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The Music of Vladimir Martynov / Kronos Quartet

1 CD / Nonesuch / 2012-01-10

Works: Vladimir Martynov: The Beatitudes, for string quartet; Schubert-Quintet (Unfinished); Der Abschied, for string quartet
Performers: Jeanrenaud, Joan
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

Recording information: Skywalker Sound, Nicasio, CA (12/13/2010-12/16/2010)....continue...

Sculthorpe, Sallinen, Glass, Nancarrow / Kronos Quartet

1 CD / Nonesuch / 2011-10-04

Works: Peter Sculthorpe: String quartet; Aulis Sallinen: Quartet for Strings no 3 ("Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik's Funeral March"), Op. 19; Philip Glass: Company; Conlon Nancarrow: Quartet for Strings...
Performers: Dutt, Hank; Harrington, David; Heanrenaud, Joan; Sherba, John [Violin]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

This recording is representative, according to the liner notes, of what a Kronos Quartet concert might be like. There are performances by a disparate selection of contemporary composers with a catchy ...continue...

Kronos plays Holmgreen

1 Super Audio CD / Dacapo / 2008-10-28

Works: Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Concerto grosso for String Quartet & Symphonic Ensemble; Moving Still, for voice & string quartet; Last Ground, for string quartet & ocean
Performers: Hillier, Paul
Conductors: Dausgaard, Thomas
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (b. 1932) is one of the leading Scandinavian composers, an outstanding and insistent voice from the generation born in the inter-war years. This...continue...

Glass Box - Philip Glass Nonesuch Retrospective

10 CD / Nonesuch / 2008-09-30

Works: Philip Glass: Contrary Motion; Music with Changing Parts; Music in Similar Motion; Music in 12 parts; Einstein on the Beach; Closing; North Star; Dressed like an Egg; Mad Rush; MEDLEY; Koyaanisqatsi;...
Performers: Allen, Sanford; Anderer, Joseph; Arner, Leonard; Baker, Timothy; Balm, Neil; Barab, Seymour; Bargen, Karl; Bauch, Ethan; Beckenstein, Marion; Benary, Barbara; Benincasa, Rex; Bielawa, Lisa; Bielecki,...
Conductors: Riesman, Michael; Keene, Christopher; ; Davies, Dennis R.; Goldray, Martin; Ingman, Nick
Ensemble: ; American Composers Orchestra; Bruckner Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra; Kronos Quartet; Lyric Quartet; New York City Opera Orchestra; Philip Glass Ensemble; Quena Ensemble; String Orchestra; S...

This elegantly packaged 10-disc retrospective surveys four decades of work by Philip Glass, from his earliest solo pieces to his world-renowned operas to his Oscar-nominated...continue...

Vasks: String Quartet no 4 / Kronos Quartet

1 CD / Nonesuch Import / 2003-08-19

Works: Peteris Vasks: Quartet for Strings no 4
Performers: Kronos Quartet
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

Vasks' Fourth String Quartet, composed of five movements, was commissioned for the Kronos Quartet and was premiered in 2000 at the Theatre de la Ville...continue...
Personnel: David Harrington, John Sherba (violin); Hank Dutt (viola); Jennifer Culp (cello).

Recording information: Skywalker Sound, Nicasio, CA (08/2002)....continue...

Nuevo / Kronos Quartet

1 CD / Warner Classics / 2002-04-09

Works: Severiano Briseño: El sinaloense; Agustín Lara: Se me hizo fácil; Juan Garcia Esquivel: Mini skirt; Traditional: El Llorar (Crying); Alberto Dominguez: Perfidia; Silvestre Revueltas:...
Performers: Albarran, Ruben; Bringas, Alfredo; Conte, Luis; Culp, Jennifer; De Real, Emmanuel; Dutt, Hank; Flores, Alejandro; Florinda, Dona; Gallardo, Ricardo; Garcia, Carlos [leaf]; Gomez Bolanos, Roberto; Gom...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Café Tacuba ; Kronos Quartet; Tambuco

"Nuevo" is something of a near-hallucinatory journey in sound. A bawdy song from Mazatlan, a romantic standard of the 60's, "space-age bachelor pad music" of...continue...
This album was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Classical

Crossover Album.

Personnel: Rominko Mendez Xik, Efrén Vargas, Carmen Gomez Oso (vocals); Rita Cantalagua, Josel...continue...

