Released 1985-1995 / Kronos Quartet

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Album Summary

Performers

• Kronos Quartet (Strings)
• Patty Manning (Voice)
• John Taylor [Engineer/Editor] (Piano)
• Larry Caballero (Voice)

Ensemble

• Kronos Quartet

Composers

• Ben Johnston (1926 - )
• Terry Riley (Composer) (1935 - )
• Philip Glass (1937 - )
• Raymond Scott (Jazz) (1908 - 1994)
• Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)
• Dumisani Maraire (1943 - )
• Steve Reich (1936 - )
• George Crumb (1929 - )
• Tigran Tahmizyan
• Scott Johnson (Guitar/Composer) (1952 - )
• Astor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992)
• Henryk Mikolaj Górecki (Composer) (1933 - 2010)
• Arvo Pärt (1935 - )
• Samuel Barber (Composer) (1910 - 1981)
• Michael Daugherty (1954 - )

Notes & Reviews:

"Kronos is a quality act...There are no proper insert-notes on the music but, to be quite honest, the chosen selections are so vivid, so powerfully communicative, that written explanations would in any case have served little purpose. A remarkable achievement and essential listening for the as-yet uninitiated." -Gramophone

Notes & Reviews:

Personnel: John Taylor And Orchestra (vocals); David Harrington, John Sherba (violin); Hank Dutt (viola); Joan Jeanrenaud (cello); Dumisani Maraire (hosho, ngoma).

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Works Details

Maraire, Dumisani : Mai Nozipo, for ngoma, hosho & string quartet ("Mother Nozipo")

• Performer: Kronos Quartet (Strings)
• Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
• Running Time: 6 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Chamber Music
• Written: 1990

Piazzolla, Astor : Five Tango Sensations, for bandoneón & string quartet (abridgement and arrangement of Sette sequenze

• Performer: Kronos Quartet (Strings)
• Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
• Running Time: 5 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Chamber Music
• Written: 1990

Johnston, Ben : Quartet for Strings no 4 ("Amazing Grace")

• Performer: Kronos Quartet (Strings)
• Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
• Running Time: 11 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1973

Reich, Steve : Different Trains, for double string quartet & tape :: America - Before the war

• Performer: Kronos Quartet (Strings)
• Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
• Running Time: 9 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1988

Gorecki, Henryk M. : Quartet for Strings no 2 ("Quasi una Fantasia"), Op. 64 :: Arioso. Adagio cantabile

• Performer: Kronos Quartet (Strings)
• Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
• Running Time: 7 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1990

Riley, Terry [Composer] : Salome Dances for Peace, pieces (5) for string quartet :: The Ecstasy [Excerpt]

• Performer: Kronos Quartet (Strings)
• Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
• Running Time: 7 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Chamber Music
• Written: 1985-1987

Crumb, George : Black Angels (Images I), for electric string quartet :: God-music

• Performer: Kronos Quartet (Strings)
• Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
• Running Time: 3 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Chamber Music
• Written: 1970

Pärt, Arvo : Fratres

• Performer: Kronos Quartet (Strings)
• Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
• Running Time: 9 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Chamber Music
• Written: 1989

Glass, Philip : Quartet for Strings no 5 :: Movt. 3

• Performer: Kronos Quartet (Strings)
• Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
• Running Time: 5 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1991

Tahmizyan, Tigran : A Cool Wind is Blowing

• Performer: Kronos Quartet (Strings)
• Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
• Running Time: 4 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1993

Barber, Samuel : Adagio for Strings

• Performer: Kronos Quartet (Strings)
• Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
• Running Time: 7 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1936

Scott, Raymond : Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals

• Performer: Kronos Quartet (Strings)
• Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
• Running Time: 3 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Johnson, Scott : How It Happens for String quartet :: It Raged

• Performer: Kronos Quartet (Strings)
• Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
• Running Time: 8 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Chamber Music
• Written: 1991

Daugherty, Michael : Elvis Everywhere

• Performers: Patty Manning (Voice); Kronos Quartet (Strings); John Taylor [Engineer/Editor] (Piano); Larry Caballero (Voice)
• Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
• Running Time: 8 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Hendrix, Jimi : Purple Haze

• Performer: Kronos Quartet (Strings)
• Ensemble: Kronos Quartet
• Running Time: 3 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1967