Kronos Quartet
“In a brilliant example of creative programming, the first seven pieces, while written from Beijing to Tennessee over a period of 70 years, flow together into an organic whole, functioning as movements of an implied larger work greater than the sum of the individual parts… Kronos caps the program with Bela Bartok’s riveting 1927 Quartet # 3 which not only foreshadows the innovative technique and emotional breadth of all the other selections but trumps them with a tight, efficient, confident focus. It’s a valiant gesture imbued with taste and integrity, as if, having explored the range of more modern quartet music, Kronos simply had to bow in awe before the magnetic splendor of an earlier visionary masterpiece.”
1988 Grammy Nominee – Best Chamber Music Performance
David Harrington on the making of White Man Sleeps, Kronos’ second full-length for Nonesuch Records: “All the while I was puzzling, how do we organize this mass of musical information into coherent experiences? With our concerts in those days, in the mid-80s, there were just so many ideas that we were experimenting with. Then it was the same way with the albums… If you go back and listen to our early albums for Nonesuch, what I love about them is that you never know what is going to happen next.”
SELECT CREDITS
Kronos Quartet
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Joan Jeanrenaud, cello
Produced by Judith Sherman
Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz
Released by Kronos Quartet
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