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Winter Was Hard

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work

Winter Was Hard presents the Kronos Quartet with a wide choice of music: pieces by Aulis Sallinen, Terry Riley, Arvo Pärt, Anton Webern, John Zorn, John Lurie, Astor Piazzolla, Alfred Schnittke and Samuel Barber. The quartet consists of David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt and Joan Jeanrenaud. Most of the recordings date from November 1987 in Methuen, Massachusetts. The title piece was recorded in January 1988 in a church in San Francisco, with the San Francisco Girls Chorus and a harmonium.

Forbidden Fruit was produced by Zorn, with turntables by Christian Marclay and the voice of Ohta Hiromi. The album placed 11th in the Los Angeles Times Classical Top 25 of 1989. Brian Olewnick calls it a typical early mixture of contemporary music with a downtown edge and twentieth-century classics.

Listening

Listening tip. Listen in Forbidden Fruit to the turntables of Christian Marclay and the voice of Ohta Hiromi: how does that sound on an album of string quartet music?

Track list

  1. 1Winter Was Hard, Op. 20 (Arr. for Chorus, Organ & String Quartet by Kronos Quartet)1:45Apple Music ↗
  2. 2Half-Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight8:22Apple Music ↗
  3. 3Fratres (Realized for String Quartet by Thomas Höfer)9:26Apple Music ↗
  4. 4Six Bagatelles, Op. 94:01Apple Music ↗
  5. 5Forbidden Fruit10:18Apple Music ↗
  6. 6Bella by Barlight2:50Apple Music ↗
  7. 7Four, for Tango4:42Apple Music ↗
  8. 8Quartet No. 319:14Apple Music ↗
  9. 9String Quartet in B Minor, Op. 11: II. Adagio7:16Apple Music ↗
  10. 10A Door Is Ajar (Arr. for String Quartet by Kronos Quartet)0:40Apple Music ↗

30-second previews via Apple Music. Listen to the whole album on Apple Music ↗

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