art direction, design Frank Olinsky cello Joan Jeanrenaud cover Matt Mahurin tracks 1, 7 engineer Bob Edwards tracks 3 to 5 engineer Craig Silvey tracks 4, 6 engineer Joseph Chilorio tracks 2 to 7 engineer Judith Sherman tracks 2 engineer Paul Zinman tracks 4 to 5 engineer [assistant engineer] Chris Haynes tracks 7 engineer [assistant engineer] Craig Silvey tracks 4 engineer [assistant engineer] Mark Donahue tracks 1, 3 engineer [assistant engineer] Tom Luekens executive-producer Robert Hurwitz liner notes Brooke Gladstone mixed by [additional mixing, assistant engineer] David Merrill mixed by [additional mixing, engineer] Ben Rizzi tracks 7 mixed by [additional mixing] Adam Abeshouse recorded by [recordings of male choir and boy soprano provided by] Giya Kancheli viola Hank Dutt violin David Harrington violin John Sherba Record Company Elektra Entertainment Phonographic Copyright (p) Elektra Entertainment Copyright (c) Elektra Entertainment Made By WEA Manufacturing Recorded At Skywalker Sound Recorded At American Academy Of Arts And Letters Recorded At Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA Mastered At Soundbyte Productions Made By Specialty Records Corporation Recorded 1992-1994 at Skywalker Sound, Marin County, California; The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts. Mastered at Soundbyte, New York, New York.
Recordings of male choir and boy soprano for Night Prayers provided by Giya Kancheli
Kongerei was arranged for the Throat Singers of Tuva and Kronos. Mugam Sayagi, Quartet No. 4, A Cool Wind is Blowing and Night Prayers were written for Kronos. K'VAKARAT was written for Mikhail Alexandrovich and Kronos.
Mugam Sayagi was commissioned by Nora Norden. Quartet No. 4 was commissioned by Mrs. Ralph I. Dorfman, the Barbican Centre and Theatre de la Ville. K'VAKARAT was commissioned by the Wexner Center Foundation on the occasion of the dedication of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Night Prayers was commissioned by the Beigler Trust and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Special thanks to Angel Stoyanof, Gerard McBurney, Ted Levin, Edward Dumanis, Hans-Ulrich Dufflek, Laurel Fay, Susan Feder, Lucina Aglabian-Hubbard, Andrew Kurowski, Peter Clancy, Carol Yaple, Albert Lee, Karine Beznicki, Scott Fraser, Jay Cloidt, Alice Wingwall, Chuck Helm and Wally Chappell.