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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 - in particular those associated with minimalism - made forays into world- and non-western (and even pop) music.
This second disc consists of music by Ken Benshoof (the `Traveling Music', probably included because it was the Kronos' first commissioned piece, and the far more interesting, later Song of Twenty Shadows) and Astor Piazzolla - in the latter case his 5 Tango Sensations, probably worthwhile for those who generally warm to his music, and the short, aggressive Four, for tango, which is fascinating even to those who don't.