Album US 1994 on Elektra Nonesuch label
Classical (Contemporary)
Recorded 1992-1994 at Skywalker Sound, Marin County, California; The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts. Mastered at Soundbyte, New York, New York. Recordings of male choir and boy soprano for Night Prayers provided by Giya Kancheli Kongerei was arranged for the Throat Singers of Tuva and Kronos. Mugam Sayagi, Quartet No. 4, A Cool Wind is Blowing and Night Prayers were written for Kronos. K'VAKARAT was written for Mikhail Alexandrovich and Kronos. Mugam Sayagi was commissioned by Nora Norden. Quartet No. 4 was commissioned by Mrs. Ralph I. Dorfman, the Barbican Centre and Theatre de la Ville. K'VAKARAT was commissioned by the Wexner Center Foundation on the occasion of the dedication of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Night Prayers was commissioned by the Beigler Trust and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Special thanks to Angel Stoyanof, Gerard McBurney, Ted Levin, Edward Dumanis, Hans-Ulrich Dufflek, Laurel Fay, Susan Feder, Lucina Aglabian-Hubbard, Andrew Kurowski, Peter Clancy, Carol Yaple, Albert Lee, Karine Beznicki, Scott Fraser, Jay Cloidt, Alice Wingwall, Chuck Helm and Wally Chappell. In memory of Mario Thomas Moruzzi ℗ & © 1994 Elektra Entertainment, a division of Warner Communications Inc., a Time Warner company. Made in the USA CD comes packaged in a standard plastic jewel case, and includes a 16-page booklet with notes in English and lyrics.
![]() | Kronos Quartet , *1973 US album by |
![]() | Joan Jeanrenaud vc, *1956 US cello |
![]() | Hank Dutt vl, viola |
![]() | David Harrington vn, US violin |
![]() | John Sherba vn, violin |
![]() | Anatoly Kuular , vocals |
![]() | Kaigal-Ool Khovalgy , vocals |
![]() | Kongar-Ool Ondar voc, bvoc, 1962-2013 RU vocals |
![]() | Steven Mackey g, eg, *1956 US arranged by |
![]() | Dawn Upshaw voc, *1960 US soprano vocals |
![]() | Djivan Gasparyan voc, *1928 GB duduk |
![]() | Михаил Александрович voc, vocals, cantor |
Frank Olinsky art direction, design |
Matt Mahurin cover |
Bob Edwards engineer |
Craig Silvey engineer, engineer, assistant engineer |
Joseph Chilorio engineer |
Judith Sherman engineer |
Paul Zinman engineer |
Chris Haynes engineer, assistant engineer |
Mark Donahue engineer, assistant engineer |
Tom Luekens engineer, assistant engineer |
Robert Hurwitz executive-producer |
Brooke Gladstone liner notes |
David Merrill mixed by, additional mixing, assistant engineer |
Ben Rizzi mixed by, additional mixing, engineer |
Adam Abeshouse mixed by, additional mixing |
Giya Kancheli recorded by, recordings of male choir and boy soprano provided by |
No | ![]() |
Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
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1 | ![]() | Kongerei | Kronos Quartet | Traditional | 3:38 |
2 | ![]() | Lacrymosa | Kronos Quartet | Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky | 6:01 |
3 | ![]() | Mugam Sayagi | Kronos Quartet | Franghiz Ali-Zadeh | 21:16 |
4 | ![]() | Quartet No. 4 | Kronos Quartet | Sofia Gubaidulina | 11:46 |
5 | ![]() | A Cool Wind Is Blowing | Kronos Quartet | Tigran Tahmizyan | 3:56 |
6 | ![]() | K'vakarat | Kronos Quartet | Osvaldo Golijov | 8:09 |
7 | Night Prayers | Kronos Quartet | Giya Kancheli | 23:14 |
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