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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).

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)

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

• Kronos Quartet discography

References

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