Kronos Quartet 25 Years (ten-CD box set)

Country:  USA

Genre:  Chamber ensemble, Contemporary classical music

Duration:  10h 31min

Format:  APE



Seems like only yesterday the Kronos Quartet stepped up their career as musical mavericks with a coveted, wide-open contract with Nonesuch Records. Now it's Nonesuch's turn to give Kronos the big-package nod, gathering key works recorded by the group--from younger composers and time-tested veterans alike--into this 10-CD box set.



Los Angeles Times



[This box set] 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.











Disc 1

1. - 11. John Adams: John's Book of Alleged Dances

12. Arvo Part: Fratres

13. Arvo Part: Psalom

14. Arvo Part: Summa

15. - 20. Arvo Part: Missa Syllabica



Disc 2



1. - 3. Ken Benshoof: Traveling Music

4. Ken Benshoof: Song of Twenty Shadows

5. - 9. Astor Piazzolla: Five Tango Sensations

10. Astor Piazzolla: Four, for Tango



Disc 3



1. Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet



Disc 4



1. - 3. Philip Glass: Quartet No. 4 "Buczak"

4. - 9. Philip Glass: Quartet No. 3 "Mishima"

10. - 13. Philip Glass: Quartet No. 2 "Company"

14. - 17. Philip Glass: Quartet No. 5



Disc 5



1. - 5. Osvaldo Golijov: The Dreams & Prayers of Isaac the Blind

6. Sofia Gubaidulina: Quartet No. 4

7. Franghiz Ali-Zadeh: Mugam Sayagi



Disc 6



1. - 4. Henryk Gorecki: Quasi una Fantasia, Quartet No. 2, Op. 64

5. Henryk Go'recki: Already It Is Dusk, Quartet No. 1, Op. 62



Disc 7



1. - 3. Steve Reich: Different Trains

4. - 6. George Crumb: Black Angels



Disc 8



1. - 11. Terry Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain

12. Terry Riley: G Song

13. - 14. Terry Riley: III. The Gift, from Salome Dances for Peace

15. Terry Riley: V. Good Medicine, from Salome Dances for Peace



Disc 9



1. - 4. Alfred Schnittke: Quartet No. 2

5. - 9. Alfred Schnittke: Quartet No. 4

10. Collected Songs Where Every Verse Is Filled with Grief



Disc 10



1. - 2. Peter Sculthorpe: Jabiru Dreaming, Quartet No. 11

3. - 7. Peter Sculthorpe: Quartet No. 8

8. Peter Sculthorpe: From Ubirr

9. P. Q. Phan: Tragedy at the Opera

10. - 14. Kevin Volans: #FF0000 Man Sleeps, Quartet No. 1