Mar 02, 2010  Find release reviews and credits for Black Angels - Kronos Quartet on AllMusic - 2010 - This disc is supposed to hurt. Digital Download. Submit Corrections. Kronos Quartet Black Angels (Digital Download - Nonesuch #). Fighting for the People's New Free World. Charles Ives. Kronos Quartet.

A Thousand Thoughts, a live documentary with the Kronos Quartet, written and directed by filmmakers Sam Green and Joe Bini—which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018 and has been performed around the world—will continue to tour the US in the coming weeks and months: in Urbana, Nashville, Austin, Detroit, and New York City. The multimedia performance piece blends live music and narration with archival footage and filmed interviews to tell Kronos's story. 'It's as magical an amalgamation as you can imagine,' exclaims the Los Angeles Times. Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector: Music of Terry Riley, released in honor of the composer's 80th birthday, includes a new recording of the title piece, one of Kronos and Riley’s first collaborations, as well as a previously unreleased recording of Lacrymosa – Remembering Kevin and Cry of a Lady (originally released on A Thousand Thoughts) and G Song and Cadenza on the Night Plain (both originally released on 25 Years). Pitchfork says the album is 'a necessary addition to the catalog,' calling the new recording of the title track 'a marvel.'

This disc is supposed to hurt. Just look at the program: it starts with 's Black Angels for electric string quartet, a work that is the aural equivalent of Coppola's Apocalypse Now, and ends with 's String Quartet No. 8, a work that is either the aural equivalent of a monument to the victims of war and fascism written in the ruins of Dresden or the musical equivalent of a suicide note written before the composer joined the Communist Party. With the spooky and evocative performances of Spem in Alium, 's Doom. A Sigh, and ' There They Are!, this disc is so painful it could be the soundtrack for an unmade Kubrick movie.

The question is, is this disc supposed to hurt so much? The is a harsh and aggressive ensemble with an angular approach to rhythm and structure and an overwhelming need to assert its individual and collective identity. It tears into the howling notes that begin Black Angels with the ferocity of The Furies and they don't take the pedal off the metal until the last gasp of the final Largo of the Eighth.

Yet surely this is the intent of the music: 's Black Angels is as violently anti-war as 's Eighth is fatally anti-totalitarian, and any performance that doesn't hurt with the deep pain of righteous vehemence would hardly be worth hearing. Blanki zapisi shahmatnih partij van. Nonesuch's 1990 digital sound is so in your face that it's in your skull.