Kronos Quartet - Night Prayers

Kronos Quartet - Night Prayers
Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:52 pm R

Kronos Quartet - Night Prayers

(1994)

One of the five most acclaimed New Music chamber ensembles in the world, Kronos Quartet has recorded music from every period, from Machaut to Wagner to Hendrix to Dun. Their Night Prayers collection--which features mainly Eastern European composers--peaks with Sofia Gubaidulina's bristling Quartet No. 4. Expert at traditional instrumentation and composition, Gubaidulina scripts the piece's early parts with vaguely balalaika-like tones that morph into mid- range, stretched notes. The quartet's underlying structure becomes a skittering display of plucked, repetitive notes against which the strings variously slash, sweep, and chatter. Gubaidulina's summation of late-century chamber work is more than striking. --Andrew Bartlett

1. Kongerei 3:39
Composed by Traditional
with David Harrington, Joan Jeanrenaud, Throat Singers of Tuva, John Sherba, Kronos Quartet, Hank Dutt

2. Lacrymosa 6:01
Composed by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky
with David Harrington, Joan Jeanrenaud, John Sherba, Kronos Quartet, Dawn Upshaw, Hank Dutt

3. Mugam Sayagi 21:27
Composed by Franguiz Ali-Zadeh
with David Harrington, Joan Jeanrenaud, John Sherba, Kronos Quartet, Hank Dutt

4. Quartet No. 4 11:56
Composed by Sofiya Gubaydulina
with David Harrington, Joan Jeanrenaud, John Sherba, Kronos Quartet, Hank Dutt

5. A Cool Wind Is Blowing 4:02
Composed by Tigran Tahmizyan
with David Harrington, Joan Jeanrenaud, John Sherba, Kronos Quartet, Djivan Gasparian, Hank Dutt

6. K'vakarat 8:12
Composed by Osvaldo Golijov
with David Harrington, Joan Jeanrenaud, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, John Sherba, Kronos Quartet, Hank Dutt

7. Night Prayers, for soprano saxophone & string orchestra
23:19
Composed by Giya Kancheli
with David Harrington, Joan Jeanrenaud, John Sherba, Kronos Quartet, Hank Dutt

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