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Night Prayers

Night Prayers
Studio album by
Released2 September 1994 (1994-09-02)
Recorded1992–1994
GenreContemporary classical
LabelNonesuch (#79346)
ProducerJudith Sherman
Kronos Quartet chronology
Bob Ostertag: All the Rage
(1993)
Night Prayers
(1994)
Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass
(1993)

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

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Kongerei"Trad., arr. Steven Mackey3:38
2."Lacrymosa"Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky6:01
3."Mugam Sayagi"Franghiz Ali-Zadeh21:16
4."Quartet No. 4"Sofia Gubaidulina11:46
5."A Cool Wind is Blowing"Tigran Tahmizyan3:56
6."K'Vakarat"Osvaldo Golijov8:09
7."Night Prayers"Giya Kancheli23:14

Personnel

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Musicians

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Production

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "CDs". New York Magazine. 12 September 1994. Retrieved 12 November 2010.