LATEST RELEASE – APRIL 30
For the first time in seven years, Ciompi releases a new album. Marking Duke University’s Centennial Celebration, this release brings together works by three Duke composers who have been influential in the life of the Ciompi Quartet, and in the lives of the many young composers they have mentored. A Duke Moment celebrates the quartet’s strong relationship with Duke’s faculty in composition and highlights their ongoing commitment to the commissioning and performance of new chamber music works.
A Duke Moment (Released April 30, 2025)
works by Anthony Kelley, Stephen Jaffe, and Scott Lindroth
Artists
Ciompi String Quartet
Susan Fancher, saxophone
Released on New Focus Recordings
Genre: Chamber Music; Instrumental
Catalogue No: FCR433
EAN/UPC: 613527490881
Production
Produced by Judith Sherman
Recorded at Baldwin Hall, Duke University
May 17-19, 2022 and April 27, 2023
Sound engineer Chris Boerner
Editing, mix and mastering Judith Sherman and Jeanne Velonis
Booklet Editor: James Rodgers
Design & layout: Marc Wolf, marcjwolf.com
Buy from New Focus Recordings | Presto Music
Reviews
“A fine tribute to Duke University from distinguished members of its music faculty.”
Peter Burwasser – Fanfare Magazine
“… a world-class ensemble, with impeccable technique and keen sense of architecture.”
“Modern American chamber music in superb performances. 5 stars.”
Anton Angelo – Fanfare Magazine
“The crisp, tonally attractive performances are unfailingly lyrical, and beautifully recorded.”
Ken Meltzer – Fanfare Magazine
Chiayu Journeys (Released May 1, 2015)
works by Chiayu Hsu
Artists
Ciompi String Quartet
Members of the Curtis Institute of Music
Members of the Philadelphia Orchestra
Works
Journey to the West (Ciompi String Quartet)
Urban Sketches (Various Artists)
2 Signs (Various Artists)
Released on Naxos
Series: American Classics
Genre: Chamber Music; Instrumental
Catalogue No: 8.559713
EAN/UPC: 636943971321
Mosaic – EP (Released 2017)
Joel Feigin & The Ciompi Quartet, 2017
Artists
Ciompi String Quartet
Works
Mosaic in Two Panels: I
Mosaic in Two Panels: II
Released by Joel Feigin
Complete Music, Volume 4 (Released 2013)
works by Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
Artists
Ciompi String Quartet
Sherban Lupu, violin
Sinfonia da Camera
Ian Hobson, conductor
Works
Violin Concerto in F sharp minor, Allegro pathétique, Op. 23 (Various Artists)
Violin Concertino in D major, Op. 12 (Various Artists)
String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 26 (Ciompi String Quartet)
Released on Toccata Classics
Catalogue No: TOCC0189
EAN/UPC: 5060113441898
Release Date: 2013-09-30
Tales From Chelm | Memoirs (Released 2011)
works by Paul Schoenfield
The Milken Archive Digital
Artists
Ciompi String Quartet
Works
String Quartet No. 1: Tales from Chelm
String Quartet No. 2: Memoirs
Live at St. Stephens (Released 2006)
Artists
Ciompi String Quartet
Works
String Quartet in D Major, Opus 76, No. 5 (1797) by Josef Haydn
String Quartet No. 2, Opus 92 (1941) by Sergey Prokofiev
String Quartet in F (1903) by Maurice Ravel
Released by Ciompi
ASIN: B000G8P98O
Melancholie (Released 2003)
works by Paul Schoenfield
Artists
Ciompi String Quartet
Susan Narucki, mezzo-soprano
Steven Tharp, tenor
Jane Hawkins, piano
Works
Three Poems in French by Earl Kim
Melancholie, Op. 13 by Paul Hindemith
Ein Wallfahrts Lied, Psalm 121 by Arvo Pärt
On Wenlock Edge by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Released on Albany Records
Catalogue No: TROY0603
EAN/UPC: 5060113441898
The Ciompi Quartet Plays Donald Wheelock (Released 1994)
Artists
Ciompi String Quartet
Works
String Quartet No. 3 (1988)
String Quartet No. 4 (1992)
Released on Albany Records
Catalogue No: TROY0139
American Works for String Quartet (Released 1993)
Artists
Ciompi String Quartet
Works
Movement for String Quartet and Two Pieces for String Quartet by Aaron Copland
First String Quartet by Robert Ward
First Quartet by Stephen Jaffe
Released on Albany Records
Catalogue No: TROY0073
The Ciompi Quartet (Released 1991)
Artists
Ciompi String Quartet
Works
String Quartet No. 4 by Frank Bridge
String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat, Op. 74 (“The Harp”) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Released on Sheffield Lab
Catalogue No: SLS-503
The Ciompi Quartet In Concert (Released 1997)
Artists
Ciompi String Quartet
Works
String Quartet in B-flat Major, K 458 by W.A. Mozart
String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 by Claude Debussy
String Quartet in E-flat Major by Fanny Hensel
Released on VAC High Fidelity Recordings
Catalogue No: VAC 9701
NO LONGER AVAILABLE
The Ciompi Quartet is included on these recordings:
Ernst: Complete Music, Vol. 4
Toccata Classics (TOCC 0189)
- String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 26
David Lipten: Best Served Cold (2012)
Ablaze Records
- Ictus
Theodore Wiprud: Fire in Heaven & Earth (2011)
Albany (TROY1267)
- String Quartet No. 1, Refining Fire
Robert Ward: First Symphony & Bath County Rhapsody (2008)
Albany (TROY1063)
- Quintet for Oboe and String Quartet, with Joseph Robinson, oboe
- Bath County Rhapsody, with Jane Hawkins, piano
Peter Scott Lewis: River Shining Through (2007)
Lapis Island Records
- River Shining Through
Nathaniel Stookey: Music for Strings (1992-2002) (2005)
Albany (TROY717)
- String Quartet No. 2
- String Quartet No. 1
Mark Kuss: Chamber Music (2000)
Gasparo (GSCD-337)
- American Tryptich
Scott Lindroth: Human Gestures (1998)
CRI (CD 808)
- String Quartet
To Dance to the Whistling Wind: Music by David Froom (1997)
Arabesque Recordings (Z6710)
- String Quartet
World Premiere Records: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1996)
Albany (Troy 191)
- Quintet No. 1 (Quintetto in Fa), Op. 69, with Deniz Gelenbe, piano
Music of James Bolle (1996)
Gasparo (GSCD-317)
- String Quartet
To Sun, To Feast and To Converse: American Vocal Duet Music (1995)
Albany (Troy 172)
- Bermudas by Lee Holby, with Terry Rhodes, soprano; Ellen Williams, mezzo; and Thomas Warburton, piano