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| 25 Years: Retrospective | 
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| Artists: Suzanne Elder, Paul Hillier, David Krakauer, John Adams, Franguiz Ali-zadeh, Ken Benshoof, George Crumb, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Osvaldo Golijov, Henryk Gorecki, Sofiya Gubaydulina, Arvo Part, P. Q. Phan, Astor Piazzolla, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Alfred Schnittke, Peter Sculthorpe, Kevin Volans, Aki Takahashi, Ellen L. Hargis, Neal Rogers, Kronos Quartet
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $99.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 156870
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 10
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 5.3 x 3.4
UPC: 075597950427
EAN: 0075597950427
ASIN: B00000DD9B
Release Date: October 27, 1998
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Judah to Ocean | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Toot Nipple | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Dogjam | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Pavane: She's So Fine | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Rag the Bone | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Habanera | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Stubble Crochet | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Hammer & Chisel | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Alligator Escalator | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Standchen: The Little Serenade | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Judah to Ocean (Reprise) | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Fratres | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Psalom | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Summa | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Missa Syllabica: Kyrie | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Gloria | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Credo | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Sanctus | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Agnus Dei | | • | John's Book of Alleged Dances (1994): Ite, missa est |
Disc 2
| • | Traveling Music: 1. Gentle, easy | | • | Traveling Music: 2. Moderate | | • | Traveling Music: 3. Driving | | • | Song of Twenty Shadows | | • | Five Tango Sensations: Asleep | | • | Five Tango Sensations: Loving | | • | Five Tango Sensations: Anxiety | | • | Five Tango Sensations: Despertar | | • | Five Tango Sensations: Fear | | • | Five Tango Sensations: Four, for Tango |
Disc 3
| • | Piano And String Quartet (1985) - Various Artists |
Disc 4
| • | Quartet # 4 (Buczak, 1989): I | | • | Quartet # 4 (Buczak, 1989): II | | • | Quartet # 4 (Buczak, 1989): III | | • | Mishima Quartet, Quartet #3 (1985): 1957 - Award Montage | | • | Mishima Quartet, Quartet #3 (1985): November 25 - Ichigaya | | • | Mishima Quartet, Quartet #3 (1985): 1934 - Grandmother and Kimitake | | • | Mishima Quartet, Quartet #3 (1985): 192 - Body Building | | • | Mishima Quartet, Quartet #3 (1985): Blood Oath | | • | Mishima Quartet, Quartet #3 (1985): Mishima/Closing | | • | Company, Quartet #2 (1983): I | | • | Company, Quartet #2 (1983): II | | • | Company, Quartet #2 (1983): III | | • | Company, Quartet #2 (1983): IV | | • | Quartet #5 (1991): I | | • | Quartet #5 (1991): II | | • | Quartet #5 (1991): III | | • | Quartet #5 (1991): IV | | • | Quartet #5 (1991): V |
Disc 5
| • | The Dreams & Prayers of Isaac the Blind: Prelude: Calmo, sospeso | | • | The Dreams & Prayers of Isaac the Blind: I. Agitato - Con fucco - Maestoso - Senza misura, oscilante | | • | The Dreams & Prayers of Isaac the Blind: II. Teneramente - Ruvido - Presto | | • | The Dreams & Prayers of Isaac the Blind: III. Calmo, sospeso - Allego pesante | | • | The Dreams & Prayers of Isaac the Blind: Postlude: Lento, liberamente | | • | Quartet #4 (1993) | | • | Mugam Sayagi (1993) |
Disc 6
| • | Quasi una fantasia (Quartet #2), Op.64 (1990-91): I. Largo (Sostenuto - Mesto) | | • | Quasi una fantasia (Quartet #2), Op.64 (1990-91): II. DecisoEnergico (Marcatissimo sempre) | | • | Quasi una fantasia (Quartet #2), Op.64 (1990-91): III. Arioso: Adagio cantabile | | • | Quasi una fantasia (Quartet #2), Op.64 (1990-91): IV. Allegro (Sempre con grande passione e molto marcato) | | • | Already It is Dusk (Quartet #1), Op.62 (1988) |
