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Night Prayers

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Night Prayers
Studio album by
Released2 September 1994 (1994-09-02)
Recorded1992–1994
GenreContemporary classical
LabelNonesuch (#79346)
ProducerJudith 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 Gasparyan (duduk), and Mikhail Alexandrovich (cantor).

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Kongerei"Trad., arr. Steven Mackey3:38
2."Lacrymosa"Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky6:01
3."Mugam Sayagi"Franghiz Ali-Zadeh21:16
4."Quartet No. 4"Sofia Gubaidulina11:46
5."A Cool Wind is Blowing"Tigran Tahmizyan3:56
6."K'Vakarat"Osvaldo Golijov8:09
7."Night Prayers"Giya Kancheli23:14

Personnel

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Musicians

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Production

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ "CDs". New York Magazine. 12 September 1994. Retrieved 12 November 2010.