Night Prayers
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 Gasparyan (duduk), and Mikhail Alexandrovich (cantor).
| Night Prayers | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 2 September 1994 | |||
| Recorded | 1992–1994 | |||
| Genre | Contemporary classical | |||
| Label | Nonesuch (#79346) | |||
| Producer | Judith Sherman | |||
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Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Kongerei" | Trad., arr. Steven Mackey | 3:38 |
| 2. | "Lacrymosa" | Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky | 6:01 |
| 3. | "Mugam Sayagi" | Franghiz Ali-Zadeh | 21:16 |
| 4. | "Quartet No. 4" | Sofia Gubaidulina | 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
- Throat Singers of Tuva (track 1)
- Kaigal-ool Khovalyg
- Anatoly Kuular
- Kongar-ol Ondar
- Dawn Upshaw – soprano (track 2)
- Djivan Gasparyan – duduk (track 5)
- Mikhail Alexandrovich – cantor (track 6)
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
See also
References
- "CDs". New York Magazine. 12 September 1994. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
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