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- From: ns14@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Nathan Otto Siemers)
- Subject: Re: Quartet #8 by Kronos :Good, Bad or Ugly?
- In-Reply-To: davidu@space.mit.edu's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:11:08 GMT
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:33:10
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- >>>>> On Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:11:08 GMT, davidu@space.mit.edu (David T
- David> S Um) said: Nntp-Posting-Host: logos.mit.edu
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- David> Hello,
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- David> I am the DSCH novice who is soliciting recommendations from
- David> this newsgroup. I have received many enthusiastic suggestions
- David> to listen to the 8th Quartet. In fact, "enthusiastic" is
- David> perhaps the understatement of the year. Anyway, if I may dare
- David> to utter taboo names, how is the Kronos Quartet version of the
- David> 8th, which I believe is on their "Black Angels" CD? I ordered
- David> this disc through the mail just before I subscribed to a.f.s.,
- David> but it has not yet arrived. Since I have been castigated for
- David> my choice of Karajan's performance of DSCH's 10th, I would
- David> like to make sure that the Kronos performance is orthodox with
- David> the veterans of this newsgroup. So, as the title implies, is
- David> the Kronos good, bad or
- David> not-fit-to-be-wiped-off-with-toilet-paper? And by the way, do
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- The Kronos performance turned me from being simply interested
- in them (kronos) to a full fledged fan. Excellent! Lacking in a few
- of the more folksy, romantic parts of the quartet, but blistering,
- bleak, and completely appropriate.
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- The entire album is fantastic, with the exception of the stupid dub of
- Charles Ives, which only lasts a couple minutes.
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