Kronos Quartet Performs Alfred Schnittke: The Complete String Quartets

by Alfred Schnittke / Kronos Quartet

Type: Album
Released: 15 May 1998
Label: Nonesuch
Country: United States
Length: 1:46:28
Community rating: 4.2/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released shortly before the revered Russian composer's death, this monumental recording documents his four profound contributions to the chamber repertoire. The renowned San Francisco-based string ensemble brilliantly interprets Schnittke's polystylistic tendencies, navigating through eerie dissonances, aggressive serialism, and hauntingly mournful elegies with breathtaking technical precision.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, instrumental, atonal, dissonant, strings, chamber, avant-garde, complex

Tracklist

String Quartet No. 1, I. Sonata (7:31)
String Quartet No. 1, II. Canon (3:30)
String Quartet No. 1, III. Cadenza (5:32)
Canon in Memory of Igor Stravinsky (5:21)
String Quartet No. 2, I. Moderato (3:02)
String Quartet No. 2, II. Agitato (5:45)
String Quartet No. 2, III. Mesto (6:41)
String Quartet No. 2, IV. Moderato (6:35)
String Quartet No. 3, I. Andante (5:41)
String Quartet No. 3, II. Agitato (5:43)
String Quartet No. 3, III. Pesante (7:44)
String Quartet No. 4, I. Lento (8:55)
String Quartet No. 4, II. Allegro (7:06)
String Quartet No. 4, III. Lento (5:56)
String Quartet No. 4, IV. Vivace (3:25)
String Quartet No. 4, V. Lento (9:30)
Collected Songs Where Every Verse is Filled with Grief (8:24)

Credits

Kronos Quartet - primary artist, performer
Alfred Schnittke - primary artist, composed by
Joan Jeanrenaud - cello
Hank Dutt - viola
John Sherba - violin