One of the challenges for a group like the Kronos Quartet is to keep finding new pathways to explore. They’ve spent a half-century commissioning works from cutting-edge composers, collaborating with unlikely partners, and stretching the boundaries of what a string quartet can do. Where else is there to go? Their latest release, Forgive Us For, has a few answers: Palestine, Iceland, and Ukraine. The album features three very different pieces, each topical in its own way.
The opener is “Ya Taali’een el-Jabal” (Going Up the Mountain), a traditional song that Palestinian women would use to communicate with men in prison. The album notes date it to the British Mandate; other theories trace it back further, to Ottoman times. More recently, vocalist…
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