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No Description Available.Genre: Classical MusicMedia Format: Compact DiskRating: Release Date: 3-JUL-1990
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The title to Kronos's most bleak album comes from a nearly 20-minute-long composition by American composer George Crumb that unfolds over 13 distinct parts. That ominous number only hints at the horror Crumb intended as an ode to the Vietnam War. War informs the whole CD: Shostakovich's Quartet No. 8, composed near the height of the Cold War, in 1960, was dedicated "to the victims of fascism and war". Doom. A Sigh, by Istvan Marta, incorporates field recordings of two Romanian women singing personal laments of fallen friends and relatives; their grief is so intense as to render listening incredibly difficult. The original text to 16th-century composer Thomas Tallis's Spem in Alium (originally a 40-voice motet) recalled a biblical battle. And late American composer Charles Ives is heard singing (yes, singing) They Are There!--a ditty he wrote during the Great War and revisited for World War II; he's joined here by the Kronos, half a century after his death, in an act of studio magic that is ingenious if not musically stimulating. --Marc Weidenbaum
Reviews:
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Great music.
4.0 out of 5 stars Alarm and unease
As a billionaire bigot who thinks climate change is a hoax enters the Whitehouse, this is the perfect soundtrack to the riots and accelerationism that will hopefully make people seriously doubt the sustainability of capitalism. Beautifully played by the Kronos Quartet, Black Angels embodies the alarm and unease of our plundering species, still locked into the idiocy of the capitalist project of "infinite growth" on a planet of finite resources.
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Happy customer!
2.0 out of 5 stars Good - but you can get better
The Kronos Quartet are, of course, a class act. But their's isn't the best version of "Black Angels" you can buy. I'd heard the piece live, and been stirred by it's mad world of horror and reconciliation. But I didn't find that on this disc - which smoothes out and normalises what should be extreme.For less money you can buy the Cikada Quartet version on Cala, which I much prefer. Or, of course, you could get both, compare them, and see if you agree with me.
4.0 out of 5 stars stunning anti-war string quartets
"Black Angels," the amazing string quartet written by George Crumb in 1970 in response to the Vietnam War, is what inspired the formation of the Kronos Quartet. They set it to disc in 1990, and unfortunately it has remained a timely testament to the ongoing terror and tragedy of war. According to Crumb, "[t]he work portrays a voyage of the soul. The three stages of this voyage are Departure (fall from grace), Absence (spiritual annihilation) and Return (redemption)." It is a resolutely modern work, not the sort of thing Haydn would ever have expected. The opening is called "Night of the Electric Insects," and that gives you an idea. Absolutely brilliant"Black Angels" is 18 minutes long, and opens the disc, and Shostakovich's 8th quartet, at 20 minutes, is the closer. Kronos gives a hard-edged reading of the famous piece, dedicated to "the victims of war and fascism." It is strongest in the louder, faster sections, and not quite as effective in the slower sections, where the Borodin Quartet conveys more feeling, more poignancy (see my review of their 1990 recording of DSCH quartets 2, 3, 7, 8, 10 & 12). A fine performance, though, of a 20th century classic.Unfortunately I don't have much good to say about the three shorter pieces in between. I've listened to this disc many times now, and I am just not won over by the Tallis, Marta or Ives. It's fun to hear a hoarse Charlie Ives shouting and ranting about the soldiers "Fighting for the People's New Free World," but it reminds you that he was probably a manic-depressive, and you want to tell him to take his medicine. Other than checking in now and then to see if these 3 have grown on me, I typically play either "Black Angels" or the 8th as stand-alone works, and so the 4 stars reflects the fact that the disc as a whole is less than satisfying.
Dark side of Kronos
Another stunning gem from Kronos. The first cut, Crumb's Black Angels quartet, will raise every hair on your body. Don't make the mistake I made and pop it into the car player (I couldn't leave the parking lot until that first cut had finished). This is music that challenges and then rewards the listener. As usual with Kronos, flawless technique and marvelous imagination of interpretation.
Quel CHOC !
Cet album a été enregistré par le Kronos Quartet en 1990 et bien que possédant déjà une quinzaine d'albums de ce formidable quartet, je ne l'avais jamais entendu. Je ne répéterai pas les analyses détaillées et argumentées que l'on peut lire sur le site d'Bolo pour les USA, en particulier celles de Vargiu Riccardo James et de David J. Huber. Je dirai uniquement : "QUEL CHOC !". L'ensemble de cet album est magnifique et absolument bouleversant. J'ai rarement entendu une musique exprimant autant la tristesse que "Doom.A Sigh" de Istvan Marta, écrite à partir d'enregistrements réalisés par lui en 1973 dans une communauté hongroise de Roumanie. Et cet album offre même un enregistrement du grand Charles Ives, chantant et jouant du piano en 1942.
