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Henryk Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ('...songs are sung')

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Release date
  
20 March 2007

Label
  
Nonesuch Records Inc.

Producer
  
Judith Sherman

Henryk Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ('...songs are sung') httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaen33cKro

Released
  
20 March 2007 (2007-03-20)

Henryk Górecki String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 (2007)
  
Kronos Quartet Plays Sigur Rós (2007)

Artists
  
Henryk Górecki, Kronos Quartet

Genres
  
Classical music, Contemporary classical music

Similar
  
Kronos Quartet albums, Contemporary classical music albums, Other albums

Henryk Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ('...songs are sung') is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, containing the last string quartet by Polish composer Henryk Górecki. The Kronos Quartet had recorded Górecki's other string quartets on Henryk Mikolaj Górecki: Already It Is Dusk/"Lerchenmusik" (1991) and on Henryk Górecki: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 (1993).

Contents

Track listing

All music composed by Henryk Górecki.

Critical reception

The album was an "Editor's Choice" for Strings magazine, which called it "a solemn, spiritual, and revolutionary work."

Musicians

  • David Harrington - violin
  • John Sherba - violin
  • Hank Dutt - viola
  • Jeffrey Zeigler - cello
  • Production

  • Recorded August 1–3, 2006 at Skywalker Sound, Nicasio, California
  • Leslie Ann Jones - engineer
  • Dann Thompson - assistant engineer
  • Robert Hurwitz - executive producer
  • Frank Olinsky - art direction, design
  • Keith Carter - cover photograph
  • Songs

    1I Adagio-Molto Andante-Cantabile10:34
    2II Largo - Cantabile10:59
    3Gorecki: String Quartet No3 - Op67 'Songs Are Sung': III Allegro - Sempre Ben Marcato4:23

    References

    Henryk Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ('...songs are sung') Wikipedia