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Harry Somers: Chura-Churum; The Merman of Orford

1 CD / Centrediscs / 2010-03-30

Works: Harry Somers: Chura-Churum, for 8 voices, flute, harp, piano & percussion; The Merman of Orford, incidental music
Performers: Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Coulombe, Alain [Bass Vocal]; Cram, Robert; Deboer, Michele; Dunn, Teri; Eng, Sanya [Harp]; Erickson, Steve; Gievori, Bardyhl; Hartenberger, Russ; Houtman, Martin [Tenor Voc...
Conductors: Dala, Leslie

Recording information: St. George the Martyr Anglican Church, Toronto....continue...

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; ...
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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...

Takemitsu: Toward the Sea, Rain Tree, Rain Spell, Bryce

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2003-09-01

Works: Toru Takemitsu: And then I knew it was the wind; Rain-Tree, for 3 percussionists; Toward the Sea; Bryce, for flute, 2 harps & 2 percissionists; Itinerant, for flute; Voice, for solo flute; Air for so...
Performers: Aitken, Robert [Flute]; Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Dann, Steven; Eng, Sonya; Engelman, Robin; Goodman, Erica [Harp]; Hartenberger, Russ; Kraft, Norbert [Producer/Guitar]; Scott, Ryan; Swan, David; Val...

"Robert Aitken has had a distinguished career as a flutist, composer, and conductor. He commissions and performs new music and is the artistic director of...continue...

Steve Reich: Variations, Six Pianos / San Francisco Symphony and Edo de Waart (original recording reissued)

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2002-08-13

Performers: Barbara, Joan La; Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Chambers, Steve; Clayton, Jay; Ferchen, Tim; Ferchen, Timothy; Harms, Ben; Hartenberger, Russ; Jarrett, Janice; Preiss, James; Reich, Steve; Velez, Glen
Conductors: De Waart, Edo
Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony

The legendary recordings of 'Music for Mallet Instruments' and 'Six Pianos' has been newly remastered for this reissue, plus the gorgeious ' Variations.' Reich's works...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 / 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...
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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...

Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call Time, etc

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1998-03-17

Works: Toru Takemitsu: From me flows what you call time, for 5 percussionists & orchestra; Twill by Twilight, for orchestra; Requiem, for string orchestra
Performers: Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Cahn, William; Engelman, Robin; Hartenberger, Russ; Wyre, John
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Ensemble: Nexus

The Solo Percussionist - Music by William Cahn

1 CD / Nexus / 1997-01-01

Works: William Cahn: Partita, for solo percussion; The Recital Piece; Raga no 1; "...won't you join the dance?"; Nara, for solo percussion; In Ancient Temple Gardens for harp & percussion
Performers: Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Cahn, Ruth; Dash, Patricia; Engelman, Robin; Hartenberger, Russ; Udow, Michael; Vandemark, James; Werner, Joseph

Bob Becker: There is a Time

1 CD / Nexus / 1995-04-01

Works: Bob Becker: Prisoners of the Image Factory, for percussion ensemble; Noodrem; Mudra; Turning Point; There Is a Time
Performers: Becker, Bob [Percussion]

Prouesse / Rivka Golani

1 CD / Centrediscs / 1992-01-01

Works: David Jaeger: Fool's Paradise; Steve Tittle: Messages (4); Marjan Mozetich: Baroque Diversions, for viola; Jean Papineau-Couture: Prouesse; Ann Southam: Re-Tuning
Performers: Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Golani, Rivka; Hartenberger, Russ

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...