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John Zorn
The String Quartets

Album US 1999 on Tzadik label
Classical (Modern Classical, Contemporary)

Recorded at Avatar, NYC, December 1998, January, April and May 1999. Mastered at Foothill Digital. Special thanks to Zoe Thrall. "Writing string quartets is an exciting challenge and when the Kronos Quartet first asked me for a quartet I took the challenge very seriously. The result has been (to date now) four quartets, three commissioned by Kronos and one written in a flash of inspiration during the days I was composing the Masada songbook. "Each quartet is very different in form, conception, and tone. In a certain sense Cat o' Nine Tails is about the visual, The Dead Man is about the sensual, Memento Mori the emotional and Kol Nidre the spiritual. But they also share elements in common and it is interesting to hear the overlap and development across the eight years in which these pieces were written." John Zorn

     
Musicians
PortraitJohn Zorn as, *1953 US
composed by, producer, album by
PortraitErik Friedlander vc, *1960 US
cello
PortraitJohn Zorn Quartet ,
ensemble
PortraitLois Martin vl,
viola
PortraitJoyce Hammann vn, US
violin, first
PortraitMark Feldman vn, *1955 US
violin, second, violin, first
Producers
Ikue Mori design
Kazunori Sugiyama executive-producer, associate producer
Hans Bellmer illustration
Allan Tucker mastered by
Jim Anderson recorded by
Composers
John Zorn
Album Tracks   
No Title Artist Composer Duration
1Cat O'nine Tails (1988)John Zorn13:44
2The Dead Man (1990) 13 Specimen For String QuartetJohn Zorn12:29
3VariationsJohn Zorn1:04
4SonatasJohn Zorn0:41
5ManifestoJohn Zorn0:49
6FanfareJohn Zorn0:56
7MeditationJohn Zorn0:53
8RondoJohn Zorn0:48
9RomanceJohn Zorn0:30
10BlossomsJohn Zorn1:07
11FantasyJohn Zorn0:52
12FolioJohn Zorn1:15
13NocturneJohn Zorn1:38
14EtudeJohn Zorn0:40
15PreludeJohn Zorn1:08
16 Memento Mori (1992) (Ignotium Per Ignotius - The Unknown By Way Of The More Unknown)John Zorn28:57
17 Kol Nidre (1996)John Zorn8:22

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