Kronos Quartet: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2013
- Sunny Yang joined Kronos Quartet in June 2013. Now, just five months later, the cellist she says she's learned quite a few new works - not just a handful, but about 70 pieces.
That degree of dedication to contemporary composers, coupled with an insane concert schedule, has propelled Kronos Quartet forward over the past four decades. If they wanted, the musicians - who also include founder David Harrington and longtime members John Sherba and Hank Dutt - could reminisce over more than 800 new works and arrangements they've commissioned in 40 years. But instead, the new-music train pushes ever onward to new territories. They remain a living, breathing world-heritage site for music.
Now in the midst of its 40th-anniversary tour, Kronos brings to this Tiny Desk Concert a new arrangement, a work from a new album and, for Kronos, something of a chestnut, a piece the group recorded a whopping five years ago.
Aheym (Yiddish for "homeward") was written for Kronos by Bryce Dessner; a member of the Brooklyn rock band The National, he studied composition at Yale. The music thrives on nervous energy, pulsating with strumming and spiccato (bouncing the bow on strings) while building to a tremendous fever. It also opens Kronos' new album of Dessner works.
"Lullaby," a traditional song with Afro-Persian roots (from the group's Eastern-flavored 2009 album Floodplain), is woven from different cloth altogether. Colorful tones that lay between our Western pitches are threaded through the music, anchored by a gorgeous solo from violist Dutt; his contribution takes on the warm and weathered sound of a grandmother singing to a child.
Kronos caps off the concert with another hairpin turn, this time to a fresh arrangement of "Last Kind Words," a little-known blues song from around 1930, recorded by singer and guitarist Geeshie Wiley. In Jacob Garchik's exuberant arrangement (which Kronos premiered this fall), interlocking strums and plucks provide a kind of rhythm section, while Harrington's violin stands in for the now-forgotten blues singer. --TOM HUIZENGA
Set List
"Aheym"
"Lullaby"
"Last Kind Words"
Kronos Quartet
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Sunny Yang, cello
Credits
Producers: Denise DeBelius, Tom Huizenga, Anastasia Tsioulcas; Editor: Gabriella Garcia-Pardo; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Videographers: Denise DeBelius, Becky Harlan, Abbey Oldham, Meredith Rizzo 
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The first 9 and a half minutes is unbelievable, and definitely worth a listen.
these incredible musicians have been at the forefront of musical innovation for over 35 years! thank you Kronos quartet for your constant effort to explore new musical frontiers and for providing us with performances like this one!! love and respect
Love this performance, especially the powerful intro. The world needs Kronos Quartet.
The cello is mind blowing!!!
Maybe that's why they go through so many cellists...
(FOOM... Dangit lost another one...)
There always is someone to make negative comments and spoil the atmosphere!
I love what this quartet stands for! I love how they play new modern works too freshen up classical's music pool and I absolutely adore the new cellist!
Watching this made me enter in some sort of mind trip... nice
Just saw them play last night in RI at a benefit fund raiser for medical expenses for John Sherba's brother Charles (concertmaster of the RI Philharmonic.) They were outstanding. What energy!
That's some hardcore hocketing in the first piece.
Wow! I've seen a few of these concerts but I think this one tops them all. What energy. Thank you.
Tiny Desk: Please upload more contemporary classical music like the great Kronos quartet.
i keep coming back to this, what a gem
This blew my mind when I finally saw them live! They played it so well but the composer is the master mind behind it. Thanks for posting this. I was kicking myself in the butt for not getting a video of them playing
They're all so brilliant!
When I listen to this when I’m anxious it helps for some weird reason.
I'm reading these comments, and I'm not sure what some of you were expecting from them. They're perfection in my view. I would love to see them live.
This may be one the best performances I have seen in a long, long time.
Oh, I agree with you Reuben!
absolutely amazing performance!!!
Fantastic performance - incredible muscians. very exciting.
Kronos Quartet es mi orquesta de cámara favorita desde 1985, cuando los conocí tocando a Thelonius Monk. Son lo máximo.
This is my first listen to this group. I am flabbergasted. So thrilled that NPR presented your talents to all of us to enjoy. I think i have just found my new favorite group. Now i have to do some research to see if ya'll are coming to Louisville, KY. I hope you have a website. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
they have so much amazing stuff, happy hunting!
Your life will be changed for good that's for sure!
I was introduced through the movies of aronofsky but they're recognisable through the strongbow cider adverts and especially TV talent shows
My gf is into an even harder score quartet that do medieval action movies they're very recognisable too
they created an universe of great music
I LOVE THIS GROUP.They are always Amazing.All the time suprised me.What a nice tone,what a nice song !!! Sooooooooooo goooooooood
W0W! I can't imagine trying to read that sheet music and keeping time! A one and a...
love these guys, i really find them inspirational
I have discovered something which my soul loves! This is a wonderful performance, the first piece blew me away, amazing!
They are amazing, and please come back to Colombia soon.
They are great artists. I love them!
Metal af
Great stuff! I especially like the sound of the unusually strung violin in the last two pieces, which appears to have two D strings and two A strings.
That really looks like a LOT of fun
I flew down to Atlanta to see them a few years ago (A. Never been to Atlanta B. Always wanted to see Kronos) - it was absolutely an audial experience. I can really appreciate the zero editting in this (other than perhaps balancing, there are a few mistakes in this from the studio recording) - yes, they are that good!