Disc 7
| • | Different Trains: America Before The War | | • | Different Trains: Europe During The War | | • | Different Trains: America After The War | | • | Black Angels: I. Departure - 1. Thenody I: Night Of The Electric Insects - 2. Sounds Of Bones And Flutes - 3. Lost Bells - 4. Devil-Music - 5. Danse Macabre | | • | Black Angels: II. Absence - 6. Pavana Lachrymae - 7. Threnody II: Black Angels! - 8. Sarabanda de la Muerte Oscura - 9. Losts Bells (Echo) | | • | Black Angels: III. Return - 10. God Music - 11. Ancient Voices - 12. Ancient Voices (Echo) - 13. Thenody III: Night Of The Electric Insects |
Disc 8
| • | Cadenza on the Night Plain (1984): Introduction | | • | Cadenza on the Night Plain (1984): Cadenza: Violin I | | • | Cadenza on the Night Plain (1984): Where Was Wisdom When We Went West? | | • | Cadenza on the Night Plain (1984): Cadenza: Viola | | • | Cadenza on the Night Plain (1984): March of the Old Timers Reefer Division | | • | Cadenza on the Night Plain (1984): Cadenza: Violin II | | • | Cadenza on the Night Plain (1984): Tuning to Rolling Thunder | | • | Cadenza on the Night Plain (1984): The Night Cry of Black Buffalo Woman | | • | Cadenza on the Night Plain (1984): Cadenza: Cello | | • | Cadenza on the Night Plain (1984): Gathering of the Spiral Clan | | • | Cadenza on the Night Plain (1984): Captain Jack Has the Last Word | | • | Cadenza on the Night Plain (1984): G Song | | • | Salome Dances for Peace (1985-86) - III. The Gift: Echoes of Primordial Tim | | • | Salome Dances for Peace (1985-86) - III. The Gift: Mongolian Winds | | • | V. Good Medicine: Good Medicine Dance |
Disc 9
| • | Quartet No. 2 (1981): I. Moderato | | • | Quartet No. 2 (1981): II. Agitato | | • | Quartet No. 2 (1981): III. Mesto | | • | Quartet No. 2 (1981): IV. Moderato | | • | Quartet No. 4 (1989): I. Lento | | • | Quartet No. 4 (1989): II. Allegro | | • | Quartet No. 4 (1989): III. Lento | | • | Quartet No. 4 (1989): IV. Vivace | | • | Quartet No. 4 (1989): V. Lento | | • | Collected Songs Where Every Verse Is Filled With Grief (1984-85) |
Disc 10
| • | Jabiru Dreaming, Quartet #11 (1990): I. Deciso | | • | Jabiru Dreaming, Quartet #11 (1990): II. Amoroso | | • | Quartet #8 (1969): I. Con dolore | | • | Quartet #8 (1969): II. Risoluto; calmo | | • | Quartet #8 (1969): III. Con dolore | | • | Quartet #8 (1969): IV. Con precisione | | • | Quartet #8 (1969): V. Con dolore | | • | From Ubirr (1994) | | • | Tragedy at the Opera (1995) | | • | White Man Sleeps Quartet #1: First Dance | | • | White Man Sleeps Quartet #1: Second Dance | | • | White Man Sleeps Quartet #1: Third Dance | | • | White Man Sleeps Quartet #1: Fourth Dance | | • | White Man Sleeps Quartet #1: Fifth Dance |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
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. As one might expect, the set is stuffed with contrasts, from the first CD, with its 11-part, upstepping John Adams suite and then the far more solemn Missa Syllabica from Arvo Paert. Nearly 20 of these pieces here were composed expressly for Kronos, pitched and sculpted for their easily-racked mixture of straightforward string quartet roles and intelligently restructured approaches to the even the simplest gestures. Perhaps most key here is George Crumb's Black Angels, in large part due to Crumb's role in inspiring David Harrington to form Kronos 25 years ago. Crumb's music spirals and chases through the air, engaging high pitches and fast pacings as if they were ends in themselves. Gone from this set are most of the short snippets that have filled some of Kronos's other fine single CD recordings. In abundance instead are some of the legendary works: Morton Feldman's long, endlessly patient Piano and String Quartet (with Aki Takahashi), Steve Reich's unnerving Different Trains, and Henryk Gorecki's String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2. There are also some of the astounding Eastern European works from Night Prayers as well, including the stunning Quartet No. 4 from Sofia Gubaidulina. And of course there are the Kronos biggie pieces: Philip Glass's works fill one CD, and so do Terry Riley's. What's more, Riley's Cadenza on the Night Plain and "G Song" are presented here in entirely fresh, new recordings. What the listener gets is a huge block of music, full of shifting colors and textures but perfectly apt in giving a wide-angle vantage on what Kronos has done for contemporary music. --Andrew Bartlett
