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Night Prayers

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Recorded
  
1992-1994

Release date
  
2 September 1994

Label
  
Elektra Nonesuch

Artist
  
Kronos Quartet

Producer
  
Judith Sherman

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Released
  
2 September 1994 (1994-09-02)

Night Prayers(1994)
  
Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass(1993)

Genres
  
Classical music, Contemporary classical music

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

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, and includes performances by Throat Singers of Tuva, Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Djivan Gasparian (duduk), and Mikhail Alexandrovich (cantor).

Contents

Musicians

  • David Harrington - violin
  • John Sherba - violin
  • Hank Dutt - viola
  • Joan Jeanrenaud - cello
  • Throat Singers of Tuva (track 1)
  • Kaigal-ool Khovalyg
  • Anatoly Kuular
  • Kongar-ol Ondar
  • Dawn Upshaw - soprano (track 2)
  • Djivan Gasparyan - duduk (track 5)
  • Mikhail Alexandrovich - cantor (track 6)

    • Production

  • 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

    • Songs

    1KongereiHuun-Huur-Tu3:44
    2LacrymosaDawn Upshaw6:06
    3Mugam Sayagi21:32

    References

    Night Prayers Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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