Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians will receive its first Scottish performance in a decade when conductor Thomas Adès leads the London Sinfonietta and Synergy Vocals in a performance of the piece at Glasgow's City Halls on Sunday. Reich spoke with BBC Radio 3's Robert Worby about his music and the inspiration behind the piece for a short film by the London Sinfonietta. Watch it here.
Steve Reich's seminal 1976 piece Music for 18 Musicians will receive its first Scottish performance in a decade when conductor Thomas Adès leads the London Sinfonietta and Synergy Vocals in a performance of the piece at City Halls' Grand Hall in Glasgow this Sunday, February 13. The groups will give an encore performance of the program at Symphony Hall in Birmingham, England, on March 11, and will perform Reich's Tehillim at Southbank Centre in London on February 18.
In advance of these performances, Reich spoke with BBC Radio 3's Robert Worby about his music and the inspiration behind Music for 18 Musicians for a short film produced by the London Sinfonietta, posted below. The film also includes behind-the-scenes footage of the London Sinfonietta and Synergy Vocals with the composer in rehearsal for a performance of Music for 18 Musicians in 2009. For more information on the concerts, visit londonsinfonietta.org.uk.
You can hear Steve Reich and Musicians' own performance of Music for 18 Musicians on the 1998 Grammy Award-winning Nonesuch recording (pictured above), available in the Nonesuch Store with high-quality, 320 kbps MP3s of the complete album included at checkout.
Watch the London Sinfonietta film here:
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Steve Reich's latest Nonesuch album, released in September 2010, pairs the Pulitzer Prize-winning piece Double Sextet, performed by eighth blackbird, with 2x5, performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars. "Rock fans looking to get into something a little more 'classical' might start here," writes the Hartford Advocate's Michael Hamad in a new review of what he calls this "beautifully recorded" album.
"Both compositions are artful and serious," says Hamad, "rhythmically energetic in a way fans of popular music, or Reich's music, for that matter, have gotten accustomed to."
Read the album review at hartfordadvocate.com.
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To peruse Steve Reich's complete Nonesuch catalog, head to the Nonesuch Store, where you'll find, among other recordings, the London Sinfonietta's performance of Reich's Variations for Vibes, Pianos, & Strings, led by conductor Alan Pierson, on the 2008 album Daniel Variations, and Synergy Vocals' performance on Three Tales, the composer's 2003 CD/DVD collaboration with video artist Beryl Korot.
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