tracks

Cat O'nine Tails (1988)
The Dead Man (1990) 13 Specimen For String Quartet
Variations
Sonatas
Manifesto
Fanfare
Meditation
Rondo
Romance
Blossoms
Fantasy
Folio
Nocturne
Etude
Prelude
Memento Mori (1992) (Ignotium Per Ignotius - The Unknown By Way Of The More Unknown)
Kol Nidre (1996)

notes

Recorded at Avatar, NYC, December 1998, January, April and May 1999.
Mastered at Foothill Digital.
Special thanks to Zoe Thrall.

"Writing string quartets is an exciting challenge and when the Kronos Quartet first asked me for a quartet I took the challenge very seriously. The result has been (to date now) four quartets, three commissioned by Kronos and one written in a flash of inspiration during the days I was composing the Masada songbook.

"Each quartet is very different in form, conception, and tone. In a certain sense Cat o' Nine Tails is about the <b>visual</b>, The Dead Man is about the <b>sensual</b>, Memento Mori the <b>emotional</b> and Kol Nidre the <b>spiritual</b>. But they also share elements in common and it is interesting to hear the overlap and development across the eight years in which these pieces were written."
John Zorn

credits

Cello – Erik Friedlander
Composed By – John Zorn
Design – Ikue Mori
Ensemble – The Zorn Quartet,
Executive-Producer [Associate Producer] – Kazunori Sugiyama
Illustration – Hans Bellmer
Mastered By – Allan Tucker
Producer – John Zorn
Recorded By – Jim Anderson
Viola – Lois Martin
Violin [First] – Joyce Hammann
Violin [Second] – Mark Feldman

companies

Recorded At – Avatar Studios
Mastered At – Foothill Digital

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