Night prayers.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Kronos Quartet, performer.

Contributor:

Upshaw, Dawn, performer.

Gasparian, Djivan, performer.

Aleksandrovich, Mikhail, performer.

Huun-Huur-Tu (Musical group), performer.

Language:

Altaic (Other)

English

Hebrew

Latin

Subjects (All):

Songs, Tuvinian.

Songs with instrumental ensemble.

String quartets.

Quintets (Duduk (Oboe), violins (2), viola, cello).

Genre:

String quartets.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Elektra/Nonesuch, [1994]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

digital recording

Contents:

Kongerei / traditional, arr. S. Mackey (with Throat Singers of Tuva) (3:38)

Lacrymosa / Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky (with Dawn Upshaw, soprano) (6:01)

Mugam sayagi / Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (21:16)

Quartet no. 4 / Sofia Gubaidulina (11:46)

A cool wind is blowing / Tigran Tahmizyan (with Djivan Gasparian, duduk) (3:56)

Kʻvakarat / Osvaldo Golijov (with Mikhail Alexandrovich, cantor) (8:09)

Night prayers / Giya Kancheli (23:14)

Participant:

Kronos Quartet.

Notes:

Elektra Nonesuch: 79346-2 (on container: 9 79346-2)

Recorded in various locations between 1992 and 1994.

Compact disc.

Program notes by "a spokesperson [for the] Throat Singers of Tuva]" (1st work) or by the composers (remaining works), and texts in the original languages with English translations ([16] p. : ill.) inserted in container.

Contains:

Mackey, Steven, 1956- Kongerei.

Yanov-Yanovsky, Dmitri. Lacrymosa.

Älizadä, Firängiz, 1947- Mugam-sajahy.

Gubaidulina, Sofia, 1931-2025. Quartets, violins (2), viola, cello, no. 4

Tahmizyan, Tigran, 1961- Cool wind is blowing.

Golijov, Osvaldo, 1960- K'vakarat.

Kancheli, Gii︠a︡. Leben ohne Weihnacht. Nachtgebete

OCLC:

31184149

Publisher Number:

79346-2 Elektra Nonesuch

9 79346-2 Elektra Nonesuch