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Peter Sculthorpe, Aulis Sallinen, Philip Glass, Conlon Nancarrow, Jimi Hendrix, Hank Dutt, David Harrington, Joan Jeanrenaud, John Sherba - Kronos Quartet

Peter Sculthorpe, Aulis Sallinen, Philip Glass, Conlon Nancarrow, Jimi Hendrix, Hank Dutt, David Harrington, Joan Jeanrenaud, John Sherba - Kronos Quartet

Band: Peter Sculthorpe, Aulis Sallinen, Philip Glass, Conlon Nancarrow, Jimi Hendrix, Hank Dutt, David Harrington, Joan Jeanrenaud, John Sherba Title: Kronos Quartet Rating: Release Date: 25 October, 1990 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: String Quartet No. 8: Con dolore 2: String Quartet No. 8: Risoluto 3: String Quartet No. 8: Con dolore 4: String Quartet No. 8: Con precisione 5: String Quartet No. 8: Con dolore 6: String Quartet No. 3: Some Aspects Of Peltoniemi Hintrik's Funderal March 7: Company: Company - I 8: Company: Company - II 9: Company: Company - III 10: Company: Company - IV 11: String Quartet: Allegro molto 12: String Quartet: Andante moderato 13: String Quartet: Prestissimo 14: Purple Haze

Editoral Review 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. 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. 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 Weidenbaum .. You can see a complete list of all Peter Sculthorpe, Aulis Sallinen, Philip Glass, Conlon Nancarrow, Jimi Hendrix, Hank Dutt, David Harrington, Joan Jeanrenaud, John Sherba discography, or go back to the Peter Sculthorpe, Aulis Sallinen, Philip Glass, Conlon Nancarrow, Jimi Hendrix, Hank Dutt, David Harrington, Joan Jeanrenaud, John Sherba tabs