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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
 | John Zorn as, *1953 US composed by, producer, album by |
 | Erik Friedlander vc, *1960 US cello |
 | John Zorn Quartet , ensemble |
 | Lois Martin vl, viola |
 | Joyce Hammann vn, US violin, first |
 | Mark 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Cat O'nine Tails (1988) | John Zorn | 13:44 | |
| 2 | | The Dead Man (1990) 13 Specimen For String Quartet | John Zorn | 12:29 | |
| 3 | | Variations | John Zorn | 1:04 | |
| 4 | | Sonatas | John Zorn | 0:41 | |
| 5 | | Manifesto | John Zorn | 0:49 | |
| 6 | | Fanfare | John Zorn | 0:56 | |
| 7 | | Meditation | John Zorn | 0:53 | |
| 8 | | Rondo | John Zorn | 0:48 | |
| 9 | | Romance | John Zorn | 0:30 | |
| 10 | | Blossoms | John Zorn | 1:07 | |
| 11 | | Fantasy | John Zorn | 0:52 | |
| 12 | | Folio | John Zorn | 1:15 | |
| 13 | | Nocturne | John Zorn | 1:38 | |
| 14 | | Etude | John Zorn | 0:40 | |
| 15 | | Prelude | John Zorn | 1:08 | |
| 16 | Memento Mori (1992) (Ignotium Per Ignotius - The Unknown By Way Of The More Unknown) | John Zorn | 28:57 | ||
| 17 | Kol Nidre (1996) | John Zorn | 8:22 |
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