Night Prayers

Night Prayers
Bob Ostertag: All the Rage
Studio album by Kronos Quartet
Released 2 September 1994 (1994-09-02)
Recorded 1992-1994
Genre Contemporary classical
Label Nonesuch (#79346)
Producer Judith Sherman
Kronos Quartet chronology
Bob Ostertag: All the Rage
(1993)		 Night Prayers
(1994)		 Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass
(1993)

Night Prayers is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet. It contains commissioned pieces with music from former Soviet republics in Eastern Europe and Central Asia,[1] and includes performances by Throat Singers of Tuva, Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Djivan Gasparian (duduk), and Mikhail Alexandrovich (cantor).

Contents

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Kongerei" (Trad., arr. S. Mackey) 3:38
2. "Lacrymosa" (Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky) 6:01
3. "Mugam Sayagi" (Franghiz Ali-Zadeh) 21:16
4. "Quartet No. 4"   11:46
5. "A Cool Wind is Blowing" (Tigran Tahmizyan) 3:56
6. "K'Vakarat" (Osvaldo Golijov) 8:09
7. "Night Prayers" (Giya Kancheli) 23:14

Personnel

Musicians

  • David Harrington - violin
  • John Sherba - violin
  • Hank Dutt - viola
  • Joan Jeanrenaud - cello

Production

  • Recorded at Skywalker Sound, Nicasio, California; The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York; and Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts
    • Judith Sherman, Kronos Quartet - Producers
    • Robert Hurwitz - Executive producer
    • Joseph Chilorio - Engineer (tracks 4, 6)
    • Bob Edwards - Engineer (tracks 1, 7)
    • Judith Sherman - Engineer (tracks 2-6)
    • Craig Silvey - Engineer (tracks 3-5)
    • Paul Zinman - Engineer (track 2)
    • Mark Donahue - Assistant engineer (track 4)
    • Chris Haynes - Assistant engineer (tracks 4, 5)
    • Tom Luekens - Assistant engineer (tracks 1, 3)
    • Craig Silvey - Assistant engineer (track 7)
  • David Wojnarowicz - Cover
  • Frank Olinsky - Design

References

  1. ^ "CDs". New York Magazine. 12 September 1994. http://books.google.com/books?id=MeQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA78. Retrieved 12 November 2010. 

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