| 1986 | Dvořák: String Quartet, op. 96 “American” / Smetana: String Quartet no. 1 “From My Life” | Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana; Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 1986 | String Quartets | Debussy, Ravel; Emerson String Quartet | | 4 |
| 1988 | Die 6 Streichquartette | Béla Bartók; Emerson String Quartet | | 5 |
| 1988 | Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen / Beethoven: Quartetto serioso op. 95 | Schubert, Beethoven; Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 1989 | Mozart: Jagd-Quartett, Dissonanzen-Quartet / Haydn: Kaiser-Quartett | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn; Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 1990 | Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 / Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 | Tchaikovsky, Borodin; Emerson String Quartet | | 2 |
| 1991 | String Quartets nos. 1, 2 / Sonata for Two Violins | Prokofiev; Emerson String Quartet | | 2 |
| 1991 | Flute Quartets nos. 1-4 | Mozart; Carol Wincenc, Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 1991 | String Quartets K. 387 & 421 | Mozart; Emerson String Quartet | | 2 |
| 1992 | Haydn Quartets | Mozart; Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 1992 | Streichquintett C-Dur | Franz Schubert; Emerson String Quartet, Mstislav Rostropovich | 5 | 4 |
| 1993 | American Contemporaries | John Harbison, Richard Wernick, Gunther Schuller; Emerson String Quartet | | 2 |
| 1994 | Piano Quintet, op. 81 / Piano Quartet, op. 87 | Dvořák; Menahem Pressler, Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 1994 | The Complete Songs | Barber; Cheryl Studer, Thomas Hampson, John Browning, Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 1995 | Works for String Quartet / String Trio, op. 20 | Anton Webern; Emerson String Quartet | 5 | 2 |
| 1995 | Piano Quintet Op. 44 / Piano Quartet Op. 47 | Schumann; Emerson String Quartet, Menahem Pressler | | 1 |
| 1995 | Dvořák: “American” Quartet / Tchaikovsky: Quartet no. 1 / Borodin: Quartet no. 2 | Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Borodin; Emerson String Quartet | | 2 |
| 1995 | Piano Quintet, op. 44 / Piano Quartet, op. 47 | Robert Schumann; Menahem Pressler, Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 1998 | Meyer: Quintet / Rorem: String Quartet No. 4 | Meyer, Rorem; Emerson String Quartet | | 2 |
| 1999 | Clarinet Quintets | Mozart, Brahms; Emerson String Quartet, David Shifrin | | 1 |
| 1999 | String Quartet No. 8 | Shostakovich; Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 2001 | The Haydn Project | Joseph Haydn; Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 2003 | The Art of Fugue | Bach; Emerson String Quartet | | 3 |
| 2004 | The Late String Quartets / String Quintet | Franz Schubert; Emerson String Quartet, Rostropovich | | 1 |
| 2004 | The Seven Last Words | Joseph Haydn; Emerson String Quartet | | 3 |
| 2006 | Intimate Voices | Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen; Emerson String Quartet | | 4 |
| 2007 | Piano Quintet / The String Quartets | Brahms; Emerson String Quartet, Leon Fleisher | | 2 |
| 2008 | Fugues | Bach; Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 2009 | Intimate Letters | Janáček, Martinů; Emerson String Quartet | | 2 |
| 2010 | Old World - New World | Dvořák; Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 2011 | The Prussian Quartets | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 2012 | Octet, op. 20 / String Quartet, op. 80 | Mendelssohn; Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 2013 | Journeys | Emerson String Quartet, Paul Neubauer, Colin Carr | | 1 |
| 2015 | Berg: Lyric Suite / Wellesz: Sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, op. 52 | Berg, Wellesz; Emerson String Quartet, Renée Fleming | | 1 |
| 2017 | Chaconnes and Fantasias | Britten, Purcell; Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 2020 | String Quartets nos. 1-3, op. 41 | Robert Schumann; Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 2022 | Dvořák | Dvořák; Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| 2023 | Infinite Voyage | Schoenberg, Hindemith, Berg, Chausson; Emerson String Quartet, Barbara Hannigan, Bertrand Chamayou | | 2 |
| — | »Jagd-Quartett« / »Dissonanzen-Quartett« | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| — | Beethoven: Streichquartet, op. 135 / Schubert: Streichquartett, D. 887 | Beethoven, Schubert; Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
| — | String Quartets nos. 1-3, op. 41 | Emerson String Quartet | | 1 |
