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Kronos Quartet. 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 .
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 them by for instance Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Alexandra Vrebalov, ...) and was founded in 1973 by violinist David ...
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 ...
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 ...
Allmusic. [1] Black Angels is a 1990 album by the string quartet Kronos Quartet. [2] It includes, [3] and was named after, George Crumb 's 1970 composition Black Angels, the composition which had inspired David Harrington to found the Kronos Quartet in 1973. [4] [5]
Different Trains. The Steve Reich Ensemble playing Different Trains. From left to right, Liz Lim-Dutton (violin) Todd Reynolds (violin), Jeanne LeBlanc (cello), Scott Rawls (viola) Different Trains is a three- movement piece for string quartet and tape written by Steve Reich in 1988.
Night Prayers. 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 ...