Henryk Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ('...songs are sung')

Henryk Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ('...songs are sung')
Studio album by Kronos Quartet
Released	20 March 2007 (2007-03-20)
Genre	Contemporary classical
Label	Nonesuch (#79993)
Producer	Judith Sherman
Kronos Quartet chronology
The Fountain (2006) Henryk Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ('...songs are sung') (2007) Kronos Quartet Plays Sigur Rós (2007)

Henryk Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ('...songs are sung') is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, containing the last string quartet by Polish composer Henryk Górecki. The Kronos Quartet had recorded Górecki's other string quartets on Henryk Mikolaj Górecki: Already It Is Dusk/"Lerchenmusik" (1991) and on Henryk Górecki: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 (1993).

Track listing

Critical reception

The album was an "Editor's Choice" for Strings magazine, which called it "a solemn, spiritual, and revolutionary work."^[1]

Credits

Musicians

• David Harrington – violin
• John Sherba – violin
• Hank Dutt – viola
• Jeffrey Zeigler – cello

Production

• Recorded August 1–3, 2006 at Skywalker Sound, Nicasio, California
  • Leslie Ann Jones – engineer
  • Dann Thompson – assistant engineer
• Robert Hurwitz – executive producer
• Frank Olinsky – art direction, design
• Keith Carter – cover photograph

See also

• List of 2007 albums

References