Kronos Quartet San Francisco, California
For more than 45 years, San Francisco’s Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet and its nonprofit Kronos Performing Arts Association have reimagined and redefined the string quartet experience through thousands of concerts, over 60 recordings, collaborations with composers and performers from around the globe, over 1,000 commissioned works, and education programs for emerging musicians. ... more
Kronos Quartet recommends:
Placeless
by Kronos Quartet featuring Mahsa Vahdat & Marjan Vahdat
Kronos' collaboration with Iranian composer and vocalist Mahsa Vahdat, featuring her sister Marjan Vahdat on vocals. The song lyrics are poems by Hafez, Rumi, Forough Farrokhzad, and more.
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The Gorey End
by The Tiger Lillies
Long out of print, this Grammy-nominated collaboration with the English punk cabaret trio brings the macabre and darkly funny words and images of Edward Gorey to musical life.
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All The Rage with Kronos Quartet & Eric Gupton
by Bob Ostertag
Developed from a recording made of the AB101 Veto Riot in San Francisco in Oct. 1991, which followed the veto of a bill designed to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination. Text by Sara Miles.
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Orange
by Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet
supported by 18 fans who also own “Cadenza on the Night Plain: Cadenza: Viola”
Beautiful! I love the wanderings to unexpected places in this garden.
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Reich/Richter
by Steve Reich, Ensemble intercontemporain
supported by 17 fans who also own “Cadenza on the Night Plain: Cadenza: Viola”
Harmonies, moods, rhythms interplay and interlock on R/R. Further, Reich's composition accompanying Richter's visual components lift the mind out of its over sheltered habitat and immerses it into a realm of everpresence and divine longing.
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Fragile cello and piano recall the bleak childhood of brothers Sebastian and Daniel Selke spent in a large prefab estate in East Berlin.
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