Caravan

1 CD / Warner Classics / 2000-04-18

Works: Aleksandra Vrebalov: Pannonia Boundless, for string quartet; Carlos Paredes: Cançao Verdes Anos; Romance no 1; Rahul Dev Burman: Aaj Ki Raat (from the film Anamika); Enrique Rangel: La Muerte Ch...
Performers: Culp, Jennifer; Dutt, Hank; Gheorghe, Anghel "Caliu"; Harrington, David; Hussain, Zakir; Jones, Martyn; Kalhor, Kayhan; Kaspar, Souhail; Kronos Quartet; Lautaru, Constantin; Lautaru, Constantin "Cost...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet; Taraf de Haïdouks

Personnel: David Harrington, John Sherba (violin); Kayhan Kalhor (kamancha); Hank Dutt (viola); Jennifer Culp (cello); Ali Jihad Racy (nay); Martyn Jones (drums); Zakir Hussain (tabla).

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Glass: Dracula / Kronos Quartet

1 CD / Warner Classics / 1999-08-31

Works: Philip Glass: Dracula
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

In Formation / Kronos Quartet

1 CD / Reference Recordings / 1999-05-13

Works: David Kechley: The Funky Chicken; Ken Benshoof: Remember; When; Derek Thunes: Blues; Wind on My Back, for string quartet; Huntley Beyer: Enantiodromia High, for string quartet; Alan Dorsey: Joan's Bl...
Performers: Dutt, Hank; Harrington, David; Jeanrenaud, Joan; Kronos Quartet; Sherba, John [Violin]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

Selections recorded January and March, 1979.

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

Recording information: St. Mary's Cathedral, ...continue...

Adams: Gnarly Buttons, etc / Adams, Collins, Kronos Quartet

1 CD / Warner Classics / 1998-04-21

Works: John Adams: John's Book of Alleged Dances, for string quartet; Gnarly Buttons
Performers: Adams, John [Composer]; Atherton, Joan; Chase, Roger; Collins, Michael [Conductor/Clarinet]; Dutt, Hank; Harrington, David; Hirsch, Rebecca; Houghton, Lynda; Hulse, Gareth; Jeanrenaud, Joan; Kampen, ...
Conductors: ; Adams, John [Composer]
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet; London Sinfonietta

Schuller: Symbiosis; Lee / Kronos Quartet, Collage, et al

1 CD / GM Recordings / 1997-12-01

Works: Thomas Oboe Lee: The Mad Frog, for oboe, bass clarinet & harp; Third String Quartet ("... Child of Uranus, father of Zeus"); Gunther Schuller: Symbiosis for violin, piano & percussion
Performers: Ajemian, Anahid; Ajemian, Maro; Annis, Robert; Chohen, Fredric T.; Dutt, Hank; Harrington, David; Jeanrenaud, Joan; Pilot, Ann Hobson; Rosenberger, Walter; Sherba, John [Violin]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac The Blind / Kronos

1 CD / Warner Classics / 1997-03-18

Works: Osvaldo Golijov: Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, for clarinet & string quartet
Performers: Dutt, Hank; Harrington, David; Jeanrenaud, Joan; Krakauer, David; Kronos Quartet; Sherba, John [Violin]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

"...[Golijov] has recently written a homage to tango maestro Astor Piazzolla. The klezmer and tango elements in Dreams And Prayers of Isaac The Blind are...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...

Released 1985-1995 / Kronos Quartet

2 CD / Warner Classics / 1995-10-24

Works: Dumisani Maraire: Mai Nozipo, for ngoma, hosho & string quartet ("Mother Nozipo"); Astor Piazzolla: Five Tango Sensations, for bandoneón & string quartet (abridgement and arrangement of Sette ...
Performers: Caballero, Larry; John Taylor [Engineer/Editor]; Kronos Quartet; Manning, Patty
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

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

Night Prayers

1 CD / Nonesuch (USA) Import / 1994-09-06

Works: Traditional: Kongerei; Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky: Lacrymosa; Franghiz Ali-Zadeh: Mugam Sayagi, for string quartet; Sofia Gubaidulina: Quartet for Strings no 4, with tape; Tigran Tahmizyan: A Cool Wind is...
Performers: Aleksandrovich, Mikhail; Alexandrovich, Misha; Dutt, Hank; Gasparyan, Djivan; Harrington, David; Jeanrenaud, Joan; Kronos Quartet; Sherba, John [Violin]; Throat Singers of Tuva; Upshaw, Dawn [Soprano...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet; Tuvan Singers

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...

Black Angels

1 CD / / 1990-07-03

Works: George Crumb: Black Angels (Images I), for electric string quartet; Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium; István Márta: Doom. A Sigh, for voice & Roumanian folk ensemble; Charles Ives: They Are...
Performers: Dutt, Hank; Harrington, David; Jeanrenaud, Joan; Sherba, John [Violin]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

Black Angels is one of Kronos' finest works, a haunting cycle of compositions thematically linked by their relationships to war and brutality. The title piece, composed by George Crumb in response to ...continue...