Nonesuch Import > Cello

Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

1 CD / Nonesuch Import / 1998-03-31

Works: Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Performers: Armstrong, Rebecca; Beckenstein, Marion; Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Bush, Phillip; Clayton, Jay; Ferchen, Timothy; Hartenberger, Russ; Kvistad, Garry; LeBlanc, Jeanne; Lim, Elizabeth; Niemann, Edmund;...

Personnel: Steve Reich (piano, marimba); Jay Clayton (vocals, piano); Marion Beckenstein, Rebecca Armstrong (soprano); Elizabeth Lim, Shem Guibbory (violin); Ken Ishii, Jeanne LeBlanc (cello); Virgil ...continue...

Tan Dun: Ghost Opera / Wu Man, Kronos Quartet

1 CD / Nonesuch Import / 1997-03-18

Works: Tan Dun: Ghost Opera, for string quartet & pipa, with stone, water, paper, and metal
Performers: Dutt, Hank; Hamilton, Donald; Harrington, David; Heanrenaud, Joan; Kronos Quartet; Man, Wu; Sherba, John [Violin]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

Recording information: 01/1996.

For Tan Dun's Ghost Opera, the Kronos Quartet had their instrumental abilities stretched to include various percussion, wind instruments, and vocals and were joi...continue...

Kronos Quartet - Short Stories

1 CD / Nonesuch Import / 1993-03-09

Works: Elliott Sharp: Digital; Willie Dixon: Spoonful; John Oswald: Spectre, for string quartet; John Zorn: Cat o' Nine Tails (Tex Avery Directs the Marquis de Sade), for string quartet; Henry Cowell: Quart...
Performers: Bhatt, Krishna; Constant, John; Dutt, Hank; Harrington, David; Jeanrenaud, Joan; Kronos Quartet; Mackey, Steven; Nath, Pandit Pran; Riley, Terry [Composer]; Sherba, John [Violin]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

Personnel: Pran Nath (vocals); David Harrington, John Sherba (violin); Hank Dutt (viola); Joan Jeanrenaud (cello).

Recording information: Different Fur, San Francisco, CA (10/1990-08/1992); Sk...continue...

Winter Was Hard / Kronos Quartet

1 CD / Nonesuch Import / 1988-10-04

Performers: Dutt, Hank; Harrington, David; Jeanrenaud, Joan; Kronos Quartet; Marclay, Christian; Miller, Earl L.; Sherba, John
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

Winter Was Hard is a fairly typical early mélange type recording by Kronos, mixing in au courant contemporary fare with a downtown edge and 20th century classics. Of the former, John Zorn's "Forb...continue...