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The Kronos Quartet 25 Years [10 CD box set] 1998
The Kronos Quartet focuses on the more, shall we call it "post-avantgardish" composers. Thus Kronos has, in addition to playing and commissioning music by leading contemporary composers and then in particular those associated with minimalism, made forays into world- and non-western (and even pop) music.
The last, 10th disc represents the most non-Western based music in the set, with Sculthorpe's take on Australian Aboriginal music (complete with didjeridoos - without sounding at all gimmicky - in `From Ubirr' ), a short piece from P.Q. Phan and the South-African Kevin Volans' already classic first string quartet `White Man Sleeps' - also possibly deserving the epithet `masterpiece'.
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