Steve Reich has a remarkable arrangement for a composer in that he is an exclusive artist for Nonesuch and has been so for more than two decades. Back in 1996, when Reich celebrated his 60th birthday, Nonesuch issued a 10-CD box set of "everything" -- all of the works in the Warner Classics vaults that he had recorded, including some new at the ...
Since minimalism is well-established as a major movement of the late twentieth century and widely practiced today, it may be surprising to find that John Adams' Grand Pianola (1982) ever provoked controversy. Yet its premiere riled the academic and avant-garde establishment, perhaps less for its explicit adoption of repetitive and additive ...
The program notes for this CD begin with a quote from British visual artist Michael Craig Martin: "Minimalism presents the viewer with objects of charged neutrality...objects that are without any hierarchy of interest...objects that reveal everything about themselves, but little about the artist." If that can be taken as an adequate definition of ...
Canadian guitar ensemble Forestare takes its name from a Latin verb meaning "to create a forest," and founder Alexandre Éthier sees a kind of continuum between most of the music it performs -- music that is inspired by or somehow honors nature -- and the trees from which the instruments are made. Therefore, there is an extracurricular agenda, if ...
This 2004 release from Orange Mountain Music of works for two pianos by Steve Reich and Philip Glass is a fairly representative package, but because of its brevity and narrow musical interest, it may only attract the most die-hard fans of minimalism. Both Reich and Glass have instantly recognizable musical signatures, and these pieces are easy-to ...
Even if one fully comprehends Steve Reich's minimalist procedures, admires his great wealth of invention, and feels sympathy for his artistic and philosophical aims, it is sometimes difficult to settle comfortably into some of his pieces. You Are (Variations) for chorus and ensemble (2004) is multilayered, kinetic, harmonically rich, and hypnotic, ...
Steve Reich's Different Trains brought together various strands of his musical thinking -- phase shifting, sampling of voices, Jewish experience, and the combination of live instruments with prerecorded sound, to name some -- in a highly personal synthesis that is both moving and compactly powerful. The "different trains" of the title are trains ...
Much of Steve Reich's mature work is conceived in layers, and many of his pieces since the 1980s are composed for live players accompanied by multiple prerecorded parts; for example, in works such as Electric Counterpoint or Vermont Counterpoint, Reich emphasizes the vertical aspect of interlocking parts, rather than linear procedures involving ...
If Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians is simply described in terms of its materials and organization -- 11 chords followed by 11 pieces built on those chords -- then it might seem utterly dry and monotonous. The actual music, though, is far from lackluster. When this recording was released in 1978, the impact on the new music scene was immediate ...
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