![]() In his next two works for the group, G Song (1980) and especially in the ambitious Cadenza on the Night Plain (1983) (both released before, but reissued on this disc), Riley extended the collaboration, encouraging the quartet to explore the pure-tuning systems that he investigated a decade earlier, – though the process worked both ways, with Riley seeming able to regain a lot of the musical ground he abandoned decades before. Napolitano & Giambalvo/Redferns Photograph: Napolitano & Giambalvo/Redferns Perhaps the most interesting of them is Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector, which was the first piece Riley composed for the Kronos in 1980 if the music is rooted in Riley’s experience as an improviser, it also makes concessions towards the Kronos’s training in the classical tradition, presenting the players with a series of modal units, brief riffs, fragments of melody and rhythmic patterns that they superimpose as they like on a strict metrical grid, adding their own dynamics and phrasing, so the quartet becomes as much a part of the creative process as Riley himself. To mark Riley’s 80th birthday this year, Nonesuch has released a five-disc box chronicling that collaboration included is this brand new disc (also available separately) containing three works never before recorded. That was the start of a creative partnership that has now lasted more than 30 years, and resulted in more than a dozen works. After more than a decade in which Riley produced no written-down music, he was persuaded to compose a score for the Kronos Quartet, then at the very beginning of their collective career.
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