Commercially Available CDs

One dozen Smithsonian Chamber Music Society recordings are currently in print:

Johann Sebastian Bach: Six Suites for Violoncello Solo, BWV 1007-1012

Anner Bylsma, violoncello by Antonio Stradivari (Cremona, 1701), the Servais.

Ludwig van Beethoven: The Six Quartets of Op. 18

The Smithson String Quartet (Jaap Schröder & Marilyn McDonald, violins; Judson Griffin, viola; Kenneth Slowik, cello)

Luigi Boccherini: Quintets, Op. 11, Nos. 4-6

The Smithsonian Chamber Players (Marilyn McDonald & Jorrie Garrigue, violins; Anthony Martin, viola, Anner Bylsma & Kenneth Slowik, celli)

François Couperin: Concerts Royaux & Pièces à deux clavecins

The Smithsonian Chamber Players (Christopher Krueger, traverso; Stephen Hammer, oboe; Chiara Banchini, violin; Konrad Junghänel, archlute; James Weaver, harpsichord; Kenneth Slowik, viola da gamba, harpsichord, & direction)

Joseph Haydn: String Quartets Op. 9, No. 4; Op. 17. No. 3; Op. 17, No. 5

The Smithson String Quartet (Jaap Schröder & Marilyn McDonald, violins; Judson Griffin, viola; Kenneth Slowik, cello)

Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)

The Smithsonian Chamber Players and Santa Fe Pro Musica; Kenneth Slowik, conductor, with John Elwes, tenor, and Russell Braun, baritone

Gustav Mahler (arr. Schönberg/Stein): Symphony No. 4; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)

The Smithsonian Chamber Players and Santa Fe Pro Musica; Kenneth Slowik, conductor, with Christine Brandes, soprano, and Susan Platts, mezzo-soprano

Felix Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20; Niels Gade: Octet in F Major, Op. 17

The Smithsonian Chamber Players and L’Archibudelli (Vera Beths, Jody Gatwood, Lisa Rautenberg, & Gijs Beths, violins; Steven Dann & David Cerutti, violas; Anner Bylsma & Kenneth Slowik, celli)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Chamber Music

The Smithson String Quartet (Jaap Schröder & Marilyn McDonald, violins; Judson Griffin, viola; Kenneth Slowik, cello), with Michel Piguet, oboe, Jaap ter linden, cello, and Lisa Rautenberg, viola

Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4; Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (CD/DVD)

The Smithsonian Chamber Players, Kenneth Slowik, conductor

Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (The Beautiful Maid of the Mill), D795

John Elwes, tenor; Kenneth Slowik, fortepiano

Franz Schubert: Schwanengesang (Swan Song), D957; Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe (The Poet’s Love), Op. 48

Max van Egmond, baritone; Kenneth Slowik, fortepiano