Since the 1930s, the Society has brought internationally famous chamber music ensembles to Liverpool, including such as: the Léner, Prague, Griller, Hungarian, Amadeus, Camilleri, Janáček, Smetena, Melos, Borodin, new Brodsky, Škampa,[2] Belcea and Pavel Haas String Quartets.
Recitalists have included: Harriet Cohen, Albert Sammons, Dennis Brain, Yfrah Neaman, Stephen Hough, Ian Bostridge, Radu Lupu, Midori, Andreas Scholl, Tasmin Little, Wolfgang Holzmair, Mark Padmore, Paul Lewis, and Nikolai Demidenko.
Also, in 2012, a postgraduate student and local resident, Louis Johnson,[9] was invited to compose a work to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Alfred Edward Rodewald.
This was performed by the Ensemble of St Luke's in the former Carnatic House, which was opposite to Rodewald's birth place in Mossley Hill, on 29 January 2012.
In 2014 Ian Stephens, from West Kirby, Wirral, was commissioned to compose an Oboe Quintet [10]in memory of two former committee members who were brilliant amateur oboists.
More recently, Timothy Jackson, Principal Horn of the RLPO as well as a composer,[11] was commissioned to write a sextet for the Pixels Ensemble [12] for performance at a lunchtime concert in the Leggate Theatre of the University on 22 March 2017.
Archives-Liverpool Record Office,[13] The public location of the Rodewald Concert Society Archives (Ref 780 RCS), which may be viewed by appointment or photocopies of individual documents may be purchased through the online catalogue.
The two archives, Refs 780 PHI and 780 RCS, were publicly launched with a joint exhibition of key items in Liverpool Central Library on 25 February 2008.