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Kronos Quartet
Vasks: Fourth String Quartet
Latvian composer Peteris Vasks’s specially commissioned five-movement piece reflects upon the passing 20th century. “There has been so much bloodshed and destruction,” Vasks explains, “and yet love’s power and idealism have helped to keep the world in balance.”
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Kronos Quartet
Nuevo
Kronos takes a wild ride through 20th-century Mexican music, incorporating traditional and popular tunes, TV themes, even Esquivel’s space-age lounge sounds. The Quartet, says The Independent (UK), captures “a Mexican-style ethos of ingenuity, humor, spirituality, and infinite variety.”
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Steve Reich + Kronos Quartet
Triple Quartet
Kronos Quartet, overdubbed to three times its size, performs the title piece. The Boston Phoenix noted that Triple Quartet illustrates Reich’s “penchant for maximizing melody as well as the advantages of employing technology to widen the instrumental palette.”
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Kronos Quartet
Terry Riley: Requiem for Adam
Kronos performs Terry Riley’s elegies to lost friends. The “deeply personal” title piece, says Riley, composed in memory of David Harrington’s son Adam, is “a way of coming to terms with loss, a step in coping with grief.”
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![Requiem for a Dream [Soundtrack]](http://www.nonesuch.com/files/imagecache/section-artists-latestrelease/albums/coverart/kronos-quartet-requiem-for-a-dream-soundtrack.jpg "Requiem for a Dream [Soundtrack]")
Clint Mansell + Kronos Quartet
Requiem for a Dream [Soundtrack]
This performance of Clint Mansell’s score is as haunting and harrowing as Darren Aronofsky’s film, which the New York Times called “a knockout.” A suite derived from the score has become a popular addition to the Kronos live repertoire.
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Kronos Quartet
Kronos Caravan
Kronos traces the flow of music from Northeastern Europe to the Mediterranean to Asia and back, using contemporary work to illustrate ancient traditions. Billboard declares, “Kronos Quartet continues to amaze with its conceptual acuity and cultural breadth.”
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Philip Glass + Kronos Quartet
Dracula
Kronos Quartet performs Glass's new original score for Tod Browning's classic 1931 Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi. "Glass's music doesn't scream," says the Boston Herald. "It sobs—and hits the heart as directly as, well, that vampire-destroying wooden stake."
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Kronos Quartet
25 Years (10-CD Set)
This comprehensive set marks the first 25 years of the ever-evolving Kronos Quartet. This retrospective, decided the New York Times, "does an impressive job of documenting the group's history while also doing justice to a wide range of musical styles of the last quarter of the 20th century."
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Kronos Quartet
Schnittke: Complete String Quartets
Kronos plays works created between 1966 and 1989 by the former Soviet Union’s leading composer, Alfred Schnittke. The group, says the New York Times, “has delivered a performance in which every phrase is filled with profound and resonant meaning.”
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Kronos Quartet
Early Music
Kronos juxtaposes work created as far back as the ninth century with modern, minimalist pieces. By its conclusion, notes the New York Times, “the distinctions between old and new are blurred, and the effect is comforting rather than disconcerting.”