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Steve Reich – Radio Rewrite (2014)
Over the past 50 years, composer Steve Reich’s music has had a powerful impact – not only on the contemporary classical world, but also on legions of rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, and electronic musicians....
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Ensemble Signal – Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians (2015)
As more ensembles perform and record Steve Reich‘s Music for 18 Musicians, its status as a minimalist masterpiece is increasingly affirmed. Ensemble Signal‘s 2015 release on Harmonia Mundi is one of...
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Massimo Menotti – Minimalist Guitar Music: Works by Philip Glass and Steve...
What you have here are not minimalist works composed for guitar, but rather pieces arranged for the instrument of Italian guitarist Massimo Menotti (apparently no relation to Gian Carlo). All three are...
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Third Coast Percussion – Third Coast Percussion & Steve Reich (2016)
Percussion music represents an important strand in the output of minimalist composer Steve Reich, and this release by the ensemble Third Coast Percussion, whose members cheerfully admit they weren’t...
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London Symphony Orchestra Percussion Ensemble – Steve Reich: Sextet; Clapping...
Contents aside, this release by the London Symphony Orchestra’s LSO Live series is noteworthy for using the live-recording format intelligently: it offers a kind of concert that wouldn’t really work in...
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Ensemble Signal – Steve Reich: Double Sextet / Radio Rewrite (2016)
The 80th anniversary of minimalist pioneer Steve Reich’s birth in 2016 has resulted in strong recordings of his music. This one by New York- based Ensemble Signal, which already had a successful...
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Steve Reich / Terry Riley – Six Pianos / Keyboard Study #1 (2016)
The 1970s was Steve Reich’s decade; although he had already completed groundbreaking phase pieces It’s Gonna Rain, Come Out, and Violin Phase by the end of the ‘60s, the ten-year run that followed was...
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Steve Reich – The ECM Recordings (2016)
There was a time when Steve Reich had few champions. Now he wins the Pulitzer Prize, collaborates with Jonny Greenwood, and on various anniversaries of the composer’s birth, concert halls the world...
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Kristjan Järvi & MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra – Steve Reich: Duet (2016)
The music of Steve Reich has been heard in various venues, including electronic music dance clubs, but the full symphony orchestra treatment has been rare. That is changing, however, with the tenure of...
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Colin Currie Group / International Contemporary Ensemble – Steve Reich: Pulse...
Steve Reich turned 80 in 2016, and continues to be both prolific and high-profile, producing at least one major work a year. He was a pioneer of the minimalist movement in the 1960s and has since seen...
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Erik Hall – Music for 18 Musicians (2020)
Composed between 1974 and 1976 and premiering at the Town Hall in New York City in April 1976, Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians was a milestone in minimalist composition. It marked a quantum leap...
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Holst-Sinfonietta & Klaus Simon – Steve Reich: Eight Lines; City Life; Music...
American music often receives more sympathetic performances in Europe than it does at home, but until recently, that has not been true of the music of the minimalist school of Steve Reich, Philip...
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Ensemble Intercontemporain/George Jackson – Steve Reich: Reich/Richter (2022)
Nonesuch Records releases the first recording of Steve Reich Reich/Richter, performed by Ensemble intercontemporain and conducted by George Jackson. The composition was originally written to be...
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Mivos Quartet – Steve Reich: The String Quartets (2023)
Beethoven wrote sixteen string quartets, Mozart twenty-three, and Haydn sixty-eight. With only three to his name, Steve Reich might seem an underachiever by comparison; what really matters, however, is...
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Colin Currie Group & Synergy Vocals – Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians (2023)
Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, completed in 1976, is well represented on recordings, including in two versions by Reich himself. Yet there is always room for as fine a performance as this. An...
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