Witold Lutosławski: String Quartet

Witold Lutosławski: String Quartet
Studio album by Kronos Quartet
Released	27 January 1991 (1991-01-27)
Genre	Contemporary classical
Label	Nonesuch (#79255)
Producer	Judith Sherman
Kronos Quartet chronology
Black Angels (1990) Witold Lutosławski: String Quartet (1991) Kevin Volans: Hunting:Gathering (199)

Witold Lutosławski: String Quartet is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, containing String Quartet by Polish Witold Lutosławski composed in 1964 and first performed in 1965.[1] This string quartet is an example of aleatory music, that is, music in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and/or some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s). As Gerald Gold noted in a review of the Kronos album in The New York Times, "the Lutoslawski composition integrates notated music with chance performance."[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"String Quartet: Introductory Movement"	Witold Lutosławski	8:33
2.	"String Quartet: Main Movement"	Witold Lutosławski	15:14

Credits

Musicians

• David Harrington – violin
• John Sherba – violin
• Hank Dutt – viola
• Joan Jeanrenaud – cello

Production

• Recorded at Skywalker Sound, Nicasio, California
  • Judith Sherman, Juhani Liimatainen, and Tony Eckert – engineers

See also

• List of 1993 albums

References

1. Stucky, Steven (1981). Lutosławski and his music. Cambridge UP. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-521-22799-5.
2. Gold, Gerald (1991-02-17). "Record Notes; Kronos Takes One to Tango". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-01-27.