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Composer Steve Reich, whose new album, Jacob's Ladder / Traveler's Prayer, and the 27-disc box set Collected Works, were recently released on Nonesuch, stopped by for the Nonesuch Selects video series, in which artists visit the Nonesuch office, pick some of their favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. He chose music by Kronos Quartet, John Adams, and Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion, and from the Nonesuch Explorer Series in Bali and Ghana.
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The twenty-seven disc box set Steve Reich Collected Works features music recorded during Steve Reich's forty years on the label—six decades of his compositions, including first recordings of his two latest works, Jacob’s Ladder and Traveler’s Prayer—plus two extensive booklets with new essays by Robert Hurwitz, Michael Tilson Thomas, Russell Hartenberger, Judith Sherman, and Nico Muhly, and a comprehensive listener’s guide by Timo Andres. Nonesuch made its first record with Steve Reich in 1985; he was signed exclusively to the label that year. Collected Works includes twenty-four discs of Nonesuch recordings and three from other labels.
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Explore the story behind Steve Reich's Different Trains. The groundbreaking work, written for Kronos Quartet and first recorded on Nonesuch, was declared by the New York Times as "a work of such originality that 'breakthrough' seems the only possible description." Pitchfork called it a "late-career masterpiece" and placed the album among the 200 Best of the 1980s. Video by Robert Edridge-Waks. Excerpts from Steve Reich interview courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes, boosey.com
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