Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. [1] It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary classical music. More than 1,000 works have been written for it .
Kronos Quartet live in Warsaw, Poland. Photograph by Henryk Kotowski. The discography of the Kronos Quartet includes 43 studio albums, two compilations, five soundtracks, and 29 contributions to other artists' records. The Kronos Quartet plays classical, pop, rock, jazz, folk, world and contemporary classical music (often written especially for ...
Pieces of Africa. Pieces of Africa is a 1992 studio album by the Kronos Quartet, containing works commissioned by the quartet, written by seven African composers.
Kronos Quartet chronology. Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic. (2008) Floodplain. (2009) Rainbow: Music of Central Asia Vol. 8. (2010) Floodplain is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet released in 2009. All twelve compositions were written or arranged for the quartet.
Folk Songs. (Kronos Quartet album) Folk Songs is a 2017 studio album by American string quartet Kronos Quartet, featuring classical and roots musicians Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhiannon Giddens, and Natalie Merchant. It has received positive reviews from critics and was followed in 2020 by Long Time Passing, a collection of Pete Seeger songs ...
Winter Was Hard is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet. It contains compositions by Aulis Sallinen, Terry Riley, Arvo Pärt, Anton Webern, John Zorn, John Lurie, Ástor Piazzolla, Alfred Schnittke, and Samuel Barber .
Night Prayers is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet. It contains commissioned pieces with music from former Soviet republics in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, [1] and includes performances by Throat Singers of Tuva, Dawn Upshaw ( soprano ), Djivan Gasparyan ( duduk ), and Mikhail Alexandrovich ( cantor ).
Nuevo. (album) Nuevo is a 2002 album by the Kronos Quartet composed entirely of music of Mexican origin . It was inspired by a number of visits made to Mexico by the quartet's violinist and founder, David Harrington, from 1995. [1] The album was produced by Gustavo Santaolalla, David Harrington, and Judith Sherman, and co-produced by Aníbal ...