Some more Sighs...
Das 1973 gegründete Kronos Quartet bemüht sich insbesondere um die Pflege zeitgenössischer Kammermusik. Mit ihrem Repertoire, das von Barockmusik bis hin zu Grenzgängen zwischen Klassik und anderen Musikrichtungen rangiert, sind die vier unerreicht. Etliche Musikstücke wurden eigens für dieses Ensemble komponiert oder arrangiert. Die vorliegende CD in bester Aufnahmequalität bietet einen gelungenen ersten Einblick in das Schaffen dieses bedeutenden Quartetts.Das konventionellste Stück dieser Sammlung ist ohne Frage Dmitri Shostakovichs (1906-1975) achtes Streichquartett in c moll op. 110. Es ist den Opfern des Faschismus' und des Zweiten Weltkrieges gewidmet und eröffnet mit einem zutiefst traurigen Largo. Wut und Verzweiflung verleiht der Russe im zweiten Satz Ausdruck, um schließlich einige Bilder des Leids zu imaginieren.Fordernd, flott und zwingend bietet das Kronos Quartet dieses verhältnismäßig häufig aufgeführte Stück dar. Mit straffer Akzentuierung und einfühlsamer Intensität entwerfen sie ein beklemmendes Schreckensgemälde des Zweiten Weltkrieges und übertreffen in ihrer Darbietung populärere Einspielungen mühelos.Aus dem Jahre 1970 stammt George Crumbs (*1970) Komposition für elektrisches Streichquartett "Black Angels - Thirteen Images from the Dark Land", das vom Vietnam Krieg inspiriert wurde. Das Werk ist in drei Teile geteilt, "Departure", "Absence" und "Return". Durchzogen wird das Stück durch eine schreiende, Angst einflößende Threnodie, die das Stück auch rahmt. "Devil Music", "Danse macabre" und eine Sarabande sind andere Bestandteile dieses intensiven Werkes, das den Hörer so schnell nicht mehr los lässt.Und das nicht zuletzt wegen der ausgezeichneten, technisch brillanten Darbietung des Kronos Quartets. Die elektrisierende Atmosphäre dieser Komposition stellen die Mitglieder in eindrucksvoller Art und Weise dar.Die 40stimmige Motette "Spem in alium" des barocken britischen Komponisten Thomas Tallis (ca. 1505-1585) liegt hier in einem entrückenden, tiefsinnigen und berührenden Arrangement für Streichquartett vor. Die Tiefschichtigkeit der Komposition transkribierte das Kronos Quartet selbst in meisterlicher Manier.Aus dem Jahre 1989 hingegen stammt das Werk "Doom. A Sigh" des ungarischen Komponisten Istvan Marta (*1952). Derselbe nahm in einem archaischen ungarischen Dorf zwei von den Einwohnern gesungene Lieder auf, deren herzzerreißender Unterton durch ein elektrisches Ensemble und die Stimmen des Streichquartetts untermalt werden. Da im Booklet die Entstehungsgeschichte der einzelnen Stücke näher erläutert ist, fühlt man sich beim Hören dieses Arrangements zutiefst gerührt.Das wohl interessanteste Werk dieser Anthologie ist das Arrangement von Charles Ives' (1874-1954) Klavierlied "They are there! - Fighting for the People's New Free World". Eine alte Aufnahme dieses Liedes wird durch das Kronos Quartet verstärkt, und das in derart dezenter Art und Weise, dass die Akteure ihre Verehrung für einen der bedeutendsten amerikanischen Komponisten treffend zum Ausdruck bringen.Fazit: Musik, die einen so schnell nicht mehr loskommen lässt - nicht nur für Freunde musikalischer Grenzgänge eine Bereicherung!
Phantastische Musik
Diese Musik ist nicht einfach, aber sehr ergreifend. Ich hatte das Glück, vorher ein Live-Konzert zu erleben. Die Musik wird nur verständlich, wenn man sich klar macht, dass George Crumb damit seine Erfahrungen im Vietnam-Krieg verarbeitet hat.
Too much acid.
I guess I did not research this album enough.I became aware of this band when they were backing Roky Erickson.I will check out another album because this is a mess.
