I have heard the Kronos Quartet perform the Schnittke. I must say I quite like them. But having not heard any other quartet perform the works, I cannot say one way or the other if the interpretations are 'good' or not. And of course, I am not authority on Schnittke's music in general. For me, on listening to them, it was always the work I wanted to hear and not the performance; that is, I did not buy the cd because of the large "Kronos" printed on the front, but because of the "Schnittke String Quartets". I hadn't heard any Schnittke before, so I tried it out ... liked it ... liked the works. There can't be too many recordings of the Schnittke SQs out there, so I suggest you not get caught up over the infinite problems of "proper performance". -Mark A. Knezevic [log in to unmask]