Winter Was Hard

Winter Was Hard
Kronos winter.jpg
Studio album by
Released30 September 1988 (1988-09-30)
GenreContemporary classical
LabelNonesuch (#79181)
ProducerJudith Sherman, John Zorn
Kronos Quartet chronology
White Man Sleeps
(1988)
Winter Was Hard
(1988)
Steve Reich: Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic3 stars[1]

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.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Winter Was Hard Op. 20"Aulis Sallinen1:40
2."Half-Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight"Terry Riley8:21
3."Fratres"Arvo Pärt9:23
4."Six Bagatelles, Op. 9"Anton Webern3:57
5."Forbidden Fruit"John Zorn10:20
6."Bella By Barlight"John Lurie2:47
7."Four, For Tango"Ástor Piazzolla4:41
8."Quartet No. 3"Alfred Schnittke19:06
9."Adagio"Samuel Barber7:09
10."A Door is Ajar"traditional0:37

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

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

  1. ^ Winter Was Hard at AllMusic, by Brian Olewnick
  2. ^ "By The Numbers: Top 25 Classical Albums of 1989". Los Angeles Times. 1989-12-26.
  3. ^ 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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