Reich, Steve

Steve Reich: Drumming, Parts I-IV; Six Pianos; Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices & Organ / Russ Hartenberger, Bob Becker, James Preiss

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2012-07-31

Works: Steve Reich: Drumming, for 2 female voices, piccolo, 4 pairs of bongos, 3 marimbas & 3 glockenspiels; Six Pianos; Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, for 3 female voices, 3 marimbas, 3 gl...
Performers: Barbara, Joan La; Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Chambers, Steve; Clayton, Jay; Ferchen, Timothy; Harms, Ben; Hartenberger, Russ; Jarrett, Janice; Preiss, James; Reich, Steve; Velez, Glen

Drumming is a classic of hope and achievement. Coming after a few years - the late sixties - when so many old barriers had fallen,...continue...
Recording information: Studio Rahlstedt, Hamburg, Germany (01/1974)....continue...

111 More Classic Tracks [Limited Edition]

6 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2010-11-09

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 10 in E minor, Op. 93; Adagio and Allegretto (Elegy and Polka), for string quartet; Franz Liszt: Concert Etudes (2) for Piano, S 145; Fr...
Performers: Alarie, Pierrette; Ambrosini, Jean-Claude; Anda, Geza; Andre, Maurice; Antonietti, Jean; Argerich, Martha [Piano]; Askenase, Stefan; Baldwin, Dalton; Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Battle, Kat...
Conductors: Abbado, Claudio; Ancerl, Karel; Stadlmair, Hans; Nelson, John; Bernstein, Leonard; Blech, Leo; Böhm, Karl; Previn, Andre; Boulez, Pierre; Karajan, Herbert von; Marcon, Andrea; Pletnev, Mikhail; ...
Ensemble: ; Early Music Consort of London

111 More Classic Tracks carries on from where 111 Classic Tracks of 2009 left off. In another mesmerizing journey through the history of Deutsche Grammophon's...continue...

Four Organs Phase Patterns

1 CD / Felmay Records / 2009-06-02

Works: Steve Reich: Four Organs; Phase Patterns
Performers: Chambers, Steve; Gibson, Jon [Avant-Garde]; Glass, Philip; Murphy, Arthur; Reich, Steve

A seminal 1970 release on Wergo, this is a prime example of Reich's "phase" phase, music which, in its audacious logic, seems to unfold out of itself. The early minimalist experiments of Glass and Re...continue...

Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

1 Super Audio CD / Innova / 2007-10-08

Works: Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Performers: Reich, Steve
Conductors: Ryan, Bill
Ensemble: Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble

"Whereas the 1978 original might sound like one is standing to one side of the tarmac, watching the jets arrive at daybreak, leader Bill Ryan...continue...
Recording information: Royce Auditorium, St. Cecilia's Music Center, Grand Rap....continue...

Reich: Remixed 2006

1 CD / Warner Classics / 2006-11-07

Works: Steve Reich: Work(s); Come Out
Performers: Hamm, Daniel; Reich, Steve; Ruotsi, Ruoho; Smoke, Alex
Conductors:
Ensemble: Four Tet

Steve Reich - Phases (A Nonesuch Retrospective)

5 CD / Warner Classics / 2006-09-26

Works: Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians; Different Trains, for double string quartet & tape; Tehillim, for 3 sopranos, alto, winds, strings, percussion & keyboards; Eight Lines; You Are (Variations), for...
Performers: Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Beiser, Maya; Benschop, Yvonne; Borden, Barbara; Can, Bang On A; Goud, Ananda; Hartenberger, Russ; Kronos Quartet; Kvistad, Garry; Los Angeles Master Chorale; Metheny, Pat; ...
Conductors: ; Leeuw, Reinbert de; Lubman, Bradley; Gershon, Grant; Hillier, Paul; Thomas, Michael Tilson
Ensemble: Bang on a Can; Los Angeles Master Chorale; Members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic (Members); Members of the Steve Reich Ensemble (Members); Schoenberg Ensemble; Steve Reich & Musicians

"When the history book is written on the minimalist scene that emerged in the 1960s, it's likely that composer Steve Reich will emerge as the...continue...

From the Kitchen Archives Vol 2 - Steve Reich Live 1977

1 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2005-07-12

Works: Steve Reich: Six Pianos; Pendulum Music, for 3 or more microphones, amps & loudspeakers; Violin Phase; Music for Pieces of Wood, for 5 pairs of tuned claves; Drumming, for 2 female voices, piccolo, 4...
Performers: Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Chambers, Steve; Clayton, Jay; Cohen, Richard [clarinet]; Fraley, Pamela; Guibbory, Shem; Hartenberger, Russ; Preiss, James; Reich, Steve; Schall, Gary; Tieghem, David Van; ...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Steve Reich

Steve Reich is one of the foremost composers of our time and an important 'first generation' minimalist composer who has performed at The Kitchen Center...continue...
Personnel: Steve Reich (whistling, piano, marimba, glockenspiel, bongos, claves); Pamela Fraley, Jay Clayton (vocals); Steve Chambers, James Preiss, Glen Velez (whistling, piano, marimba, glockenspiel...continue...