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No Description Available.Genre: Classical MusicMedia Format: Compact DiskRating: Release Date: 3-JUL-1990
Amazon.co.uk
The title to Kronos's most bleak album comes from a nearly 20-minute-long composition by American composer George Crumb that unfolds over 13 distinct parts. That ominous number only hints at the horror Crumb intended as an ode to the Vietnam War. War informs the whole CD: Shostakovich's Quartet No. 8, composed near the height of the Cold War, in 1960, was dedicated "to the victims of fascism and war". Doom. A Sigh, by Istvan Marta, incorporates field recordings of two Romanian women singing personal laments of fallen friends and relatives; their grief is so intense as to render listening incredibly difficult. The original text to 16th-century composer Thomas Tallis's Spem in Alium (originally a 40-voice motet) recalled a biblical battle. And late American composer Charles Ives is heard singing (yes, singing) They Are There!--a ditty he wrote during the Great War and revisited for World War II; he's joined here by the Kronos, half a century after his death, in an act of studio magic that is ingenious if not musically stimulating. --Marc Weidenbaum
Reviews:
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Great music.
4.0 out of 5 stars Alarm and unease
As a billionaire bigot who thinks climate change is a hoax enters the Whitehouse, this is the perfect soundtrack to the riots and accelerationism that will hopefully make people seriously doubt the sustainability of capitalism. Beautifully played by the Kronos Quartet, Black Angels embodies the alarm and unease of our plundering species, still locked into the idiocy of the capitalist project of "infinite growth" on a planet of finite resources.
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Happy customer!
2.0 out of 5 stars Good - but you can get better
The Kronos Quartet are, of course, a class act. But their's isn't the best version of "Black Angels" you can buy. I'd heard the piece live, and been stirred by it's mad world of horror and reconciliation. But I didn't find that on this disc - which smoothes out and normalises what should be extreme.For less money you can buy the Cikada Quartet version on Cala, which I much prefer. Or, of course, you could get both, compare them, and see if you agree with me.
4.0 out of 5 stars stunning anti-war string quartets
"Black Angels," the amazing string quartet written by George Crumb in 1970 in response to the Vietnam War, is what inspired the formation of the Kronos Quartet. They set it to disc in 1990, and unfortunately it has remained a timely testament to the ongoing terror and tragedy of war. According to Crumb, "[t]he work portrays a voyage of the soul. The three stages of this voyage are Departure (fall from grace), Absence (spiritual annihilation) and Return (redemption)." It is a resolutely modern work, not the sort of thing Haydn would ever have expected. The opening is called "Night of the Electric Insects," and that gives you an idea. Absolutely brilliant"Black Angels" is 18 minutes long, and opens the disc, and Shostakovich's 8th quartet, at 20 minutes, is the closer. Kronos gives a hard-edged reading of the famous piece, dedicated to "the victims of war and fascism." It is strongest in the louder, faster sections, and not quite as effective in the slower sections, where the Borodin Quartet conveys more feeling, more poignancy (see my review of their 1990 recording of DSCH quartets 2, 3, 7, 8, 10 & 12). A fine performance, though, of a 20th century classic.Unfortunately I don't have much good to say about the three shorter pieces in between. I've listened to this disc many times now, and I am just not won over by the Tallis, Marta or Ives. It's fun to hear a hoarse Charlie Ives shouting and ranting about the soldiers "Fighting for the People's New Free World," but it reminds you that he was probably a manic-depressive, and you want to tell him to take his medicine. Other than checking in now and then to see if these 3 have grown on me, I typically play either "Black Angels" or the 8th as stand-alone works, and so the 4 stars reflects the fact that the disc as a whole is less than satisfying.
Dark side of Kronos
Another stunning gem from Kronos. The first cut, Crumb's Black Angels quartet, will raise every hair on your body. Don't make the mistake I made and pop it into the car player (I couldn't leave the parking lot until that first cut had finished). This is music that challenges and then rewards the listener. As usual with Kronos, flawless technique and marvelous imagination of interpretation.
Quel CHOC !
Cet album a été enregistré par le Kronos Quartet en 1990 et bien que possédant déjà une quinzaine d'albums de ce formidable quartet, je ne l'avais jamais entendu. Je ne répéterai pas les analyses détaillées et argumentées que l'on peut lire sur le site d'Bolo pour les USA, en particulier celles de Vargiu Riccardo James et de David J. Huber. Je dirai uniquement : "QUEL CHOC !". L'ensemble de cet album est magnifique et absolument bouleversant. J'ai rarement entendu une musique exprimant autant la tristesse que "Doom.A Sigh" de Istvan Marta, écrite à partir d'enregistrements réalisés par lui en 1973 dans une communauté hongroise de Roumanie. Et cet album offre même un enregistrement du grand Charles Ives, chantant et jouant du piano en 1942.
