Night Prayers

1994 studio album by Kronos Quartet

Night Prayers

Studio album by

Kronos Quartet

Released

2 September 1994 (1994-09-02)

Recorded

1992–1994

Genre

Contemporary classical

Label

Nonesuch (#79346)

Producer

Judith 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

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Kongerei"	Trad., arr. Steven Mackey	3:38
2.	"Lacrymosa"	Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky	6:01
3.	"Mugam Sayagi"	Franghiz Ali-Zadeh	21:16
4.	"Quartet No. 4"	Sofia Gubaidulina	11:46
5.	"A Cool Wind is Blowing"	Tigran Tahmizyan	3:56
6.	"K'Vakarat"	Osvaldo Golijov	8:09
7.	"Night Prayers"	Giya Kancheli	23:14

Personnel

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