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."

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

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

Kronos Quartet albums

2007 classical albums

Nonesuch Records albums

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