Was there a time when The Kronos Quartet wasn’t going to be involved at all?
MANSELL: I think, in our minds, we weren’t going to work with them because we didn’t think, REQUIEM worked so well, we just felt we weren’t going to top that. We thought maybe if we were lucky enough to make another two or three more pictures then we would go back to them but as the score developed and as it became more intimate and as I listened to bands like Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Sigur Ros it was sort of cinematic and orchestral but on a neo-classical level; it was a more modern approach to orchestrated music. And as I was blending the various elements it occurred to me to think about who would be the best in the world to play this and the answer is Kronos Quartet The answer is still the same, six years later. And although we hadn’t really been in touch with each other that much during that time, when I talked to David [Harrington] and the rest of Kronos it was weird…We had each gone off for six years and done different things but then when it was time to talk about
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