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Steve Reich's commercial success had ballooned after his prior release on ECM, Music for 18 Musicians, and this collection of three compositions, two new and one from 1967, was the follow-up. Music for a Large Ensemble is very much of a piece with the prior work, using extended melodic lines, a larger palette of sound colors, and key changes every several minutes. It's charming and pleasantly busy in an industrious way but really covers little new ground. The remaining two pieces are where the real meat lies. Violin Phase was written early in the composer's career, when he was just working through the core ideas of his brand of minimalism alongside similar "phase" works for piano and electric organ. Scored for solo violin and played by the brilliant Shem Guibbory, the violinist plays against tapes of himself, beginning in strict unison but gradually speeding up or slowing down, generating one fascinatingly unexpected pattern after another. The intellectual rigor and breathtaking purity of the music makes one wish, perhaps, that Reich would forego the added ornamentation of his later years. Ironically, given the genre, some of the lines have an almost romantic quality to them, giving the work a striving, even heroic character. Octet represented a step ahead from the opening piece. Scaled back in instrumentation, with spikier (even jazzy) rhythms (bass clarinets scurrying rapidly hither and yon) and more overtly melodic material (some of it inspired by his recent study of Hebrew cantillation), Reich managed once again to successfully balance process with content in a manner that would reach its apex for this period with his subsequent Sextet. Listeners who only came to know Reich through his even more popular works like Different Trains and The Cave owe it to themselves to seek out recordings like this and earlier releases to hear his concept in its clearest and boldest context. Highly recommended.
© Brian Olewnick /TiVo
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Music For A Large Ensemble (Steve Reich)
David Van Tieghem, Xylophone, AssociatedPerformer - Richard Cohen, Clarinet, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Clayton, Voice, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Reich, Composer - Michael Finckel, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - James Preiss, Vibraphone, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Larry Karush, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Elizabeth Arnold, Voice, AssociatedPerformer - James Hamlin, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Judith Sugarman, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Mort Silver, Flute, AssociatedPerformer - Richard Schwarz, Marimba, AssociatedPerformer - Vincent Gnojek, Soprano Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Shem Guibbory, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Reich Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist - Martin Wieland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Claire Bergman, Viola, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1980 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Violin Phase (Steve Reich)
Steve Reich, Composer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Shem Guibbory, Violin, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Wieland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1980 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Octet (Steve Reich)
Steve Reich, Composer - Ruth Siegler, Viola, AssociatedPerformer - Robert Chausow, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Edmund Niemann, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Chris Finckel, Cello, AssociatedPerformer - Mort Silver, Piccolo, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Reich Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist - Martin Wieland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1980 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Albumbeschreibung
Steve Reich's commercial success had ballooned after his prior release on ECM, Music for 18 Musicians, and this collection of three compositions, two new and one from 1967, was the follow-up. Music for a Large Ensemble is very much of a piece with the prior work, using extended melodic lines, a larger palette of sound colors, and key changes every several minutes. It's charming and pleasantly busy in an industrious way but really covers little new ground. The remaining two pieces are where the real meat lies. Violin Phase was written early in the composer's career, when he was just working through the core ideas of his brand of minimalism alongside similar "phase" works for piano and electric organ. Scored for solo violin and played by the brilliant Shem Guibbory, the violinist plays against tapes of himself, beginning in strict unison but gradually speeding up or slowing down, generating one fascinatingly unexpected pattern after another. The intellectual rigor and breathtaking purity of the music makes one wish, perhaps, that Reich would forego the added ornamentation of his later years. Ironically, given the genre, some of the lines have an almost romantic quality to them, giving the work a striving, even heroic character. Octet represented a step ahead from the opening piece. Scaled back in instrumentation, with spikier (even jazzy) rhythms (bass clarinets scurrying rapidly hither and yon) and more overtly melodic material (some of it inspired by his recent study of Hebrew cantillation), Reich managed once again to successfully balance process with content in a manner that would reach its apex for this period with his subsequent Sextet. Listeners who only came to know Reich through his even more popular works like Different Trains and The Cave owe it to themselves to seek out recordings like this and earlier releases to hear his concept in its clearest and boldest context. Highly recommended.
© Brian Olewnick /TiVo
Informationen zu dem Album
- 1 Disc(s) - 3 Track(s)
- Gesamte Laufzeit: 00:48:27
- Künstler: Steve Reich
- Komponist: Steve Reich
- Label: ECM New Series
- Genre: Klassik
© 1980 Steve Reich ℗ 1980 ECM Records GmbH
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