Some more Sighs...
Das 1973 gegründete Kronos Quartet bemüht sich insbesondere um die Pflege zeitgenössischer Kammermusik. Mit ihrem Repertoire, das von Barockmusik bis hin zu Grenzgängen zwischen Klassik und anderen Musikrichtungen rangiert, sind die vier unerreicht. Etliche Musikstücke wurden eigens für dieses Ensemble komponiert oder arrangiert. Die vorliegende CD in bester Aufnahmequalität bietet einen gelungenen ersten Einblick in das Schaffen dieses bedeutenden Quartetts.Das konventionellste Stück dieser Sammlung ist ohne Frage Dmitri Shostakovichs (1906-1975) achtes Streichquartett in c moll op. 110. Es ist den Opfern des Faschismus' und des Zweiten Weltkrieges gewidmet und eröffnet mit einem zutiefst traurigen Largo. Wut und Verzweiflung verleiht der Russe im zweiten Satz Ausdruck, um schließlich einige Bilder des Leids zu imaginieren.Fordernd, flott und zwingend bietet das Kronos Quartet dieses verhältnismäßig häufig aufgeführte Stück dar. Mit straffer Akzentuierung und einfühlsamer Intensität entwerfen sie ein beklemmendes Schreckensgemälde des Zweiten Weltkrieges und übertreffen in ihrer Darbietung populärere Einspielungen mühelos.Aus dem Jahre 1970 stammt George Crumbs (*1970) Komposition für elektrisches Streichquartett "Black Angels - Thirteen Images from the Dark Land", das vom Vietnam Krieg inspiriert wurde. Das Werk ist in drei Teile geteilt, "Departure", "Absence" und "Return". Durchzogen wird das Stück durch eine schreiende, Angst einflößende Threnodie, die das Stück auch rahmt. "Devil Music", "Danse macabre" und eine Sarabande sind andere Bestandteile dieses intensiven Werkes, das den Hörer so schnell nicht mehr los lässt.Und das nicht zuletzt wegen der ausgezeichneten, technisch brillanten Darbietung des Kronos Quartets. Die elektrisierende Atmosphäre dieser Komposition stellen die Mitglieder in eindrucksvoller Art und Weise dar.Die 40stimmige Motette "Spem in alium" des barocken britischen Komponisten Thomas Tallis (ca. 1505-1585) liegt hier in einem entrückenden, tiefsinnigen und berührenden Arrangement für Streichquartett vor. Die Tiefschichtigkeit der Komposition transkribierte das Kronos Quartet selbst in meisterlicher Manier.Aus dem Jahre 1989 hingegen stammt das Werk "Doom. A Sigh" des ungarischen Komponisten Istvan Marta (*1952). Derselbe nahm in einem archaischen ungarischen Dorf zwei von den Einwohnern gesungene Lieder auf, deren herzzerreißender Unterton durch ein elektrisches Ensemble und die Stimmen des Streichquartetts untermalt werden. Da im Booklet die Entstehungsgeschichte der einzelnen Stücke näher erläutert ist, fühlt man sich beim Hören dieses Arrangements zutiefst gerührt.Das wohl interessanteste Werk dieser Anthologie ist das Arrangement von Charles Ives' (1874-1954) Klavierlied "They are there! - Fighting for the People's New Free World". Eine alte Aufnahme dieses Liedes wird durch das Kronos Quartet verstärkt, und das in derart dezenter Art und Weise, dass die Akteure ihre Verehrung für einen der bedeutendsten amerikanischen Komponisten treffend zum Ausdruck bringen.Fazit: Musik, die einen so schnell nicht mehr loskommen lässt - nicht nur für Freunde musikalischer Grenzgänge eine Bereicherung!
Phantastische Musik
Diese Musik ist nicht einfach, aber sehr ergreifend. Ich hatte das Glück, vorher ein Live-Konzert zu erleben. Die Musik wird nur verständlich, wenn man sich klar macht, dass George Crumb damit seine Erfahrungen im Vietnam-Krieg verarbeitet hat.
Too much acid.
I guess I did not research this album enough.I became aware of this band when they were backing Roky Erickson.I will check out another album because this is a mess.
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