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Featured Release
Steve Reich
WTC 9/11 / Mallet Quartet / Dance Patterns
WTC 9/11, Reich's reflection on the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, is scored for three string quartets, performed by Kronos Quartet, and pre-recorded voices, including NORAD air traffic controllers, first responders, and women who kept vigil over the dead. The New Yorker says the piece is "indicative of the undiminished powers of a great American artist." The album also includes Reich’s Mallet Quartet, performed by Sō Percussion, and Dance Patterns, featuring members of Steve Reich and Musicians, plus a DVD with a live performance of Mallet Quartet.
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Steve Reich
WTC 9/11 / Mallet Quartet / Dance Patterns
WTC 9/11, Reich's reflection on the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, is scored for three string quartets, performed by Kronos Quartet, and pre-recorded voices, including NORAD air traffic controllers, first responders, and women who kept vigil over the dead. The New Yorker says the piece is "indicative of the undiminished powers of a great American artist." The album also includes Reich’s Mallet Quartet, performed by Sō Percussion, and Dance Patterns, featuring members of Steve Reich and Musicians, plus a DVD with a live performance of Mallet Quartet.
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Steve Reich
2x5 Remixed
This digital EP features the winning entries in the 2010 contest to remix the third movement from Steve Reich's 2x5, as chosen by the composer. As Reich told the BBC World Service, there is a rich history of artists reinterpreting others' work, explaining: “Remixing is a modern take on variations."
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Steve Reich
Double Sextet / 2x5
"Beautifully poised throughout," says the BBC, "Double Sextet stands as arguably one of Reich’s finest works." The Pulitzer Prize–winning piece, performed here by eighth blackbird, has been cited as "among the finest pieces of our time" by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Also on the album, Bang on a Can perform 2x5, which Gramophone calls "Reich’s smartest, most sonically nourishing recording for years."
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Steve Reich
Daniel Variations
"Reich has done it again," writes the Los Angeles Times' Mark Swed. "Daniel Variations is compelling, lofty, universal, and very powerful. Reich has written gorgeous, overwhelming music before, but in this he outdoes himself."
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Steve Reich
Reich: Remixed (2006)
This follow-up EP to Reich Remixed features contributions from Alex Smoke and Four Tet, plus newcomer Ruohi Ruotsi, chosen by Reich himself via a BBC remix competition. Also included: Reich’s 1966 analog precursor to the sampling era, Come Out.
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Steve Reich
Phases (5-CD Set)
Nonesuch Records, Steve Reich’s label since 1985, released its second box set of his works, Phases: A Nonesuch Retrospective, in 2006, in honor of his 70th birthday—timed to coincide with the New York City–wide celebration Steve Reich@70. Included in the five-CD collection are 14 of the revolutionary composer’s best known and most acclaimed pieces, spanning Reich's first 20 years on Nonesuch, including: Music for 18 Musicians, Different Trains, Tehillim, Eight Lines, You Are (Variations), Electric Counterpoint, Come Out, The Desert Music, and Drumming.
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Steve Reich
You Are (Variations)
You Are (Variations) is Reich’s exploration of and meditation on Hebrew spiritual aphorisms. Upon its premiere, the Los Angeles Times exclaimed that the “exceptional score” filled “not just the room but the consciousness.” Includes Cello Counterpoint, written for virtuoso Maya Beiser.
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Steve Reich
Three Tales (with Beryl Korot)
Following Three Tales' 2002 premiere, London's Independent declared that Reich "has written some of his finest music of the last 20 years" for this cautionary multimedia triptych about 20th-century technological advances, created with video artist Beryl Korot. The CD/DVD format of this album is no longer available.
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Steve Reich + Kronos Quartet
Triple Quartet
Kronos Quartet, overdubbed to three times its size, performs the title piece. The Boston Phoenix noted that Triple Quartet illustrates Reich’s “penchant for maximizing melody as well as the advantages of employing technology to widen the instrumental palette.”
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Steve Reich
New York Counterpoint / Eight Lines / Four Organs
New York City’s Bang On A Can Ensemble passionately performs Reich. The Washington Post declared: Eight Lines is “a dazzling and invigorating work” and “no previous recording has ever come close to the clarity and ecstatic intensity” of Four Organs.