New Music on the Cutting Edge
Repertoire
The Argento Chamber ensemble has a diverse repertoire encompassing works by leading composers who hail from all parts of the globe. Our flexible structure, anchored by a core ensemble, allows us to tackle works ranging from solos to chamber orchestra pieces for up to thirty musicians.
| Composer | Title |
| Aperghis, Georges | Le Corps à Corps |
| Aralla, Paolo | Káros |
| Azmeh, Kinan | Ornina’s Monologue (world premiere) |
| Berg, Alban | Chamber Concerto |
| Berio, Luciano | O King |
| Luftklavier | |
| Borredà, Adrián | La Dicha es Una Torre Transperente (world premiere) |
| Boulez, Pierre | Memoriale |
| Le Marteau sans maître (instrumental mvts.) | |
| Improvisé – pour le Dr. K | |
| Campion, Edmund | Outside Music |
| Caranica, Filip | Puppe (world premiere) |
| Carter, Elliott | Riconoscenza |
| Luimen | |
| Triple Duo | |
| Esprit rude/Esprit doux | |
| Cerha, Friedrich | 8 Fragments after Hoelderlin (US premiere) |
| Chong, Kee Yong | Metamorphosis I (world premiere) |
| Metamorphosis IV (US premiere) | |
| The Thousand Ripples of a Lonely Bell (US premiere) | |
| Temple Bell Still Ringing in my Heart (US premiere) | |
| Chong/Mannigan | The Lost Psalm of the Abyss (world premiere) |
| Corigliano, John | 3 Irish Folk Settings |
| Crumb, George | Four Nocturnes |
| Davidovsky, Mario | Synchronisms No. 1 |
| Donatoni, Franco | Due Pezzi Per Ottavino |
| Druckman, Jacob | Valentine |
| Dubiel, Joseph | Still Getting Nowhere |
| Dutilleux, Henri | 3 Strophes sur le nom de Sacher |
| Durupt, Laurent | Sound Landing (world premiere) |
| Falconi, James | Luctor et Emergo |
| Fedele, Ivan | Donax |
| Feldman, Morton | Viola in My Life II |
| Ferneyhough, Brian | La Chute d’Icare |
| Fineberg, Joshua | Lolita part I (world premiere) |
| Veils | |
| Francesconi, Luca | Riti Neurali III |
| Furrer, Beat | Invocations VI (US premiere) |
| Gaspra (NY premiere) | |
| Galante, Michel | Watercolor |
| Flicker (US premiere) | |
| Leaves of Absence II (world premiere) | |
| Glass, Philip | Prelude to Endgame |
| Grisey, Gérard | Vortex Temporum |
| Prologue | |
| Périodes | |
| Partiels | |
| Charme | |
| Haas, Georg Friedrich | Nach-Ruf…ent-gleitend… (US premiere) |
| …aus freier Lust…verbunden… (US premiere) | |
| in terra fine (NY premiere) | |
| Hosokawa, Toshio | Vertical Song I |
| Hurel, Philippe | …à mesure… (US premiere) |
| Four Variations for Vibraphone and Chamber Orchestra (US premiere, world premiere recording) |
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| Loops (US premiere) | |
| Loops III/Pools (US premiere) | |
| Ives, Charles | Three Songs |
| Jarrell, Michael | …more leaves… (US premiere) |
| Kampela, Arthur | Bridges |
| Exoskeleton | |
| Kim, Earl | Exercises en Route |
| Klingbeil, Michael | Monoliths and Interludes (world premiere) |
| Ce cours de sable qui glisse (world premiere) | |
| Signals | |
| Beta Warp | |
| Lachenmann, Helmut | Mouvement (vor der Erstarrung) |
| Dal Niente | |
| Lang, Bernhard | DW 5.2 (world premiere) |
| DW 1 (NY premiere) | |
| Lerdahl, Fred | Imbrications |
| León, Tania | Parajota delaté |
| Leroux, Philippe | Voi(Rex) |
| Lévinas, Michaël | Les Lettres enlacées II (US premiere) |
| Lévy, Fabien | Small Treatise on Love and Geometry (US premiere) |
| Liang, Lei | My Windows |
| Loo, Aenon | Desolate Horizons (world premiere) |
| Lunsqui, Alexandre | Tempi Intermedi (world premiere recording) |
| Spira Mondana (world premiere recording) | |
| P-Orbital (world premiere recording) | |
| Lu, Wang | Lost Dialectics (world premiere recording) |
| Mahler, Gustav (arr. Stein) | Symphony No. 4 |
| Makan, Keeril | Afterglow |
| Manoury, Philippe | En Echo (US premiere) |
| Messaien, Olivier | Abyss of the Birds |
| Miranda, Inigo Giner | La Casa de Asterion (world premiere) |
| Murail, Tristan | Ethers |
| Le Lac (US premiere, world premiere recording) | |
| Les Courants de l’espace (US premiere) | |
| Feuilles à travers les cloches (US premiere, world premiere recording) | |
| Winter Fragments (US premiere, world premiere recording) | |
| Les Ruines circulaires (US premiere) | |
| Unanswered Questions (US premiere) | |
| Treize couleurs du soleil couchant | |
| Garrigue (Asian premiere) | |
| Neuwirth, Olga | Elfi und Andi (US premiere) |
| Neidich, Charles | Threnos |
| Park, Tae Hong | Single Unit (world premiere) |
| Pesson, Gérard | Non sapremo mai di questo mi (US premiere) |
| La Vita è come l’albero di Natale (US premiere) | |
| La Lumière n’a pas bras pour nous porter (US premiere) | |
| Cinq Chansons (US premiere) | |
| Le Gel, par jeu (US premiere) | |
| Rebus (US premiere) | |
| Pinkston, Russell | Lizamander |
| Gerrymander | |
| Poulenc, Francis | Sonata for two Clarinets |
| Prabowo, Tony | Music for Multiple Violas |
| Music for Multiple Violas B-A-C-H 2004 | |
| Ke Erse | |
| The Funeral Pyre | |
| Music for Seven Musicians (world premiere) | |
| Quartet (world premiere) | |
| Ran, Shulamit | Mirage |
| Rihm, Wolfgang | Chiffre VI (US premiere) |
| Reich, Steve | New York Counterpoint |
| Sannicandro, Valerio | Constructa (world premiere) |
| Shapey, Ralph | Mann Soli |
| Scelsi, Giacinto | Maknongan |
| Piccola Suite | |
| Xnoybis | |
| Sciarrino, Salvatore | 3 Caprices |
| Let me die before I wake | |
| 3 Nocturnes | |
| Canzona di ringraziamento | |
| Introduzione All’oscuro | |
| Schneller, Oliver | String Space (US premiere) |
| Schoenberg, Arnold | Kammersymphonie, op. 9 |
| Pierrot Lunaire, op. 21 | |
| Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, op. 41 | |
| Sterk, Norbert | Land der wachen Spiegel |
| Stravinsky, Igor | 3 Pieces for Solo Clarinet |
| Stockhausen, Karlheinz | Harlekin |
| Strauss, Richard | Metamorphosen |
| Tower, Joan | Petrouchskates |
| Wagner, Richard arr. Szeto | Vorspiel und Liebestod |
| Wilson, Ian | Cassini Void (world premiere) |
| Zhu, Sharon | Sextet (world premiere) |