As interpreted by the Kronos Quartet, "Early Music" on this CD is not your average antiquarian's dustbin of 16th-century religious oldies. It is a complex journey through time. Beginning with 16th-century composer de Machaut through Tudor era composers Tye and Dowland, the CD jumps ahead to the early music of 20th-century composers John Cage and Arvo Partch. It then wanders back to 9th-century byzantine liturgical composer Kassia weaving back and forth through history … mehrto reveal an impressive musical discussion that both brings new relevancy to the old and brilliantly places modern music in context with the eternal. Listening to this CD is a truly enlightening voyage that reveals all epochs of music as being relevant to each other. This Kronos Quartet recording will appeal to the adventurous music listener who yearns for far more intellectual rigor than traditional classical music. weniger

1. Guillaume de Machaut: Kyrie I
2. Christopher Tye: Rechaell's Weeping
3. David Lamb: Långdans efter Byfåns Mats
4. John Dowland: Lachrymae Antiquae
5. Arov Pärt: Psalom… mehr
6. Harry Partch: Two Studies on Ancient Greek cales
7. Jack Body: Long-Ge
8. John Cage: Totem Ancestor
9. Guillaume de Machaut: Kyrie II
10. Traditional Sweden: Brodmarsch frå Ôsta
11. Kassia: Using the Apostate Tyrant As His Tool
12. Louis Hardin a.k.a. Moondog: Synchrony No. 2
13. John Cage: Quodlibet
14. Perotin: Viderunt Omnes
15. Guillaume de Machaut: Kyrie III
16. Henry Purcell: Four Part Fantasia No. 2
17. Hildegard von Bingen: O Virtus Sapientie
18. Traditional Tuva: Uleg-Khem
19. Christopher Tye: Farwell My Good 1. Forever
20. Alfred Schnittke: Collected Songs Where Every Versce is Filled with Grief
21. Bells weniger