Kronos Quartet Performs Alfred Schnittke – The Complete String Quartets

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Label:	Nonesuch – 79500-2
Format:	2 x CD, Album
Country:	US
Released:	1998
Genre:	Classical
Style:	Contemporary

Tracklist

	String Quartet No. 1 (1966)	(16:34)
1-1	I. Sonata	7:32
1-2	II. Canon	3:30
1-3	III. Cadenza	5:33
1-4	Canon In Memory Of I. Stravinsky	5:21
	String Quartet No. 2 (1980)	(21:51)
1-5	I. Moderato	3:12
1-6	II. Agitato	5:36
1-7	III. Mesto	6:41
1-8	IV. Moderato	6:22
	String Quartet No. 3 (1983)	(19:02)
1-9	I. Andante	5:41
1-10	II. Agitato	5:44
1-11	III. Pesante	7:37
	String Quartet No. 4 (1989)	(34:43)
2-1	I. Lento	9:03
2-2	II. Allegro	7:00
2-3	III. Lento	5:51
2-4	IV. Vivace	3:21
2-5	V. Lento	9:15
2-6	Collected Songs Where Every Verse Is Filled With Grief	8:13

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Recorded At – Skywalker Sound
Recorded At – Methuen Memorial Music Hall
Mastered At – Soundbyte Productions
Glass Mastered At – WEA Mfg. Olyphant – X4179
Glass Mastered At – WEA Mfg. Olyphant – W3012
Pressed By – WEA Mfg. Olyphant

Credits

Art Direction, Design – Frank Olinsky
Cello – Joan Jeanrenaud
Composed By – Alfred Schnittke
Engineer – Craig Silvey
Executive-Producer – Robert Hurwitz
Liner Notes – Solomon Volkov
Liner Notes [English Translation] – Valeria Susanina
Liner Notes [Translation Edited By] – Sidney Chen
Mastered By – David Harrington, Judith Sherman
Performer – Kronos Quartet
Photography By [Alfred Schnittke on his Moscow apartment (1975)] – Marianna Volkov
Photography By [Kronos Quartet] – Caroline Greyshock
Photography By [Slipcase and booklet cover of Alfred Schnittke] – Betty Freeman
Producer – Judith Sherman
Viola – Hank Dutt
Violin – David Harrington, John Sherba

Notes

Packaged in a standard jewel case, enclosed in an O-card, with an illustrated 24-page book that includes credits, release information, tracklist, and notes in Russian (with English translation).

Tracks 1-1 to 1-8, 2-1 to 2-5 recorded August 1994-August 1996 at Skywalker Sound, Nicasio, Calif.

Tracks 1-9 to 1-11 recorded November 1987 at Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Methuen, Mass.
Previously released on Kronos Quartet - Winter Was Hard, Nonesuch 79181

Track 2-6 recorded November 1997 at Skywalker Sound, Nicasio, Calif.
Previously released on Kronos Quartet - Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ), Nonesuch 79457

Mastered at SoundByte Productions, New York City

String Quartet No. 1 (1966) - Commissioned by Rostislav Dubinsky (Borodin Quartet).
Canon In Memory Of I. Stravinsky was commissioned by "Tempo" magazine.
String Quartet No. 2 (1980) - Commissioned by Universal Edition.
String Quartet No. 3 (1983) - Commissioned by the Mannheim Gesellschaft für Neue Musik for the Beethoven Quartet.
String Quartet No. 4 (1989) - Commissioned by the Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft for the Alban Berg Quartet.
Concerto for Mixed Choir was comissioned by the Moscow Chamber Choir.

Published by G. Schirmer, Inc. o/b/o Universal Edition, except "Canon in Memory of I. Stravinsky" and "Collected Songs Where Every Verse If Filled with Grief", published by G. Schirmer, Inc. o/b/o Hans Sikorski.