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Steve Reich - Early Works album

Steve Reich - Early Works album

  • Performer: Steve Reich
  • Genre: Electronic / Classical
  • Title: Early Works
  • Released: 1987
  • Style: Modern Classical, Experimental, Post-Modern, Minimal, Contemporary
  • Country: US
  • MP3 version size: 1855 mb
  • FLAC version size: 1840 mb
  • Other: AUD WAV TTA VOX RA AU MIDI
  • Rating: 4.6
  • Votes: 945

Description

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Steve Reich: Works 1965–1995 is a 1997 10-CD box set of compositions by composer Steve Reich released by Nonesuch Records as part of Reich's 60th birthday celebration. beautiful", it includes full track and personnel listing, career chronology, appreciative notes (such as essays by John Adams and Michael Tilson Thomas), a new interview, and "his most famous works" with the "curious exclusions" of Violin Phase, Music for Pieces of Wood and Vermont Counterpoint.

After taking musique concrete to another level, Reich decided to try to make similar strides with instrumental music. The two other pieces here, "Piano Phase" and "Clapping Music," represent this new direction in his work. Re-recorded here in 1986 and 1987, their intricate, layered patterns should be familiar to fans of another one of Reich's masterpieces, "Music for 18 Musicians. Early Works is a must-have introduction for anyone interested in the roots of minimalist music.

Album · 1987 · 5 Songs. Though Steve Reich's trailblazing minimalist compositions have had a huge impact on everything from rock to electronica, Reich didn't really reach an audience beyond the avant-garde cognoscenti until the '70s. The pieces collected here from his early career-mostly from the '60s-eventually became influential, but they remained a kind of buried treasure for years. As with most great minimalism, the simplicity of these compositions is simultaneously disarming and devastating

Album · 1987 · 5 Songs. Early Works Steve Reich. Clapping Music (1972). Steve Reich & Russ Hartenberger.

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Complete your Steve Reich collection. This is it - the greatest of the early minimal works of Steve Reich. If it's minimal you want - how more mimimal can you get than Clapping Music?

Tracklist

Come Out 12:54
Piano Phase 20:26
Clapping Music 4:39
It’s Gonna Rain 17:31

Versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
9 79169-1 Steve Reich Early Works ‎(LP) Elektra Nonesuch 9 79169-1 US 1987
979 169-2 Steve Reich Early Works ‎(CD, Comp) Nonesuch 979 169-2 Germany 1987
979 169-2 Steve Reich Early Works ‎(CD, Comp) Nonesuch 979 169-2 Germany 1987
9 79169-2 Steve Reich Early Works ‎(CD, Comp) Elektra Nonesuch 9 79169-2 US 1987
9 79169-2 Steve Reich Early Works ‎(CD, Comp, Lon) Elektra Nonesuch 9 79169-2 US 1987
WPCC-4087 Steve Reich Early Works ‎(CD, RE) Elektra Nonesuch WPCC-4087 Japan 1987
9 79169-4 Steve Reich Early Works ‎(Cass, Comp) Elektra Nonesuch 9 79169-4 US 1987
979 169-1 Steve Reich Early Works ‎(LP) Nonesuch 979 169-1 Europe 1987
9 79169-1 Steve Reich Early Works ‎(LP, Promo) Elektra Nonesuch 9 79169-1 US 1987
WPCS 5052 Steve Reich Early Works ‎(CD, RE) Elektra Nonesuch WPCS 5052 Japan 1996
979 169-2 Steve Reich Early Works ‎(CD, Comp) Nonesuch 979 169-2 Europe Unknown
9 79169-2 Steve Reich Early Works ‎(CD, Comp, RE) Elektra Nonesuch 9 79169-2 US Unknown

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Comments

Hucama Hucama
This is it - the greatest of the early minimal works of Steve Reich. Conceptual experiments with out-of-phase tape recorders on the enigmatic It's Gonna Rain and Come Out (the influence of this track even permeates into the work of Capt Beefheart).If it's minimal you want - how more mimimal can you get than Clapping Music? Just human hands clapping, gradually phasing in and out of time. Sheer genius. This is the record you could find cheap in HMV sales back in the 1980s... I think mine cost me £2.99.In my opinion the first 15 years (up to Octet) contain the best and most challenging pieces that Reich composed. Maybe he was chasing sales or acclaim but, for me, the later, more elaborately orchestrated works become less interesting, with more concessions to accessibility and 'the market'.I was lucky to see Steve Reich and Musicians at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in 1981 where they performed Clapping, Drumming and Octet, a great night that has stuck in my memory.
Delalbine Delalbine
Absolutely essential if you are interested in minimalism. The recording of "Clapping Music" is a bit dry for my liking (no resonance to it), but the two tape pieces are masterful & the piano piece very beautiful.