Kronos Quartet 6-CD package

Six hand-picked CDs from Kronos Quartet spanning over 20 years of musical pioneering. Titles include:

Kronos Quartet performs Philip Glass
A Thousand Thoughts
Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector: Music of Terry Riley
Tundra Songs - Music of Derek Charke
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Green Ground
Folk Songs

Kronos Quartet performs Philip Glass (1995)
The landmark recording, featuring String Quartets 2, 3, 4, and 5.

A Thousand Thoughts (2014)
A Thousand Thoughts is a look at Kronos’ geographically wide-ranging sources. It features music from 14 different countries, including China, India, Sweden, and Vietnam. The album includes the four cellists who have been in Kronos Quartet over the last 36 years: Joan Jeanrenaud (1978–1999), Jennifer Culp (1999–2005), Jeffrey Zeigler (2005–2013), and Sunny Yang (2013–present). Ten of the album’s 15 pieces are previously unreleased.

Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector: Music of Terry Riley (2015)
Originally issued in 1985, this new release includes previously unreleased recordings of Riley's works Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector, One Earth, One People, One Love from Sun Rings, and Lacrymosa - Remembering Kevin.

Tundra Songs - Music of Derek Charke (2015)
Tundra Songs features Kronos Quartet in a trio of works by Canadian composer Derek Charke. Guest artist Tanya Tagaq, the charismatic Polaris Prize-winning Inuit throat singer, appears on the 30-minute title track, which David Harrington, Artistic Director of Kronos, describes as “really one of the major, spectacular pieces that has ever been written for Kronos.” The disc also includes Cercle du Nord III which, like Tundra Songs, incorporates environmental sounds from northern Canada; and four of Charke’s series of Inuit Throat Song Games. All of these pieces were commissioned and premiered by the Kronos Quartet to critical acclaim in North America and Europe.

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Green Ground (2016)
This album presents the world premiere recording of a unique new set of pieces by Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, written and dedicated to his GRAMMY®-winning playmates in the Kronos Quartet and Theatre of Voices with conductor Paul Hillier. Using a text from Henry VIII’s Songbook and taking musical inspiration from the old ‘ground’ technique and from a certain famous Baroque canon, Green Ground offers a kaleidoscopic trip through the enchanting world of PGH, offering independent layers of playful sounds for strings and voices and then merging them together to the accompaniment of wooden percussion instruments.

Folk Songs (2017)
When Nonesuch Records celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2014, with festivals at London's Barbican Centre and New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Kronos Quartet joined forces with four labelmates—Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhiannon Giddens, and Natalie Merchant—to perform a concert entitled Folk Songs. The group later recorded the songs, most of which are traditional with contemporary arrangements, with Doug Petty as the album's producer.