Steve Reich: Works 1965-1995 is a 1997 10-CD box set of compositions by composer Steve Reich

Steve Reich

Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich is an American composer who together with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass is a pioneering composer of minimal music...

 released by Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Records.-Company history:Nonesuch was founded in 1964 by Jac Holzman to produce "fine records at the same price as a trade paperback", which would be half the price of a normal LP...

 as part of Reich's 60th birthday celebration. Described as, "monumental... essential... beautiful", it includes full track and personnel listing, career chronology, appreciative notes (such as essays by John Adams and Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas is an American conductor, pianist and composer. He is currently music director of the San Francisco Symphony, and artistic director of the New World Symphony Orchestra.-Early years:...

), a new interview, and "his most famous works" with the "curious exclusions" of Violin Phase

Violin Phase

Violin Phase, written by minimalist composer Steve Reich in October 1967, is an example of his phasing technique previously used in Piano Phase in which the music itself is created not by the instruments but by interactions of temporal variations on an original melody...

, Music for Pieces of Wood and Vermont Counterpoint

Vermont Counterpoint

Vermont Counterpoint for amplified flute and tape is a minimalist composition written by American composer Steve Reich.Composer's Notes...

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Track listing

Disc 1

Come Out

Come Out (Reich)

Come Out is a 1966 piece by American composer Steve Reich. He was asked to write this piece to be performed at a benefit for the retrial of the Harlem Six, six black youths arrested for committing a murder during the Harlem Riot of 1964 for which only one of the six was responsible...

Piano Phase

Piano Phase

Piano Phase is a piece of music written in 1967 by the minimalist composer Steve Reich for two pianos. It is his first attempt at applying his "phasing" technique, which he had previously used in the tape pieces It's Gonna Rain and Come Out , to live performance.Reich's phasing works generally...

It's Gonna Rain

It's Gonna Rain

It's Gonna Rain is a minimalist musical composition for magnetic tape written by Steve Reich in 1965. It lasts approximately 17 minutes and 50 seconds. It was Reich's first major work and a landmark in minimalism and process music.-Analysis:...

Four Organs

Four Organs

Four Organs is a work for four electronic organs and maraca, composed by Steve Reich in January 1970.-Music:The four organs, harmonically expound a dominant eleventh chord , dissecting the chord by playing parts of it sequentially while the chord slowly increases in duration from a single 1/8 note...

(new recording)

Disc 2

Drumming

Drumming (Reich)

Drumming is a piece by minimalist composer Steve Reich, dating from 1970-1971. Reich began composition of the work after a short visit to Africa and observing music and musical ensembles there, especially under the Anlo Ewe master drummer Gideon Alorwoyie in Ghana. His visit was cut short after...

Disc 3

Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ

Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ

Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ is a 1973 composition by American composer Steve Reich. The piece is scored for glockenspiels, marimbas, metallophone , women's voices, and organ, and runs about 17 minutes....

Clapping Music

Clapping Music

Clapping Music is a minimalist piece written by Steve Reich in 1972. It is written for two performers and is performed entirely by clapping....

Six Marimbas

Disc 4

Music for 18 Musicians

Music for 18 Musicians

Music for 18 Musicians is a work of musical minimalism composed by Steve Reich during 1974-1976. Its world premiere was on April 24, 1976 at Town Hall, New York. Following this, a recording of the piece was released by ECM New Series...

(new recording)

Disc 5

Eight Lines

Eight Lines

Eight Lines, a work by American minimalist composer Steve Reich, is a rescoring of his earlier Octet. In addition to the original scoring for Octet , Reich added another string quartet...

(new recording)

Tehillim

Tehillim (Reich)

Tehillim is a piece of music by American composer Steve Reich, written in 1981.The title comes from the Hebrew word for "psalms", and the work is the first to reflect Reich's Jewish heritage...

Disc 6

The Desert Music

The Desert Music

The Desert Music is a work of music for voices and orchestra composed by Steve Reich based on texts by William Carlos Williams. It consists of five movements, and in both its tempi and arrangement of thematic material, the piece is in a characteristic arch form...

Disc 7

New York Counterpoint (new recording)

Sextet

Sextet (Reich)

Sextet is a composition by Steve Reich. As the title indicates, it is written for an ensemble of four percussionists and two keyboardists. The percussionists play three marimbas, two vibraphones, two bass drums, crotales, sticks, and tam-tam. The keyboardists play both pianos and synthesizers set...

Four Sections

Disc 8

Different Trains

Different Trains

Different Trains is a three-movement piece for string quartet and tape written by Steve Reich in 1988. It won a Grammy Award in 1990 for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.The work's three movements have the following titles:...

Electric Counterpoint

Electric Counterpoint

Electric Counterpoint is a minimalist composition written by American composer Steve Reich. The piece consists of three movements, "Fast", "Slow", and "Fast"...

Three Movements

Disc 9

The Cave

Disc 10

Proverb

Proverb (Reich)

Proverb is a musical composition by Steve Reich for three sopranos, two tenors, two vibraphones, and two electric organs. It sets a text by Ludwig Wittgenstein. It was written in 1995 and was originally intended for The Proms and the Utrecht Early Music Festival...

Nagoya Marimbas

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