Track Listing
Click tracks with speaker icon to listen| 1 | Come Out (1966) | 12:54 |
| 2 | Piano Phase (1967) | 20:26 |
| 3 | Clapping Music (1972) | 4:39 |
| 4 | It's Gonna Rain (1965): Part I | 7:49 |
| 5 | It's Gonna Rain (1965): Part II | 9:47 |
News & Reviews
- Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Steve Reich's "Double Sextet / 2x5" May Be "The Downtown Version of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane," Says Sequenza 21
The new album featuring the first recordings of Steve Reich's Double Sextet and 2x5 is due out on Nonesuch in just under three weeks. "Beautifully poised throughout," says the BBC, "Double Sextet stands as arguably one of Reich’s finest works." Sequenza 21 calls the album "an intergenerational summit—minimalist elder statesman meets post-minimal/totalist ace performers—that, in terms of importance, is more or less the Downtown version of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane."
- Thursday, July 1, 2010
Steve Reich’s Pulitzer Prize–Winning "Double Sextet" and "2x5" Due Out on Nonesuch September 14
Nonesuch releases an album with two Steve Reich compositions—Double Sextet and 2x5—on September 14, 2010. The Pulitzer Prize–winning piece Double Sextet, performed here by eighth blackbird, has been cited "among the finest pieces of our time" by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Bang on a Can perform 2x5, which premiered at the Manchester International Festival on a double bill with Kraftwerk and expands Reich's musical palate with rock instrumentation.
About this Album
These groundbreaking pieces from the mid-‘60s / early ‘70s, which utilize tape loops and Reich’s pioneering “phasing” technique, not only inspired the minimalist movement but influenced generations of sound-sampling pop and electronic artists. The Washington Post calls them “absolutely spellbinding.”
Credits
MUSICIANS
Nurit Tilles, Edmund Niemann, pianos (2)
Russ Hartenberger, Steve Reich, hand claps (3)
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Judith Sherman and Steve Reich
Recorded May 1986 (2) and May 1987 (3) at RCA Studio A, New York City
Tracks 2, 3 mixed and edited by Steve Reich and Judith Sherman; engineered by Paul Goodman
Mastering: Robert C. Ludwig
Art direction and design: Carin Goldberg
Cover photograph by Landry/Girouard
Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz
