Winter Was Hard

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Artist Kronos Quartet Label Nonesuch Records Inc.		Release date 30 September 1988 Producers Judith Sherman, John Zorn

Released 30 September 1988 (1988-09-30) Winter Was Hard (1988) Steve Reich Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint (1989) Genre Contemporary classical music Similar Kronos Quartet albums, Contemporary classical music albums, Other albums

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Winter Was Hard is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet. It contains compositions by Aulis Sallinen, Terry Riley, Arvo Pärt, Anton Webern, John Zorn, John Lurie, Ástor Piazzolla, Alfred Schnittke, and Samuel Barber.

Critical reception

The album was listed at #11 in the Los Angeles Times Classical Top 25 of 1989. Brian Olewnick, in the All Music Guide to Jazz, calls it a "fairly typical early mélange type recording by Kronos, mixing in au courant contemporary fare with a downtown edge and 20th century classics."

Musicians

David Harrington – violin

John Sherba – violin

Hank Dutt – viola

Joan Jeanrenaud – cello

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Elizabeth Appling, director ("Winter Was Hard Op. 20")

Earl L. Miller – reed organ ("Winter Was Hard Op. 20")

Christian Marclay – turntables ("Forbidden Fruit")

Ohta Hiromi – voice ("Forbidden Fruit")

Production

Tracks 1–4, 6–10 recorded November 1987 at Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Methuen, Massachusetts

John Newton – Engineer

Track 1 recorded January 1988 at St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco, CA

Howard Johnston, John Newton – Engineers

Track 5 produced by John Zorn, recorded September 1987 at Russian Hill Recording, San Francisco, CA (Howard Johnston – Engineer) and at Metal Box Studio, Tokyo, Japan (Ono Seigen – Engineer); mixed September 1987 at CBS Roppongi Studio, Tokyo, Japan by Ono Seigen

Songs

1Winter Was Hard1:46
2Half Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight8:27
3Fratres9:32

References

Winter Was Hard Wikipedia

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