Tracklist
| Cat O'nine Tails (1988) | 13:44 | ||
| The Dead Man (1990) 13 Specimen For String Quartet | (12:29) | ||
| Variations | 1:04 | ||
| Sonatas | 0:41 | ||
| Manifesto | 0:49 | ||
| Fanfare | 0:56 | ||
| Meditation | 0:53 | ||
| Rondo | 0:48 | ||
| Romance | 0:30 | ||
| Blossoms | 1:07 | ||
| Fantasy | 0:52 | ||
| Folio | 1:15 | ||
| Nocturne | 1:38 | ||
| Etude | 0:40 | ||
| Prelude | 1:08 | ||
| Memento Mori (1992) (Ignotium Per Ignotius - The Unknown By Way Of The More Unknown) | 28:57 | ||
| Kol Nidre (1996) | 8:22 |
Credits (12)
Erik FriedlanderCello
John ZornComposed By
Ikue MoriDesign- The Zorn QuartetEnsemble
Kazunori SugiyamaExecutive-Producer [Associate Producer]
Hans BellmerIllustration
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| Image | , | – | In Your Collection, Wantlist, or Inventory | Version Details | Data Quality | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | The String Quartets CD, Album | Tzadik – TZ 7047 | US | 1999 | US — 1999 | Recently Edited | |||
 | The String Quartets CD, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release | Grammy – JPCD 2000205 | Russia | 1999 | Russia — 1999 | New Submission | |||
 | The String Quartets CD, Album | Tzadik – TZ 7047 | US | 1999 | US — 1999 | New Submission | |||
 | The String Quartets CD, Album | Tzadik – TZ 7047 | US | 1999 | US — 1999 | New Submission | |||
 | The String Quartets CD, Album | Tzadik – TZ 7047 | US | 1999 | US — 1999 | New Submission | |||
 | The String Quartets CD, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release | Not On Label (John Zorn) – JPCD 2000205 | Russia | Russia | New Submission |
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Edited 10 years agoreferencing The String Quartets (CD, Album) TZ 7047
Zorn's String Quartet's are whimsical, insolent, quotational, and even snarky, among his best work (I thought his parachute box, which shares many of these adjectivs, was a naked conceit and judging from the demand for my work I am an expert on that). Unlike Sharp's impressively unpleasant Quartets, which I would suggest are nonidiomatic, these exercises in extended technique seem committed to being panidiomatic without suffering from the perceived insincerity which i find unignorable in Naked City, as a dyed-in-the-wool Noise Core know-it-all.
Here, the same Starkly modern severity --that should and does scare away the less intrepid before they get thru the door-- seems to complement the thorny habitat of the 20th-century string quartet like a psychedelic palm tree unfurling itself seductively.
The writing is fun.
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