Kronos Quartet
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Performer: Peter SculthorpePerformer: Aulis Sallinen
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- String Quartet No. 8: Con dolore
- String Quartet No. 8: Risoluto
- String Quartet No. 8: Con dolore
- String Quartet No. 8: Con precisione
- String Quartet No. 8: Con dolore
- String Quartet No. 3: Some Aspects Of Peltoniemi Hintrik's Funderal March
- Company: Company - I
- Company: Company - II
- Company: Company - III
- Company: Company - IV
- String Quartet: Allegro molto
- String Quartet: Andante moderato
- String Quartet: Prestissimo
- Purple Haze
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Free Music Review: Absolutely first rate! Performance & recording are excellent
Hit: 5 Stars
I am far from knowledgable about music. However, this is a marvelous introduction to contemporary music as arranged for a string quartet. The vision and versatility of this group are really laid out here.The only piece that jars is "Purple Haze," which, sorry folks, just doesn't work with strings. While I greatly applaud Kronos' willingness to try on a rock masterpiece, Hendrix said everything that needs to be said.
I recommend this CD unreservedly! Jeff
Kronos Quartet Poster
How odd that the recording that gained Kronos its initial fame proves to be the group's least remarkable: Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze," from the group's 1985 Nonesuch debut. At the time of its release, this encore of Hendrix's canonical rock song gave many traditional cultural commentators pause, and many young fans reason to rejoice. But as the years have passed and Kronos's members have become rock stars themselves (of a sort), listeners have come to find the pleasures promised by the Hendrix cover--soul, visceral rocking, rebellion--elsewhere on this record. The Slavic tinge of Aulis Sallinen's String Quartet No. 3 offers enough melancholy for half a dozen popular songs (and, about four minutes in, some very Hendrix-like rhythms). "Psychedelic" may be the best word to describe the myriad, rapid-fire patterns of the second and fourth movements of Philip Glass's "Company." And there are few rebels so legendary in America as Conlon Nancarrow, who lived in self-exile in Mexico and whose work, this String Quartet notwithstanding, is often too complicated for humans to play. --Marc WeidenbaumClassical Music CDs
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