The Shanghai String Quartet has recorded 34 albums spanning 30 years of international success and musical innovation. View a full list of their recordings, including audio samples, below.


Traditional and popular chinese folk songs arranged for string quartet by Yi-Wen Jiang, the quartet’s second violinist. Flautist Eugenia Zukerman also contributes.

Includes Beethoven String Quartet No. 1 (op. 18 nr. 1 in F Major), No. 2 (op. 18 nr. 2 in G Major) and No. 3 (op. 18 nr. 3 in D Major)

Includes Beethoven String Quartet No. 4 (op. 18 nr. 4 in C Minor), No. 5 (op. 18 nr. 5 in A Major) and No. 6 (op. 18 nr. 6 in B flat Major)

Includes Beethoven String Quartet No. 1 and No. 3, Op. 59, from the Razumovsky Quartets

Includes Beethoven String Quartet No. 2 (from the Razumovsky Quartets) and Op. 74 (The Harp)


Includes Beethoven String Quartet No. 12 (op. 127 nr. 12 in E flat Major) and No. 14 (op. 131 nr. 14 in C sharp Minor)

Includes Beethoven String Quartet No. 11 (op. 95 nr. 11 in F Minor), No. 13 (op. 130 nr. 13 in B Flat Major), Große Fuge (op. 133), No. 15 (op. 132 nr. 15 in A Minor), and No. 16 (op. 135 nr. 16 in F Major)

Includes Beethoven String Quartet No. 8 (op. 59 nr. 2 in E Minor) and No. 9 (op. 59 nr. 3 in C Major).

Includes String Quartet Op. 130 in B flat Major and String Quartet Op. 131 in C sharp Minor

Includes Beethoven String Quartet No. 8 (op. 59 nr. 2 in E Minor) and No. 9 (op. 59 nr. 3 in C Major).


The Shanghai Quartet’s motion picture premiere. Contains a performance of the Quartet playing Bartók’s Quartet no. 4, the pizzicato movement. Visit the Melinda and Melinda website.

Includes Quartet No. 1 (op. 25 nr. 1 in G Minor), No. 3 (op. 60 nr. 3 in C Minor), and No. 2 (op. 26 nr. 2 in A Major)

Includes Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major, Frank Bridge
Quartet in E Minor, and Frank Bridge Novelletten for String Quartet

Includes a special appearance by the Bartók Quartet

Includes Quartet No. 3, Op. 67; and Quintet No. 1, Op. 88


With Rudolf Buchbinder on piano. Includes Schumann’s Piano Quintet (op. 44 in E flat Major) and Dvorak’s Piano Quintet (op. 81 in A Major)

New music for piano trio, as well as music for piano, strings, and pipa, a traditional Chinese instrument

Includes Quartet No. 22 (K. 589 in B flat Major) and Quartet No. 23 (K. 590 in F Major)

Chinese Folk Songs (arranged by Zhou Long) and Poems from Tang


with Eugenia Zukerman and Anthony Newman
Ginastera Impresiones de la Puna J.S. Bach Ouverture [Suite] No. 2 in B-Minor BWV 1067

Three Bagatelles for String Quartet (op. 20), String Quartet No. 1 (op. 8), and Suite from String Quartet No. 2

Includes Mendelssohn: Quartet No. 2 (op. 13 nr. 2 in A Minor) and Greig: Quartet (op. 27 in G Minor)

The Shanghai Quartet plays on track three, “Five Seasons,” with Wu Man on pipa.


Include’s Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A major (“Stadler,” K. 581); Spohr’s Fantasia and Variations on a theme by Danzi for clarinet & string quartet (op. 81 in B flat Major); Gershwin’s Preludes; and Cohn’s Concerto for clarinet & orchestra (op. 62)
