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Concept. The Kronos Quartet have a long record of commissioning compositions and of collaborating with musicians from around the world. The compositions for this album, all written or arranged for the quartet, hail "from cultures based in areas surrounded by water and prone to catastrophic flooding," ranging from Egypt and Serbia in the west to India in the east; from Central Asia in the north ...
Short Stories. (1993) Henryk Górecki: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2. (1993) Short Stories is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, containing works by Elliott Sharp, Willie Dixon, John Oswald, John Zorn, Henry Cowell, Steven Mackey, Scott Johnson, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Pandit Pran Nath .
Long Time Passing. Long Time Passing is a 2020 album by Kronos Quartet celebrating the music of Pete Seeger. The album was commissioned by the FreshGrass Foundation and released on the Smithsonian Folkways label. [1] [2] [3] This release follows 2017's Folk Songs, which saw the Kronos Quartet teaming with a variety of folk musicians.
Music of Bill Evans. Music of Bill Evans is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, containing compositions written by or associated with Bill Evans and arranged by Tom Darter. Several tracks feature important jazz players who had recorded with Evans: Jim Hall on guitar and Eddie Gómez on bass. [1] [2]
Besides the Kronos Quartet's version of Triple Quartet, the album contains three other Reich pieces. Electric Guitar Phase, one of Reich's "phase pieces," is played by New York guitar player Dominic Frasca. The composition is an updated version of the 1967 Violin Phase arranged for guitar and tape (or four guitars).
Sun Rings is a Kronos Quartet project comprising pre-recorded sounds from space, images from space, music for string quartet and chorus composed by Terry Riley, and visuals by Willie Williams. It premiered 26 October 2002 at the Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa.
Tan Dun: Ghost Opera. (1997) Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ) (1997) Tan Dun: Ghost Opera is an album by the Kronos Quartet and Wu Man. The album contains five compositions by Chinese composer Tan Dun written in 1994 [1] for string quartet and pipa. [2] As of 2011, the composition was still on the Quartet's program.
At the Grave of Richard Wagner. (1993) Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet. (1993) At the Grave of Richard Wagner is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, containing works by Alban Berg and Anton Webern, and a brief "romantic elegy" [1] by Franz Liszt .