Sherba, John [Violin]

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...

Music of Bill Evans

1 CD / Savoy Label Group / 2004-06-29

Works: Bill Evans: Waltz For Debbie; Very Early, for jazz piano trio; Re; Time Remembered, for jazz piano trio; Walking Up, for jazz piano trio; Turn Out the Stars, for jazz piano trio; Five, for jazz piano...
Performers: Dutt, Hank; Gomez, Eddie [Bassist]; Hall, Jim; Harrington, David; Jeanrenaud, Joan; Sherba, John [Violin]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

For their second and final jazz project, the adventurous Kronos Quartet (a top classical string quartet) performed eight Bill Evans compositions, plus "Nardis" (which Evans always claimed Miles Davis ...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).

The e...continue...

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...

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

Ostertag: All The Rage / Kronos Quartet

1 CD / Warner Classics / 1993-10-26

Works: Bob Ostertag: All the Rage, for string quartet
Performers: Dutt, Hank; Gupton, Eric; Harrington, David; Jeanrenaud, Joan; Ostertag, Bob; Sherba, John [Violin]
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

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

Recording information: Master Sound Astoria Studios, Astoria, NY (04/1993).

This stirring ...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...

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...