09-20	Schwaz, Austria	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 7 H	2011-09-10	Lucerne, Switzerland	P
Notes With the Experimental Studio of Southwest Broadcasting, Freiburg Additional references IRCAM [2015-02-19]
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 10	2016-11-19	Huddersfield, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Harvey, Jonathan	Quartet No. 1	1979-03-06	Southampton, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 2	1989-03-17	Brussels, Belgium	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 3	1996-01-23	Birmingham, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 4	2003-03-11	Brussels, Belgium	P
Notes Assisted by IRCAM technicians
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Hindemith, Paul	Quartet No. 1 H	1986-02-04	Trossingen, Germany (Federal Republic)	P
Problems, questions See the performance in 1915.
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Höller, York	Quartet No. 2	1998-04-25	Witten, Germany	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Jack, Adrian	Quartet No. 3	1999-05-07	London, England	P
Notes Broadcast only (by the British Broadcasting Corporation)
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 4	2001-02-08	London, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	08.02.01	2001-02-08	London, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Quartet No. 5

2006-10-02

Reading, England

P

Notes

The premiere date is the one when the Deux-Elles recording was released, and the location is the city where the company was located then.

VIOLIN I	VIOLIN II	VIOLA	CELLO
Irvine Arditti	Graeme Jennings	Ralf Ehlers	Rohan de Saram

Quartet No. 6

2006-10-02

Reading, England

P

Notes

The premiere date is the one when the Deux-Elles recording was released, and the location is the city where the company was located then.

VIOLIN I	VIOLIN II	VIOLA	CELLO
Irvine Arditti	Graeme Jennings	Ralf Ehlers	Rohan de Saram

Jolas, Betsy	Quartet No. 8	2020-01-14	Paris, France	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Kagel, Mauricio	Quartet No. 3	1988-06-19	Oslo, Norway	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 4 H	1993-10-20	Antwerp, Belgium	P
Additional references Arditti Quartet website [2013-12-17]
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Kurtág, György	Aus der Ferne 5	1999-06-24	Munich, Germany	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Lachenmann, Helmut	Reigen seliger Geister	1989-09-28	Paris, France	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Grido	2001-11-02	Melbourne VIC, Australia	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Lara, Felipe	Corde vocale	2006-03-26	New York NY, USA	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Tran(slate)	2008-07-10	Darmstadt, Germany	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Lenot, Jacques	Quartet No. 4	2008-09-26	Strasbourg, France	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Liang, Lei

Serashi Fragments

2006-04-02

Cambridge MA, USA

P

VIOLIN I	VIOLIN II	VIOLA	CELLO
Irvine Arditti	Ashot Sarkissjan	Ralf Ehlers	Lucas Fels

Lim, Liza	Hell	1992-06-09	Milan, Italy	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Narbutaitė, Onutė	Drappeggio H	2004-09-12	Wattens, Austria	P
Additional references Klangspuren Festival archive [2013-10-01]
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Nyman, Michael	Quartet No. 1	1985-09-23	Warsaw, Poland	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Ohana, Maurice	Quartet No. 2 H	1982-02-27	Paris, France	P
Additional references Arditti Quartet website
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Orr, Buxton	Quartet No. 1	1979-06-01	Bath, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Paredes, Hilda	Uy u t’an	1998-09-27	Rouen, France	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Papalote	2007-09-uu	London, England	P
Notes Jake Arditti, high voice
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 2	2008-10-05	Parma, Italy	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Canciones lunáticas	2011-02-03	London, England	P
Notes Jake Arditti, countertenor (presumably)
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Parra, Hèctor	Stasis	2002-uu-uu	Avignon, France	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 1	2007-05-08	València, Spain	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 2	2009-04-25	Witten, Germany	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Pärt, Arvo	Psalm	1991-11-18	Vienna, Austria	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Pintscher, Matthias	Figura 2 / Frammento	1997-08-27	Salzburg, Austria	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Figura 4 / Passaggio H	2000-02-09	Cologne, Germany	P
Problems, questions Broadcast only?
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Rădulescu, Horațiu	infinite to be cannot be infinite, infinite anti-be could be infinite	1987-06-29	London, England	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	practicing eternity	1993-09-23	Strasbourg, France	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Rihm, Wolfgang	Quartet [1968]	1997-09-13	Berlin, Germany	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 5	1983-12-09	Brussels, Belgium	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 6	1986-06-14	Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Federal Republic)	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 8	1989-01-17	Milan, Italy	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Zwischen den Zeilen	1991-11-18	Vienna, Austria	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Quartet No. 10	1997-09-20	Berlin, Germany	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Fetzen 1	1999-06-23	Munich, Germany	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Fetzen 2	2002-05-17	Neuss, Germany	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Akt	2006-05-21	Amsterdam, Netherlands	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

	Akt und Tag	2006-10-21	Donaueschingen, Germany	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Quartet No. 13

2012-01-19

Paris, France

P

VIOLIN I	VIOLIN II	VIOLA	CELLO
Irvine Arditti	Ashot Sarkissjan	Ralf Ehlers	Lucas Fels

	In Verbundenheit	2014-05-10	Witten, Germany	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Saunders, Rebecca	Fletch H	2012-10-05	Graz, Austria	P
Additional references IRCAM [2016-07-03]
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Schwendinger, Laura	Quartet in 3 Movements	2003-01-24	Cambridge MA, USA	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Stockhausen, Karlheinz

Helicopter Quartet

1995-06-26

Amsterdam, Netherlands

P

VIOLIN I	VIOLIN II	VIOLA	CELLO
Irvine Arditti	Graeme Jennings	Garth Knox	Rohan de Saram

Tanguy, Éric	Quartet No. 1	1993-09-23	Strasbourg, France	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.