Steve Reich: Phases [Box Set]
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Composer: Steve ReichConductor: Reinbert de Leeuw
Conductor: Bradley Lubman
Conductor: Grant Gershon
Conductor: Paul Hillier
Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas
Performer: Steve Reich and Musicians
Performer: Schoenberg Ensemble
Performer: Bang On A Can
Performer: Los Angeles Master Chorale
Performer: Members of the Steve Reich Ensemble
Performer: Members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic
Performer: Yvonne Benschop
Performer: Ananda Goud
Performer: Steve Reich
Performer: Barbara Borden
Performer: Tannie Willemstijn
Performer: Cheryl Bensman Rowe
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Music For 18 Musicians
- Different Trains
- Tehillim
- Eight Lines
- (You Are) Variations
- New York Counterpoint
- Cello Counterpoint
- Electric Counterpoint
- Triple Quartet
- Come Out
- Proverb
- The Desert Music
- Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ
- Drumming
Music reviews of Steve Reich: Phases [Box Set]
Music Review: A Steve Reich 70th Birthday Present from Nonesuch
Rating: 5 Stars
If you are a big Steve Reich fan, you probably already have most or all of these recordings. These are not rarities, PHASES is not for collectors -- this 5-disc box is aimed at those of us who have been curious, but not convinced enough to buy multiple Reich recordings. I, for instance, consider MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS to be a masterpiece of late 20th century music (the original ECM recording), but I haven't been nearly as impressed by the other Reich music I've heard. I consider this box to be a gift, and now I have finally satisfied my curiosity about one of the most important and influential composers of our time.
Here we have, for less than the price of any two of these discs as previously marketed, the pioneering COME OUT (1966), a 1987 recording of the 1971 piece DRUMMING, a 1996 recording of the 1976 masterpiece MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS by the Steve Reich Ensemble, the original recordings of DIFFERENT TRAINS (1988) and the TRIPLE QUARTET (1999/2000) with the Kronos Quartet, the original recordings of DESERT MUSIC (1984) and TEHILLIM (1993) for choir and orchestra, ELECTRONIC COUNTERPOINT (1987) with Pat Metheny, PROVERB from 1998, and the entire YOU ARE (VARIATIONS) album of 2005, and more.
I was not initially that impressed with the vocal compositions, but they grow on me with repeated listening. Minimalism doesn't seem to work in the string quartet format (judging from Reich and Glass), though the TRIPLE QUARTET was better live when I heard the Kronos Quartet perform it at LSU in Baton Rouge in the spring of 2005. The concept of DIFFERENT TRAINS is powerful, the composition less so. COME OUT is a stunning work which ends, after the phase shifts separate, with a throbbing electronic rhythm track. DRUMMING is the next best thing to 18 MUSICIANS. I always assumed it was all drums, but as it turns out, it also includes marimbas, glockenspiels and vocals, which are added in turn to stunning effect.
You may know that Reich's music since the 1980s has been strongly shaped by his Jewish faith -- did you know he is an Orthodox Jew? Does it strike you as intriguing that such a radical, innovative composer is devoutly Orthodox? It certainly makes me even more interested in his music. (Thanks to David Schiff and his 11/6/06 article in The Nation for this insight.)
Happy Birthday, Steve, and shalom -- peace.
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