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| Customer Reviews:
A worthwhile investment October 6, 2003
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
It would be an understatement to say that this is a fabulous box set. All 10 CDs are packed with some fabulous music that beautifull highlights the first 25 years of the Kronos Quartet, and the booklet included provides a great history of the group as well as nice blurbs on the composers and their pieces.Equally nice about the box set is the inclusion of multiple new recordings, thus making this a worthwhile investment for fans. The Peter Sculthorpe Quartets are a particularly nice addition, as are the added Piazzolla, Part, and Riley compositions. Along with this, the "classic" Kronos recordings are all here: "Black Angels" "Different Trains" "Salome Dances for Peace" (well, exceprts), and Feldman's Piano and String Quartet. Of particular note, I think is the inclusion of Gubaidulina's Quartet No 4, a fabulous recording that is otherwise hidden in Kronos' recording "Night Prayers." Yes, this is quite an investment, but I firmly believe that it's worth it - longtime fans and newcomers alike have a lot to gain from this collection.
 Excelent compilation! September 8, 2001
4 out of 17 found this review helpful
I like more classic period, like Hayden, but Cronos does it very well, technicaly excelent. The ten sets are wonderful recordings and the selection is unique. It deserves the investment, If you buy it, youre going to have more than ten hours of joy.
Amazingly Now Retrospective June 26, 2001
2 out of 13 found this review helpful
Since their youthful start in the NW back in the 70's, Kronos has collaborated with, commissioned, or just played such a breadth of musicians it almost seems that breadth - and especially non western world culture - is their mission. But, while this conservatively and esthetically designed 25-yr-retrospective box (with its increasingly sophisticated photo-portraits) belies the pulsation of social angst and conscience that underlies the bulk of the inclusions, the latter concern, its vitality and relevance - and not some stylish chasing after cultural breadth - is what overtakes the listener/reader, rather soon. I say reader, since the booklet is very helpful, especially to the relative novice, and well balanced in its coverage of composers, historical contexts, performers, individual texts, etc.There are probably more non contemporaries performed by the Quartet over the years than this selection would indicate. That undercuts their ties with the sense of revolution in music throughout the ages, but it leaves more time for the present: and that is where one expects the group wishes to be, is most contributory and challenged, and is best and most fairly judged. Highly recommended, both for those who know Kronos's work well and wish a handsome tribute on their shelf, and for those who do not but are open and ready to be affected, whether impacted esthetically, reminded socio-morally, or whatever combination of both befits.
How Could You Not Listen? December 19, 1998
20 out of 23 found this review helpful
My opinion pales when compared to this CD. Indeed the group's ingeniousness, its knowing and its balls are in full display here, hopefully to put to rest any lingering contention that there is little more to Kronos than form. To any person who accepts the merits of 20th-century music, this CD presents the genius of our culture and teaches that daring and ingenuity do not have to be sacrificed on the road to technical brilliance. My only regret is that the CD does not include Kronos's interpretation of Bartok. But, so what? Gorecki's here, as are Part and Benshoof. Listen to this CD -- soar and struggle with it.
Good for help to know up-to-date contemporaly music November 27, 1998
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
The Kronos Quartet has released many albums. There let us see what the quartet has tried new titles and arrenges in each period. But this is the best set for understand the quartet as summary of thier works. The CDs are distributed by each composers and we can see thier identities easily.Unfortunately this dose not include all but be enough to see what the quartet has been.I hope that every classical music fans(not only contemporaly music fans) listen this CDs.
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