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Kronos Quartet is an American music group formed in Seattle in 1973. It is on the ANTI- label, and its first album was Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk (1985).
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- Dracula (1999)
- Formed
- 1973 · Seattle
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- ANTI-
About — The artist
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.
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Discography
- Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk 1985
- Cadenza on the Night Plain 1985
- Music by Sculthorpe, Sallinen, Glass, Nancarrow, and Hendrix 1986
- Music of Bill Evans 1986
- White Man Sleeps 1987
- Winter Was Hard 1988
- Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint 1989
- Salome Dances for Peace 1989
- In Formation 1990
- Black Angels 1990
- Advent / Crisis & Overcoming / Transmutation 1991
- Already It Is Dusk / ''Lerchenmusik'' 1991
- String Quartet 1991
- Pieces of Africa 1992
- Piano and Strings Quartet 1993
- Du Cristal / …À La Fumée / Nymphéa 1993
- Short Stories 1993
- String Quartet no. 1, op. 62 "Already It Is Dusk" / String Quartet no. 2, op. 64 "Quasi una fantasia" 1993
- At the Grave of Richard Wagner 1993
- Piano and String Quartet 1993
- Night Prayers 1994
- Kronos Quartet performs Philip Glass 1995
- Howl, U.S.A. 1996
- The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind 1997
- Ghost Opera 1997
- The Complete Landmark Sessions 1997
- Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ) 1997
- Gnarly Buttons / John's Book of Alleged Dances 1998
- The Complete String Quartets 1998
- Dracula 1999