Kronos Quartet – Black Angels
€38.90
Kronos Quartet – Black Angels
Format:LP
Genre: Classical
Label: Nonesuch
Black Angels is a 1990 album by the string quartet Kronos Quartet. It includes, and was named after, George Crumb’s 1970 composition Black Angels, the composition which had inspired David Harrington to found the Kronos Quartet in 1973.
Stylishly packaged, intelligently programmed, superbly recorded and brilliantly performed. In short, very much the sort of disc we’ve come to expect from the talented and imaginative Kronos Quartet. With an overall theme of war and persecution linking the works, the disc opens with George Crumb’s Black Angels for electric string quartet; a vividly descriptive work inspired by the Vietnam war… An intense, poignant account of Shostakovich’s Eighth String Quartet (a work dedicated to the victims of Fascism and war) brings this unusual and thought-provoking recital to a fitting conclusion.
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Kronos Quartet – Black Angels
€38.90