| Kronos Quartet | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Kronos Quartet |
| Cover: | Kronos kronos.jpg |
| Recorded: | June 1985 |
| Genre: | Contemporary classical |
| Label: | Nonesuch (#79111) |
| Producer: | Thomas Frost |
| Prev Title: | Music of Bill Evans |
| Prev Year: | 1986 |
| Next Title: | White Man Sleeps |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
Kronos Quartet is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, the first of their albums on Nonesuch Records. It contains compositions by Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe, Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen, American composer Philip Glass, and American/Mexican composer Conlon Nancarrow. The last track is Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze."[1]
According to John Rockwell of the New York Times, "The best recorded anthology yet to capture the heady diversity of musical idioms that this San Francisco quartet espouses."[2] Joseph McLellan, for the Washington Post, commented in a similar vein: "This group is absolutely amazing-not merely because of the superb technique with which it tackles the challenging contemporary repertoire, but even more for the breadth of vision that matter-of-factly and quite correctly includes Jimi Hendrix. . . . Hearing this music is a mind-expanding experience."[3]