| Night Prayers | ||||
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| Released | 2 September 1994 | |||
| Recorded | 1992–1994 | |||
| Genre | Contemporary classical | |||
| Label | Nonesuch (#79346) | |||
| Producer | Judith Sherman | |||
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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).
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 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 |
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