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Adams: Harmonium, etc / Adams, San Francisco SO, et al

1 CD / Nonesuch Import / 2000-06-20

Works: John Adams: Harmonium; Choruses from "The Death of Klinghoffer", for chorus
Performers: Adams, John [Composer]
Conductors: Adams, John [Composer]

25 Years: Retrospective

10 CD / Nonesuch Import / 1998-10-20

Works: John Adams: John's Book of Alleged Dances, for string quartet; Arvo Pärt: Fratres; Psalom, for string quartet; Summa; Missa sillabica, for chorus; Ken Benshoof: Traveling Music no 4, for string ...
Performers: Brosnan, Michael; Hargis, Ellen; Hillier, Paul; Krakauer, David; Kronos Quartet; Nolan, Mark; Piazzolla, Astor; Rogers, Neal; Takahashi, Aki

The 20th century has not been kind to most standard classical music forms. The piano sonata, the concerto, the symphony -- none of them have disappeared entirely, but none remain in a state that could...continue...

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...

Andriessen: De Tijd / De Leeuw, Schoenberg Ensemble

1 CD / Nonesuch Import / 1993-05-14

Works: Louis Andriessen: De Tijd
Conductors: Leeuw, Reinbert de
Ensemble: Netherlands Chamber Choir

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...

Adams: American Elegies / Adams, Upshaw, Crossley

1 CD / Nonesuch Import / 1991-03-26

Works: Charles Ives: Contemplations (2); Thoreau; Down East; Cradle Song; At the River; Serenity, for chorus, harps & violins ad lib & timpani, S. 177 (K. 5B3); Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes, for brass sextet...
Performers: Adams, John [Composer]; Crossley, Paul; Diamond, David; Frank Martin [Composer]; Ives, Charles; Marshall, Ingram; Upshaw, Dawn
Conductors: Adams, John [Composer]

Alma Brasileira / Sergio and Odair Assad

1 CD / Nonesuch Import / 1988-08-23

Works: Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Lenda do Caboclo, W 166; Chôro no 5 for Piano "Alma brasileira"; Egberto Gismonti: Variations on "Frevo"; Baiao Malandro; Radamés Gnattali: Suite retratos; Toccata ...
Performers: Assad, Odair; Assad, Sérgio

Adams: Harmonielehre / Edo De Waart, San Francisco SO

1 CD / Nonesuch Import / 1987-01-01

Works: John Adams: Harmonielehre
Conductors: De Waart, Edo