In Formation | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Kronos Quartet |
Cover: | Kronos formation.jpg |
Recorded: | 1979 at St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco |
Genre: | Contemporary classical |
Label: | Reference Recordings (#9) |
Next Year: | 1985 |
In Formation is the first studio album by the Kronos Quartet. It contains compositions by Ken Benshof, Hunt Beyer, Alan Dorsey, John Geist, David Kechley, and others. The album was re-issued on CD on 17 December 1993 (Reference #RR-9CD).
In Fanfare magazine, the albums was praised highly: "In imaging, transient accuracy and timbre, one of the finest string quartet discs ever issued."[1]