Winter Was Hard
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.
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| Released | 30 September 1988 | |||
| Genre | Contemporary classical | |||
| Label | Nonesuch (#79181) | |||
| Producer | Judith Sherman, John Zorn | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Winter Was Hard Op. 20" | Aulis Sallinen | 1:40 |
| 2. | "Half-Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight" | Terry Riley | 8:21 |
| 3. | "Fratres" | Arvo Pärt | 9:23 |
| 4. | "Six Bagatelles, Op. 9" | Anton Webern | 3:57 |
| 5. | "Forbidden Fruit" | John Zorn | 10:20 |
| 6. | "Bella By Barlight" | John Lurie | 2:47 |
| 7. | "Four, For Tango" | Ástor Piazzolla | 4:41 |
| 8. | "Quartet No. 3" | Alfred Schnittke | 19:06 |
| 9. | "Adagio" | Samuel Barber | 7:09 |
| 10. | "A Door is Ajar" | traditional | 0:37 |
Critical reception
The album was listed at #11 in the Los Angeles Times Classical Top 25 of 1989.[2] 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."[3]
Credits
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
See also
References
- Winter Was Hard at AllMusic, by Brian Olewnick
- "By The Numbers: Top 25 Classical Albums of 1989". Los Angeles Times. 1989-12-26.
- Bogdanov, Vladimir; Chris Woodstra; Stephen Thomas Erlewine (2002). "Kronos Quartet". All Music Guide to Jazz: The Definitive Guide to Jazz Music. Backbeat. p. 300. ISBN 978-0-87930-717-2. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
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