Kronos Quartet
The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary classical music. More than 1,200 works have been written for it. The quartet has recorded over 75 albums and received a number of awards.
Genre: minimalism, avant-garde
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Top Tracks
- Journey (feat. Kronos Quartet)
- Death Is the Road to Awe (feat. Kronos Quartet)
- Stay with Me (feat. Kronos Quartet)
- Lost Light (feat. Kronos Quartet)
- Tenebrae: 2.
- Tenebrae: 1.
- Three Seasons In The Tempestuous Twelve Inch Planet
- Songs from Liquid Days: No. 6, Forgetting
- Songs from Liquid Days: No. 6, Forgetting
- Different Trains: America—Before the war
- Smell Memory
- Six Pieces: II
- Different Trains: After the war
- String Quartet No. 11 "No Ground": I. — (Live)
- Triple Quartet: Third Movement
- Triple Quartet: Second Movement
- Triple Quartet: First Movement
- Different Trains: Europe—During the war
- Quartet For Heart And Breath
- Songs from Liquid Days: No. 6, Forgetting
Albums (46)
- WITNESS (2025)
- Outer Spaceways Incorporated - Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra (2024)
- Songs & Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog (2023)
- Michael Gordon: Campaign Songs (2023)
- Mỹ Lai (2022)
- Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger (2020)
- Terry Riley: Sun Rings (2019)
- Smell Memory (2019)
- Placeless (2019)
- Michael Gordon: Clouded Yellow (2018)
- Landfall (2018)
- Ladilikan (2017)
- Folk Songs (2017)
- Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Green Ground (Live) (2016)
- Green Ground (Live) (2016)
- Aleksandra Vrebalov: The Sea Ranch Songs (2016)
- Rebirth of a Nation (2015)
- Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector (2015)
- Derek Charke: Tundra Songs (2015)
- Kronos Explorer Series (2014)
- A Thousand Thoughts (2014)
- Adventureland (2014)
- Aheym (2013)
- String Quartets (2013)
- In Formation (2012)
- Music of Vladimir Martynov (2012)
- Uniko (2011)
- Music of Central Asia Vol. 8: Rainbow (2010)
- Floodplain (2009)
- Floodplain (2009)
- The Cusp of Magic (2008)
- The Cusp of Magic (2008)
- Miniatures for String Quartet (2007)
- Henryk Gorecki: String Quartet No. 3 (...Songs Are Sung) (2007)
- Golijov: Oceana, Tenebrae, 3 Songs, Last Round (2007)
- Golijov: Oceana, Tenebrae, 3 Songs (2007)
- The Fountain OST (2006)
- Music by Sculthorpe, Sallinen, Glass, Nancarrow, Hendrix (2005)
- Released 1985-1995 / Unreleased (2005)
- Mugam Sayagi, Music of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (2005)
- U.S. Highball (2003)
- Fourth String Quartet (2003)
- Nuevo (1970)
- Terry Riley: Requiem for Adam (2001)
- Requiem for a Dream / OST (Nonesuch store edition) (1970)
- Kronos Caravan (1970)
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