NSQF IRISH QUARTET ARCHIVE

A collection of recordings of Irish compositions for string quartet which have been featured on NSQF tours. Wherever possible, links are provided for purchase or download of scores and parts, please contact us if you would like assistance

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Boydell, Brian: Quartet No.2 [1957]
Buckley, Linda: Circuit Bend [2022]
Buckley, Linda and Irene: Beethoven Reflected [2019]
Clarke, Rhona: Pas de Quatre [2023]
Cleary, Siobhán: Carrowkeel [2003]
Deane, Raymond: Quartet VII [2021-2022]
Dennehy, Donnacha: Pushpulling [2007]
Dennehy, Donnacha: STAMP [2008]
Dennehy, Donnacha: Wig [2019]
Dennehy, Donnacha: Chorale [2023]
Doherty, Michael: String Quartet No.3 [2023]
Doherty, Michael: Ode to Punta Nati [2025]
Doherty, Seán: The Devil’s Dream [2015]
Doherty, Seán: Varsouviana: Variations on ‘Shoe the Donkey’ [2024]
Feery, Amanda: Three Sisters [2014]
Feery, Amanda: From Ashes [2019]
Fennessy, Dave: felt [2003]
Flynn, Dave: The Cranning [2005][2024 video]
Flynn, Dave: The Cranning [2005][2021 audio]
Frost, Paul: An Old Song, Half Forgotten [2023]
Gaynor, Marja: Lord Mayo [2024]
Gaynor, Marja: Siúil a Rúin [2025]
Gaynor, Marja: Paul’s Steeple [2025]
Gribbin, Deirdre: Merrow Sang [2007]
Gribbin, Deirdre: somewhere I have never travelled [2015]
Gribbin, Deirdre: Before the Moon Shattered and Shone Again [2021]
Harron, Rohan: Psychotia [2020]
Hunka, Katherine: Pass The Hat [2023]
Hunka, Katherine: Into the Clear Air [2025]
Kinsella, John: String Quartet No.3 [1977]
Kinsella, John: On hearing Purcell and Shostakovich at Bantry House – June 2008 [2009]
Knox, Garth: Secret Letters [2023]
Lane, Tom: Refractions [2022]
Lunny, Cora Venus: Theft [2019]
Maconchy, Elizabeth: String Quartet No.3 [1938]
McDonagh, Ailbhe: String Quartet No.2 The Lore Quartet [2023]
McCarthy, Cormac: Murus [2021]
McKay, Deirdre: mr shah stares to the heavens [2012]
Moeran, E.J.: String Quartet No.2 [1923/1946]
O’Connor, Harry: Summer Idyll [2023]
O’Halloran, Emma: Dying is a Wild Night [2017]
O’Leary, Jane: ConTempo ConVersations [2005]
O’Leary, Jane: the passing sound of forever [2013-2015]
O’Leary, Jane: forever begin [2019]
Perkin, Sam: String Quartet [2011]
Perkin, Sam: My Young Love Was Gone [2024]
Schembri, Caterina: Grüner Strahl [2024] 
Schlepper-Connolly, Benedict: Foreign Hand [2019]
Sholdice, Garrett: The Secret Cause [2019]
Wilson, Ian: Across a Clear Blue Sky [2009]
Wilson, Ian: in fretta, in vento, string quartet no.6 [2001]
Wilson, Ian: Rossiniana [2018]