Kronos Quartet discography
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The discography of the Kronos Quartet includes 43 studio albums, two compilations, five soundtracks, and 29 contributions to other artists' records. The Kronos Quartet (often referred to as "Kronos" or "The Kronos") plays contemporary classical music and was founded in 1973 by violinist David Harrington. Since 1978, they are based in San Francisco, California. Since 1985, the quartet's music has been released on Nonesuch Records.
Early recordings by the quartet contain contemporary classical music and adaptations of more popular music, such as jazz and rock and roll. Since the 1980s, and especially with the release of Cadenza on the Night Plain, written as a collaboration between composer Terry Riley and the quartet, much of the quartet's repertoire and album releases contain music written especially for them, by composers such as Terry Riley, Kevin Volans, Henryk Górecki, and Ástor Piazzolla. Their music "covers a who's who of 20th century-composers", as one critic noted in 1998.[1]
Kronos has recorded five soundtracks including the 1998 score by Philip Glass for the 1931 silent movie Dracula, and has contributed to the soundtracks of five other movies, including Heat and 21 Grams. Outside the genre of classical music, Kronos has collaborated with a great number of other artists, especially pop artists, such as Joan Armatrading, Dave Matthews Band, Andy Summers, Nelly Furtado, and Nine Inch Nails.
The quartet has achieved considerable commercial and critical success and by 1998 (the year of the quartet's 25th anniversary) had sold more than 1.5 million albums.[2] Many of Kronos' albums have ranked on various Billboard charts;[3] the 1992 album Pieces of Africa reached #1 in the Top World Albums chart.[4] The quartet won a Grammy for the 2003 album Lyric Suite.
Contents
Studio albums
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1982 | In Formation |
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1985 | Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk
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1985 | Terry Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain
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1986 | Music of Bill Evans
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1986 | Kronos Quartet
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1987 | White Man Sleeps
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1988 | Winter Was Hard
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1989 | Steve Reich: Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint
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1989 | Kronos Quartet Plays Terry Riley: Salome Dances for Peace
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1990 | Black Angels
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1991 | Witold Lutosławski: String Quartet
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1991 | Kevin Volans: Hunting:Gathering
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1991 | Five Tango Sensations
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1991 | Henryk Mikolaj Górecki: Already It Is Dusk/"Lerchenmusik"
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1992 | Pieces of Africa
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1993 | Short Stories
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1993 | Henryk Górecki: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2
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1993 | At the Grave of Richard Wagner
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1993 | Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet
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1993 | Bob Ostertag: All the Rage
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1994 | Night Prayers
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1995 | Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass
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1996 | Howl, USA
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1997 | Osvaldo Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
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1997 | Tan Dun: Ghost Opera
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1997 | Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ)
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1998 | Kronos Quartet Performs Alfred Schnittke: The Complete String Quartets
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1998 | John Adams: John's Book of Alleged Dances
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2000 | Caravan
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2001 | Terry Riley: Requiem for Adam
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2001 | Steve Reich: Triple Quartet
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2002 | Nuevo
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2003 | Pēteris Vasks: String Quartet No. 4
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2003 | Alban Berg: Lyric Suite
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2003 | Harry Partch: U.S. Highball
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2005 | Mugam Sayagi: Music of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
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2005 | You've Stolen My Heart: Songs From R.D. Burman's Bollywood with Asha Bhosle
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2007 | Henryk Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ('...songs are sung')
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2007 | Kronos Quartet Plays Sigur Rós
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2008 | Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic
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*Written for the quartet, with Wu Man (pipa).[63] Reached #3 in Billboard's "Top Classical Albums" and stayed on the chart for 10 weeks.[64] |
2009 | Floodplain
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Music written or arranged for the quartet, "from cultures based in areas surrounded by water and prone to catastrophic flooding."[65] Includes long piece by Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov. |
2010 | Rainbow: Music of Central Asia Vol. 8
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With Alim and Fargana Qasimov (tracks 2-6) and Homayun Sakhi (track 1) |
2011 | Uniko
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Features Kronos Quartet, Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen (live electronics).[66] Seven-part suite for string quartet, accordion and live electronics composed by Pohjonen and Kosminen. |
Compilation albums
Year | Album details | Notes |
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1995 | Released: 1985–1995 |
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1998 | Kronos Quartet: 25 Years
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Video albums
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2000 | In Accord
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2002 | Kronos on Stage
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2007 | Polish Quartets (Kwartety polskie)
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Soundtracks
Year | Soundtrack details | Notes |
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1985 | Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters |
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1999 | Dracula
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2000 | Requiem for a Dream
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2006 | The Fountain
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2009 | 2081
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Contributions
Year | Album details | Notes |
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1986 | Philip Glass, Songs from Liquid Days
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1987 | John Zorn, Spillane |
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1993 | Chance Operation: The John Cage Tribute
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1995 | In C: 25th Anniversary Concert
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1995 | Joan Armatrading, What's Inside
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1995 | Heat
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1996 | David Grisman Quintet, DGQ-20
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1998 | Dave Matthews Band, Before These Crowded Streets
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1999 | Jay Cloidt, Kole Kat Krush
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1999 | Café Tacuba, Reves/Yosoy
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2000 | Andy Summers, Peggy's Blue Skylight
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2001 | Osvaldo Golijov,[69] The Man Who Cried
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2001 | Ingram Marshall, Kingdom Come
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2002 | Big Bad Love (soundtrack)
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2003 | Wesla Whitfield, September Songs: The Music of Wilder, Weill and Warren
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2003 | Tiger Lillies, The Gorey End
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2003 | Bird Up: The Charlie Parker Remix Project
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2003 | Nelly Furtado, Folklore
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2003 | The Company (soundtrack)
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2003 | Gustavo Santaolalla,[74] 21 Grams (soundtrack)
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2004 | Rokia Traoré, Bowmboï
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2006 | Dan Zanes, Catch that Train
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2006 | Matmos, The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
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2007 | Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation
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2007 | Osvaldo Golijov, Oceana
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2007 | Nine Inch Nails, Year Zero Remixed
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2008 | Philip Glass, Glass Box: A Nonesuch Retrospective
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2008 | Kronos Quartet, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Kronos plays Holmgreen
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2009 | Dark Was The Night
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2011 | Hazmat Modine, Cicada
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2012 | Michael Hearst, Songs for Unusual Creatures
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2014 | The Great Beauty
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References
- General
- Catalog information from "Kronos Quartet" at Nonesuch Records (retrieved 21 April 2009) for Nonesuch releases and from Amazon.com for others, except where indicated.
- Specific
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