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Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass | 
| Creators: Joan Jeanrenaud, Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet, Hank Dutt, David Harrington, John Sherba
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
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Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 17079
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79356
UPC: 075597935622
EAN: 0075597935622
ASIN: B000005J35
Release Date: February 7, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | String Quartet No.5: I | | • | String Quartet No.5: II | | • | String Quartet No.5: III | | • | String Quartet No.5: IV | | • | String Quartet No.5: V | | • | String Quartet No. 4 (Buczak): 6 - I | | • | String Quartet No. 4 (Buczak): 7 - II | | • | String Quartet No. 4 (Buczak): 8 - III | | • | String Quartet No. 2 (Company): 9 - I | | • | String Quartet No. 2 (Company): 10 - II | | • | String Quartet No. 2 (Company): 11 - III | | • | String Quartet No. 2 (Company): 12 - IV | | • | String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima): 1957: 13 | | • | String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima) (1985): 14 | | • | String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima) (1985): 15 | | • | String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima) (1985): 16 | | • | String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima) (1985): 17 | | • | String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima) (1985): 18 |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Wonderful sound .. simple beauty ! March 8, 2009
W. Todd Penberthy
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This CD has a fantastic thick & gorgeous sound. Highly recommended. It just sounds divine & absolutely wonderful on headphones.
A brilliant piece for the winter months November 17, 2008
Jacqueline Stuart (Burlington, VT)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been a fan of Kronos Quartet since the early 90s. Pieces of Africa, Night Prayers, and Henryk Górecki: Already It Is Dusk (String Quartet No. 1, Op. 62)/ Quasi una Fantasia (String Quartet No. 2, Op. 64) are among my favorite. But Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass, is the most rejoicing, ironically festive and beautifully composed cd by them.
I purchased Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass when it was first released back in February 1995. Up here in Vermont, early February still means the dead of winter. I recall listening to Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass incessantly during that winter season, particularly on my long drives between school, work and home. I certainly still attribute this cd to sunny, but cold winter days, meandering through nameless roads. In fact, I'm not sure I could listen to it during the summer months, because the music itself connotes a wintery landscape--the hurried and ceaseless strings remind me of deer leaping across snow-covered fields. Unlike many of Kronos Quartet's cds that are rather avant garde, Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass is a lovely piece that delivers an unexpectedly light and linear flow throughout its entire audio composition--perfect for the long and dark Vermont winter months.
Mature Glass March 30, 2007
Michael Richards (Berkeley, CA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am befuddled by the negative reviews of this recording, just as I am befuddled by those who dismiss Glass, Reich and their peers as "Minimalists" as if their development had ended where it started. Both Reich and Glass are now mature and accomplished composers who have transformed the radical ideas of their youth into a rich and unique compositional language.
On this recording, Kronos show us just how involving and nuanced Glass's "repetitive" language can be. The Quartet #5 in particular is a masterpiece. Perhaps my favorite Glass composition. It is chock full of wonderful melodic and rhythmic ideas. Yes, the rhythmic and harmonic backdrop consists of relentless diatonic arpeggios, but the continual harmonic and dynamic modulations pull the listener along like a raft floating down a roiling river. Kronos renders the music with impeccable accuracy while filling every phrase with humanity and passion. Wonderful.
I give it 4 starts rather than 5 because the CD sound quality is good, but not excellent, and I don't find quartets 2 and 3 as utterly delightful as 4 and 5.
Enlightening October 30, 2005
Nicolas Raddatz (Montevideo, Uruguay)
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
This album was my first approach to a minimalist composer, and I didn't exactly know what to expect. The first time I heard it I felt enlightened. I just had couldn't stop listening this piece of music. Beautiful, trancey, ethereal.
If you are looking for standard western classical music, with a strong sense of progression towards that "extacy" moment, you could feel dissapointed. But then again, if you want that...why get a minimalist composer's work?
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