There is something so blissful when the cello comes in at 1:15, and then again later with the viola in harmony.
Oh, i stumbled upon the Golijov CD with David Krakauer and was looking for "more": found this: GREAT! Thanks!
Pure heavy metal. Great performance.
Bravo - Sounds amazing!
best rock'n'roll band, of all classical musicians!!
This is huge! Bravo guys!
Thrilling!!!
Wonderful! I am a sucker for string music of all genres, but Kronos is always doing odd & beautiful stuff. Bravisimo!
(And Geeshie Wiley is less forgotten than you might think. She came to the awareness of most through the R Crumb biopic/documentary. There is also a recent New York Times Magazine article about her & musical partner Elvie Thomas. The original, crackly 78 version is haunted, haunting, and a great (obscured by unfamiliar language) piece of story telling)
So Good!
so intense great stuff I love it
I love very much Kronos Quartet!
Breathless.
Spectacular. Bryce Dessner is such a brilliant composer. Love it.
Yeah I can hear the national in there
Kronos Quartet - touching the Absolute.
jesus christ what a sound.
That. Was. Amazing.
...listening here to a conversation
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...xxxxx...
The epik amazing!!!
Oh, my...
THIS IS SO SICK!!!!!!! wow.
Pure excellence!
Hermoso, muchas gracias por compartir esta bella musica / Beautiful, thank you very much for sharing this beautiful music.
Love.
fantastico, hermoso, la musica.
buenísimo!
They. Rock.
5.20 sounds like Autechre
Amazing! I saw them a month or so before this, in Vancouver premiering Philip Glass's new quartet. It was a revelation. They did things I didn't know you could do with music.
They did Lullaby and Last Kind Words at that show too.
Antonio Giuseppe Vivaldi would find kindred spirits with these 4 amazing players. This is my first encounter with Kronos and my goodness they have taken my breath away. To have one virtuoso musician in a room, is remarkable, but to have 4 virtuoso musicians is from another galaxy.
I feel fancy being familiar with that Last Kind Words tune... it appears on the American Primitive collection Vol. II
A dynamic performance by the premier "New Music" Kronos String Quartet!
Geez these guys are good.
Willow D'Arcy Amazing teachers as well! Had a masterclass with these guys and I learned so much.
Geez these guys and the gal are good. Duh.
That viola!
wow
stunnin'
They have a great album with Alejandro Flores. Just search "El llorar" by Kronos Quartet.
I discovered them on Black Angels and thus far Nuevo is my favorite album by them and llorar is one if my favorite tracks!
nice!
Last Kind Words at about 15: GW early recording available on this site.
Eegads. I haven't seen anything like this since back in 1982, playing Dark Side of the Moon on the Hi Fi to The Wizard of Oz on a new-fangled VCR with the TV's sound off. Check out this with performance with "The Lone Ranger - S01 E05: Rustler's Hideout (1949)" muted. Seriously. Wait a minute. Actually, this performance syncs perfectly with ALL the Lone Ranger Episode. It's uncanny...
We clearly see a masterpiecefully playing of a masterpiece in the first piece.
The way the second violinist is pizzicatoing in the last piece is downright hilarious.
My fave KQ track is Chavosuite. Wish they played it.
riveting….
Beauty.
they r greaat
now thats creativity.
I love this group! They don’t play the derivate pieces everyone plays
Why can't I find "Last Kind Words" on iTunes...? So sad.
The Kronos quartet is famous for promoting and premiering a great deal of modern music, some of it more or less successful than others. You can't win them all.
This is what happens when Masters at their art , go into free flow !
this goes so fkin hard
how come David's violin sounds so chorusy?? i don't notice any effects!
It looks like all the strings are tuned down about a 5th. He's playing an "A" on the top string instead of the "E" a 5th above that it usually is.
It's also the way he bows. He bows hard, and a lot of his tone is in the bowing hand rather than vibrato or whatever on his other hand. Scraping the strings like he does produces all sorts of wonderful harmonics.
The new cellist is great, but I really miss Jeanrenaud. She was fucking wild.
ok how did that violinist get that chorus sound on the second song, someone educate me. Does he have his strings tuned something like DDAA?
:) Kronos keep on keepin on
So they rocked the foundation of the NPR building, Im sure.
I'm in love with this music and the cellist.
Great Scott like this one. For I am Great Scott 😂❤
esses véio são foda demais
I love the way they take you away with their music
Last first may had had more listeners finishing the session.
Not everybody lived through a POW-Camp or the diaspora and being able seeing the sun come up again where it all began once again
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holy camole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ja mais ! J'ai reconnu le Frantzi Alsacien 🇮🇩, c'est un luthier et ancien pote, du début de notre vie d'adultes....... Maintenant nous allons sur 65 ans........ 😂😂😂
3:28
Why are violinists/cellists compelled to strike their notes w/ jittery head movements and such? The beginning around 0:33 looks like stop-motion photography.
+Kody D Performing music is a whole body experience. You can't move one part of your body without the other following sometimes.
+Kody D www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/22/arts/music/kronos-quartet.html
The instruments thunder like a choir of angry angles, pronouncing judgement on the lesser music of today!
If you enjoy this you might like the compositions of Georg Friedrich Haas too!
Holly smokes!
Pithy. Generous. Beauty.
holy jesus christ
this is fuckinn pengggg m8