by Kronos Quartet · Nonesuch · CD · EAN 0075597916324
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«White Man Sleeps» is the classical music album by the Kronos Quartet, released in 1987 by Nonesuch on CD.
The album brings together contemporary chamber music by seven composers: Kevin Volans, Charles Ives, Jon Hassell, Thomas Oboe Lee, Ornette Coleman, Ben Johnston and Béla Bartók. The Kronos Quartet combines avant-garde pieces with the classical tradition, with the string quartet as the common thread.
Digital recording (DDD) on a single disc, with a duration of 66 minutes. The Nonesuch label published this reference with catalogue number 979 163-2 and reissued it in the 1990s.
Will appeal to fans of contemporary classical music and explorations of the string quartet outside the traditional repertoire.
