Kronos Quartet live in Warsaw, Poland. Photograph by Henryk Kotowski.Studio albums43Compilation albums2Video albums3Soundtrack albums5Contributions29The of the includes 43 studio albums, two compilations, five soundtracks, and 29 contributions to other artists' records. The Kronos Quartet plays classical, pop, rock, jazz, folk, world and (often written especially for them by for instance Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Alexandra Vrebalov.) and was founded in 1973 by David Harrington. Since 1978, they are based in. Since 1985, the quartet's music has been released on.Early recordings by the quartet contain contemporary classical music and adaptations of more popular music, such as jazz and rock and roll. Since the 1980s, and especially with the release of Cadenza on the Night Plain, written as a collaboration between composer and the quartet, much of the quartet's repertoire and album releases contain music written especially for them, by composers such as Terry Riley,.
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Their music 'covers a who's who of 20th century-composers', as one critic noted in 1998.Kronos has recorded five including the 1998 score by for the 1931 silent movie, and has contributed to the soundtracks of five other movies, including. Outside the genre of classical music, Kronos has collaborated with a great number of other artists, especially, such as, and.The quartet has achieved considerable commercial and critical success and by 1998 (the year of the quartet's 25th anniversary) had sold more than 1.5 million albums. Many of Kronos' albums have ranked on various charts; the 1992 album Pieces of Africa reached #1 in the chart. The quartet won a Grammy for the 2003 album Lyric Suite.