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Featured Release
Kronos Quartet
Music of Vladimir Martynov
This album includes three works written for Kronos Quartet by the contemporary Russian composer Vladimir Martynov and features a special guest performance from former Kronos cellist Joan Jeanrenaud on a piece the Times of London describes as "something to treasure" and the Los Angeles Times calls a “masterpiece. The performance, exquisitely recorded, is radiant."
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Kronos Quartet
Music of Vladimir Martynov
This album includes three works written for Kronos Quartet by the contemporary Russian composer Vladimir Martynov and features a special guest performance from former Kronos cellist Joan Jeanrenaud on a piece the Times of London describes as "something to treasure" and the Los Angeles Times calls a “masterpiece. The performance, exquisitely recorded, is radiant."
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Kronos Quartet
Floodplain
The Evening Standard has declared, “Kronos's ears have always been open to extraordinary sounds of the world.” On Floodplain, with original arrangements of traditional music and newly commissioned pieces, Kronos explores vintage pop from Egypt, folk from Azerbaijan, electronica from a Palestinian music collective, and an ambitious piece from Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov with the contemplative grace of a Górecki masterwork.
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Kronos Quartet
Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic
Kronos’s career-long collaboration with minimalist pioneer Terry Riley continues with this work, written for the Quartet and pipa virtuoso Wu Man. The piece, "with its lullabies and entrancing Chinese songs and sweet disposition, brims with joy," writes the Los Angeles Times. Exclusive Nonesuch Store bonus download with CD: “Tusen Tankar,” a traditional Scandinavian folk song.
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Kronos Quartet
Plays Sigur Rós (MP3s)
Kronos performs a Stephen Prutsman arrangement of the Sigur Rós piece "Flugufrelsarinn," from the Icelandic quartet's breakthrough album, Ágætis Byrjun. This contemplative track is paired with the more raucous Kronos interpretation of "The Star Spangled Banner," in a Prutsman arrangement that channels Jimi Hendrix.
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Henryk Górecki + Kronos Quartet
Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ("... songs are sung")
Kronos waited a decade for Henryk Górecki, who garnered a worldwide audience with his Third Symphony, to complete this mournful, meditative work. The Quartet’s David Harrington says, “This music consoles as it faces, unflinchingly, the deepest aspects of life.”
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![The Fountain [Soundtrack]](http://www.nonesuch.com/files/imagecache/section-artists-latestrelease/albums/coverart/mansell-the-fountain-OST.jpg "The Fountain [Soundtrack]")
Clint Mansell + Kronos Quartet
The Fountain [Soundtrack]
Kronos Quartet collaborates with composer Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream) and post-rockers Mogwai on this score to Darren Aronofsky’s time-traveling sci-fi romance. The Boston Globe calls it “a great piece of mood music all on its own.”
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Kronos Quartet
You've Stolen My Heart (with Asha Bhosle)
Kronos Quartet, employing vintage electronic gear, pays homage to Bollywood composer R. D. Burman; his equally legendary wife, Asha Bosle, is featured on vocals. Says The Independent (UK), “Burman's extraordinary music sparkles and soars, aided by multifarious, multicultural collaborators and instruments.”
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Kronos Quartet
Mugam Sayagi: Music of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Kronos showcases the work—and features the piano playing—of Azerbaijani composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh. The Boston Herald calls it “utterly absorbing,” “a rich addition to the Kronos discography,” and “a marvelous introduction for many to Ali-Zadeh's music,” which, says David Harrington, “gives us exquisite interior worlds of instrumental color."
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Kronos Quartet + Dawn Upshaw
Berg: Lyric Suite
This 2003 Grammy winner for Best Chamber Music Performance, written in 1926 by Austrian Alban Berg, chronicles the married composer’s brief, secret love affair. The Kronos performance, featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw, restores a long-lost vocal portion to the piece.
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Kronos Quartet
Partch: US Highball
Kronos performs Ben Johnston’s arrangement of “Hobo composer” Harry Partch’s musical travelogue, recounting a 1941 rail-jumping journey across country. Partch, says the New York Times, “was new during his time, and his music still sounds like no one else’s.”