Kronos QuartetBest Kronos Quartet Albums Ranked
7.3
Avg Score
5
Opinions
12
Albums
3
Reviewers
Summary from 5 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Kronos Quartet’s catalog across 12 albums from 5 opinions, with an overall average of 7.3/10. The top-rated Kronos Quartet album is Glorious Mahalia (2026) with a 8.0/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger and Aheym. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2011 to 2026.
Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger
“It’s clearly no accident that the San Francisco string quartet are paying tribute to the late civil rights activist Pete Seeger on the eve of a presidential election. There were few more resilient opponents of Trumpian values than Seeger, who weathered FBI investigation, blacklisting and a jail sentence on his way to becoming the godfather of folk protest. In 2011, at age 92, he was still to be fo”
Aheym
“Bryce Dessner's day job as a guitarist in the National requires him to work in big, sweeping rock-song arcs, but his solo work displays a furiously complicated musical mind chattering to itself. On his new collaboration with the Kronos Quartet, Aheym, Dessner produces vivid, fierce chamber pieces.”
Steve Reich: WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet & Dance Patterns
“Steve Reich's memorial to September 11, which takes a form similar to 1989's Different Trains, another project he committed to tape with Kronos Quartet, mixes music with emergency dispatches from 9/11 and interviews conducted in 2010 with his close friends.”