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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 sixth disc presents Henryk Gorecki's (then) two quartets, strident and rather abrasive pieces that would serve as a refreshing anti-dote to anyone who has experienced his famous elegiac third symphony (zie eerdere post).