The Complete String Quartets

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Album Info

Release Date: 1998

Label: Nonesuch

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.

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