Echo 20/21 Reich: Drumming

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2003-11-11

Works: Steve Reich: Drumming, for 2 female voices, piccolo, 4 pairs of bongos, 3 marimbas & 3 glockenspiels
Performers: Barbara, Joan La; Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Cardew, Cornelius; Chambers, Steve; Clayton, Jay; Ferchen, Timothy; Harms, Ben; Hartenberger, Russ; Preiss, James; Reich, Steve; Scott, Lesley; Velez, Glen

"Drumming is an immense sound machine which, while holding its ensemble of percussionists and vocalists in a firm grip, also gives them the means to...continue...
Personnel: Steve Reich (marimba, glockenspiel, drums); Glen Velez (whistling, marimba, glockenspiel, drums); Ben Harms, Bob Becker , Russ Hartenberger, James Preiss (marimba, glockenspiel, drums); Cor...continue...

Steve Reich: Tehillim

1 CD / ECM / 2000-04-18

Works: Steve Reich: Tehillim, for 3 sopranos, alto, winds, strings, percussion & keyboards
Performers: Armstrong, Rebecca; Bardekoff, Ellen; Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Blackwell, Virgil; Burdick, Vivian; Chausow, Robert; Clayton, Jay; Finckel, Chris; Guibbory, Shem; Hartenberger, Russ; Kvistad, Garry; ...
Conductors: Manahan, George
Ensemble: Steve Reich

Personnel: Steve Reich (percussion); Pamela Wood, Rebecca Armstrong (soprano); Robert Shausow, Robert Chausow, Shem Guibbory (violin); Ruth Siegler (viola); Christopher Finckel (cello); Virgil Blackwe...continue...

Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

1 CD / ECM / 2000-04-18

Works: Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Performers: Armstrong, Rebecca; Arnold, Elizabeth; Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Blackwell, Virgil; Chambers, Steve; Clayton, Jay; Cohen, Richard [clarinet]; Fraley, Pamela; Guibbory, Shem; Hartenberger, Russ; Ishii...

Reich: Music for 18 Musicians / Ensemble Modern

1 CD / RCA Records / 1999-04-13

Works: Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Performers: Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Becker, Kristi; Bocker, Eva; Canning, Carol; Diry, Roland; Hartenberger, Russ; Haslam, Micaela; Holton, Ruth; Kobler, Benjamin; Kretzschmar, Hermann; Kruerke, Daniel; Mistry...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt)

"[Comparing Reich with Beethoven] Both open new expressive vistas to patient listeners, do not know the meaning of compromise, and are deadly serious in their...continue...
Personnel: Micaela Haslam, Ruth Holton, Olive Simpson (soprano); Jagdish Mistry (violin); Eva Böcker (cello); Hermann Kretzschmar, Kristi Becker, Philipp Vandré, Ueli Wiget, Daniel Krüe...continue...

Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

1 CD / Nonesuch Import / 1998-03-31

Works: Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Performers: Armstrong, Rebecca; Beckenstein, Marion; Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Bush, Phillip; Clayton, Jay; Ferchen, Timothy; Hartenberger, Russ; Kvistad, Garry; LeBlanc, Jeanne; Lim, Elizabeth; Niemann, Edmund;...

Personnel: Steve Reich (piano, marimba); Jay Clayton (vocals, piano); Marion Beckenstein, Rebecca Armstrong (soprano); Elizabeth Lim, Shem Guibbory (violin); Ken Ishii, Jeanne LeBlanc (cello); Virgil ...continue...

Reich: The Cave / Hillier, Steve Reich Ensemble

2 CD / Warner Classics / 1995-10-24

Works: Steve Reich: The Cave, multimedia theater work for piano, sampling keyboards & voice of Neville Chamberlain
Performers: Atalah, Dahoud; Isaac, Ephraim; Reich, Steve
Conductors: Hillier, Paul
Ensemble: Steve Reich Ensemble

Personnel: Dahoud Atalah (chant).

Recording information: Edison Studio, New York, NY.

The Cave is a December 1994 piece featuring the Steve Reich Ensemble (conducted by Paul Hillier) in ...continue...

The Four Sections/Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ

1 CD / Warner Classics / 1991-01-22

Works: Steve Reich: The Four Sections; Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, for 3 female voices, 3 marimbas, 3 glockenspiels, vi
Performers: Ambush, Pamela Wood; Armstrong, Rebecca; Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Clayton, Jay; Ferchen, Timothy; Hartenberger, Russ; Kvistad, Garry; London Symphony Orchestra; Niemann, Edmund; Preiss, James; Reich...
Conductors: Thomas, Michael Tilson
Ensemble: ; Steve Reich & Musicians

Personnel: Steve Reich (marimba); Nurit Tillis (piano, organ); Edmund Niemann (piano); James Preiss (vibraphone, percussion); Bob Becker , Russ Hartenberger (marimba, percussion); Timothy Ferchen (mar...continue...