Kronos Quartet/London Sinfonie
Adams:gnarly Buttons Etc. [ Nonesuch / CD ] |
BRYCE DESSNER
Aheym Kronos Quartet [ Epitaph / CD - released 8/Nov/2013 ] Bryce Dessner is a guitarist with the alternative rock and Americana band the National, and this album with the Kronos Quartet appears not on its longtime label home of Nonesuch but on the rock-oriented ANTI imprint. The sound, from the standpoint of... |
Kronos Quartet/Ali-Zadeh
Ali-Zadeh: Mugam Sayagi [ Nonesuch / CD - released 7/Feb/2005 ] |
LISZT / BERG / WEBERN
At the grave of Richard Wagner Kronos Quartet [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 24/Sep/1993 ] Combining a unique musical vision with a fearless dedication to experimentation, Kronos has assembled a body of work unparalleled in its range and scope of expression, and in the process, has captured the attention of audiences worldwide. |
Dawn Kronos Quartet/Upshaw
Berg: Lyric Suite [ Nonesuch / CD - released 3/Nov/2003 ] |
GEORGE CRUMB / THOMAS TALLIS / CHARLES IVES / ISTVAN MARTA
Black Angels Kronos Quartet [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] "Stylishly packaged, intelligently programmed, superbly recorded and brilliantly performed." (Gramophone) |
Kronos Quartet
Black Angels (LP) [ Nonesuch / Warner / 2 LP - released 16/Feb/2024 ] "Stylishly packaged, intelligently programmed, superbly recorded and brilliantly performed. In short, very much the sort of disc we've come to expect from the talented and imaginative Kronos Quartet." |
Kronos Quartet, with Zakir Hussain, Taraf de Haidouks, Martyn Jones, +
Caravan [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 6/Mar/2001 ] Kronos Caravan is inspired by the part of the world once known as "Pannonia" - the territory that connects northeastern Europe with the Mediterranean and western Asia. This crossroads of peoples and cultures is the starting point for this recording |
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Complete Music For String Quartet Kronos Quartet [ Nonesuch Records / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/1998 ] "Listen long enough and you'll get it." (Amazon.com) |
STEVE REICH
Reich: Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint Kronos Quartet / Pat Metheny [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 14/Sep/1990 ] Since its inception in 1973, the Kronos Quartet has emerged as a leading voice for new work. Combining a unique musical vision with a fearless dedication to experimentation, Kronos has assembled a body of work unparalleled in its range and scope. |
PHILIP GLASS
Dracula (Soundtrack) Kronos Quartet [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2001 ] the first original score for the 1931 horror classic - Dracula |
OSVALDO GOLIJOV
Dreams And Prayers Of Isaac The Blind Kronos Quartet with David Krakauer (clarinet, bass clarinet, basset horn) [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 15/Apr/1997 ] The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind is a kind of epic, a history of Judaism. It has Abraham, exile, and redemption. The movements sound like they are in three of the languages spoken in almost 6,000 years of Jewish history: the first in... |
KAIJA SAARIAHO
Saariaho: Du cristal, ...a la fumae; Nymphea (Jardin secret III) / Sept Papillons Kronos Quartet / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor, with Anssi Karttunen, cello [ Ondine / CD - released 10/Jun/2004 ] "In terms of style , Kaija Saariaho has achieved what many Finnish composers have struggled for in vain - to move completely out of the shadow of Sibelius. The performances are stunning. Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic combine... |
Kronos Quartet / Aki Takahashi (Piano)
Feldman-Piano and String Quartet [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 24/Sep/1993 ] "The Feldman experience par excellence." Gramophone Feb 1994 |
PHILIP GLASS / LISA BIELAWA / GABRIEL KAHANE / JOHN ZORN etc
Final Answer Kronos Quartet, Andy meyerson, Matthew Welch, Theo Bleckmann [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] Orange Mountain Music presents a new album by the outstanding San Francisco Girls Chorus conducted by Valerie Sainte-Agathe. This new recording features music by composers Philip Glass, Lisa Bielawa, Gabriel Kahane, John Zorn, Carla Kihlstedt,... |
Kronos Quartet
Floodplain [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 25/May/2009 ] With these 12 pieces, Kronos Quartet explore centuries-old traditions while also presenting adventurous new music by young composers who sample and reinterpret aspects of their indigenous cultures. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Folk Songs Kronos Quartet, with Natalie Merchant, Olivia Chaney, Sam Amidon & Rhiannon Giddens [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 3/Jul/2017 ] "I've always wanted the string quartet to be vital, and energetic, and alive, and cool, and not afraid to kick ass and be absolutely beautiful and ugly if it has to be. But it has to be expressive of life. To tell the story with grace and humor and... |
PHILIP GLASS
Glass Box (10 CD set incls Koyaanisqatsi, Satyagraha & Hydrogen Jukebox) various artists, including the Kronos Quartet, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Lyric Quartet, Douglas Perry (tenor), Philip Glass Ensemble [ Nonesuch Records / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2009 ] A deluxe 10-CD compilation taken from Glass' extensive catalog and ranging from 1969 to 2005.e Godfather of minimalism Philip Glass |
Kronos Quartet with Michael Collins (Clarinet) Christopher van Kampen (cello) John Constable (piano)
Gorecki, Henryk - Lerchenmusik (Chamber Music) [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 3/May/1991 ] "Lerchenmusik, completed in 1986, is the longest of the two compositions on this superlatively well performed and recorded disc." (Gramophone) |
Tiger Lillies & The Kronos Quartet
The Gorey End (LP) [ Misery Guts Music / LP - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Writer and illustrator Edward Gorey enjoyed the Tiger Lillies song "Banging in the Nails" (on the album The Brothel to the Cemetery) so much he sent the band a large box of his unpublished stories, some of which they adapted and turned into songs.... |