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    Yesterday I listened to a concert by the Kronos Quartet. It was a piece composed by a contemporanean Finnish composer. "Sallinen's String Quartet No. 5 was completed in 1983 on the initiative of the Helsinki Festival, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival and the celebrated American... more

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  • Rated by Snegoratchka on Aug 11, 2:58pm

    Someday, I'll see these guys in concert.

  • Rated by bboychuk on Oct 10 2008, 10:46am

    Not a fan of much avant-garde music, but I love these guys. Particularly the Thelonious Monk album.

  • Rated by chelx on Feb 19 2008, 7:23pm

    My favorite contemporary Avant-garde Quartet

  • Rated by caravia on May 15 2007, 2:47am

    Yesterday I listened to a concert by the Kronos Quartet. It was a piece composed by a contemporanean Finnish composer. "Sallinen's String Quartet No. 5 was completed in 1983 on the initiative of the Helsinki Festival, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival and the celebrated American ensemble, the Kronos Quartet, who duly arrived in Kuhmo in the summer of 1984 to give the work its first performance. The name "Pieces of Mosaic" points towards the quartet's unusual structure. The work is made up of 16 small sections or `pieces', between which there are sometimes close links, sometimes no connections whatsoever, The composer has himself commented that the quartet has exactly the sort of form that the modern world deserves. As Sallinen has pondered on the disintegrating world around him, so his quartet has shattered into small pieces. It is worth mentioning that the idea of mosaics has run on -- admittedly in a different form -- into Sallinen's 5th Symphony composed a few years later, entitled "Washington Mosaics". In both quartet and symphony there are signs of the composer's moving around to distinctly new stylistic directions."

  • Rated by susanjean on Jan 08 2007, 6:38pm

    really gorgeous work

  • Rated by Weett on Apr 11 2006, 10:21am

    The always innovative string ensemble KRONOS QUARTET currently performing at CARNEGIE HALL NYC with ASHA BHOSLE(http://www.worldmusic.net/home/features/asha.html)

  • Rated by katmoonblue on Apr 03 2006, 4:49pm

    chek out the bollywood preview

  • Reviewed by HorseTamer on Sep 11 2005, 10:04pm

    They have never rested on either their laurels or their way to the listenable frontiers of string music.

  • Rated by chaimke on Mar 21 2005, 5:24am

    Great music!