Steve Reich 1965-1995 [Box set]

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In the afterglow of his 60th birthday in 1997, Nonesuch Records delivered Steve Reich and his listeners an immense gift, this 10-CD retrospective of his work for the label, extending from his earliest tape-manipulation pieces to his most recent compositions utilizing samplers and the video artistry of Beryl Korot. Aside from the ear's liquid sense-making when it hears the dense and limber marimbas of Reich's Six Marimbas or his taut, dizzying Piano Phase, there is a physical response almost inevitable in Reich's music. It stuns and holds you. And he knows it. It's Gonna Rain struck an early chord of inventiveness, featuring an African American Pentecostal preacher's sermon and eventually spinning the title phrase into a jangling repetition of single words. Percussion works abound here: Clapping and Drumming stun with their deceptive similarity and warm clarity. Perennial favorite Piano Phase features pianists Nurit Tilles and Eduard Neumann synched up on two pianos and careening at full tilt in unison before their four hands fall out of time and phrase with each other, only to realign in a powerful swooping demonstration of energy and focus. The latter CDs hold abundant delights, many revealing Reich's late-discovered spiritualism and Judaica: Different Trains' examination of the Holocaust; Tehillim's shimmering Hebrew texts sung with fascinating choral power; Proverb's invocation of Perotin. Closing the set are recent pieces: Nagoya Marimbas, and the sampler-rich City Life and The Cave. --Andrew Bartlett

Steve Reich 1965-1995, Music, Jay Clayton, Hugo Munday, Donald Palma, Jeanne LeBlanc, Evan Ziporyn, Leslie Scott, Steve Reich, Bradley Lubman, Michael Tilson Thomas, Paul Hillier, Reinbert de Leeuw, Ben Harms, Ben Harris, Bob Becker, Garry Kvistad, Gary Schall, Glen Velez, James Preiss, Russ Hartenberger, Steve Reich, Thad Wheeler, Bang On A Can, Colorado Quartet, Double Edge, Manhattan Marimba Quartet, Percussion Group The Hague, Schoenberg Ensemble, Steve Reich Ensemble, Pat Metheny, Ananda Goud, Yvonne Benschop, Brooklyn Philharmonic [members of], London Symphony Orchestra, Edmund Niemann, Nurit Tilles, Nurit Tillis, Clive Malabar, Frank Ricotti, Neil Percy, Ray Northcott, Simon Carrington, Phillip Bush, Mort Silver, Barbara Borden, Cheryl Bensman Rowe, Cheryl Bensman, Cheryl Bensman Rowe

Average customer rating: Classic, but not the definitive... Essential

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Tracks:

1. Come Out
2. Piano Phase
3. It's Gonna Rain, Part I
4. It's Gonna Rain, Part II
5. Four Organs

Tracks:

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4

Tracks:

1. Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ
2. Clapping Music
3. Six Marimbas

Tracks:

1. Music For 18 Musicians: Pulses
2. Music For 18 Musicians: Section I
3. Music For 18 Musicians: Section II
4. Music For 18 Musicians: Section IIIA
5. Music For 18 Musicians: Section IIIB
6. Music For 18 Musicians: Section IV
7. Music For 18 Musicians: Section V
8. Music For 18 Musicians: Sectionn VI
9. Music For 18 Musicians: Section VII
10. Music For 18 Musicians: Section VIII
11. Music For 18 Musicians: Section IX
12. Music For 18 Musicians: Section X
13. Music For 18 Musicians: Section XI
14. Music For 18 Musicians: Pulses

Tracks:

1. Eight Lines
2. Tehillim: Part 1: Fast
3. Tehillim: Part 2: Fast
4. Tehillim: Part 3: Slow
5. Tehillim: Part 4: Fast

Tracks:

1. The Desert Music: First Movement
2. The Desert Music: Second Movement
3. The Desert Music: Third Movement, Part One
4. The Desert Music: Third Movement, Part Two
5. The Desert Music: Third Movement, Part Three
6. The Desert Music: Fourth Movement
7. The Desert Music: Fifth Movement

Tracks:

1. Works: New York Counterpoinnt: Fast
2. Works: New York Counterpoint: Slow
3. Works: New York Counterpoint: Fast
4. Works: Sextet: 1st Movement
5. Works: Sextet: 2nd Movement
6. Works: Sextet: 3rd Movement
7. Works: Sextet: 4th Movement
8. Works: Sextet: 5th Movement
9. Works: I. Strings
10. Works: II. Percussion
11. Works: III. Winds And Brass
12. Works: IV. Full Orchestra

Tracks:

1. Works: Different Trains - America - Before The War
2. Works: Different Trains - Europe - During The War
3. Works: Different Trains - After The War
4. Works: Electric Counterpoint - Fast
5. Works: Electric Counterpoint - Slow
6. Works: Electric Counterpoint - Fast
7. Works: Movement I
8. Works: Movement II
9. Works: Movement III

Tracks:

1. The Cave: Typing Music
2. The Cave: Who Is Abraham?
3. The Cave: Who Is Ishmael?
4. The Cave: Genesis XVIII
5. The Cave: Genesis XXI
6. The Cave: The Casting Out Of Ishmael And Hager
7. The Cave: Machpelah
8. The Cave: Genesis XXV
9. The Cave: Interior Of The Cave
10. The Cave: Surah 3
11. The Cave: El Khalil Commentary
12. The Cave: Who Is Abraham?W
13. The Cave: Who Is Sarah?
14. The Cave: Who Is Hagar?
15. The Cave: Who Is Ishmael?
16. The Cave: The Binding Of Isaac
17. The Cave: The Cave Of Machpelah

Tracks:

1. Proverb
2. Nagoya Marimbas
3. City Life: 'Check It Out'
4. City Life: Pile Driver - alarms
5. City Life: 'It's Been A Honeymoon - Can't Take No Mo'
6. City Life: Heartbeats - Boats & Buoys
7. City Life: 'Heavy Smoke'

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Customer Reviews:

Classic, but not the definitive..........2004-05-20

Essential.......1999-02-24

This box set gives the listener all of Reich's major works. I can't even attempt to describe them individually, but every one of these 10 CDs is compelling. For the totally uninitiated, take out "Music for 18 Musicians" (presented here in a crystalline new recording) to get an idea of what the core of this guy is all about. From there, you might want to listen to "Different Trains," "Electric Counterpoint" and "Six Marimbas" to get an idea of the pointillistic pulse minimalism that Reich contributed to the world. The earlier material is the more challenging, exploring the subtleties of rythym, phase relationships between sounds and shifting timings. Among these, the new recording of "Four Organs" is just outstanding.

Reich's works, along with the early works of Terry Riley and Philip Glass, form the foundation of an enormous edifice that has grown of music that attempts to return to its essential and hypnotic roots. With this box set, one of those pylons becomes clear.

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