{"product_id":"steve-reich-collected-works-cd-box-set","title":"Steve Reich - Collected Works CD Box Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e26 CDs + one DVD set. Comes with two extensive booklets (132 and 120 pages).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNonesuch Records releases Steve Reich \u003cem\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/em\u003e, a twenty-seven-disc box set featuring music recorded during composer Steve Reich's forty years on the label. The collection represents six decades of Reich’s compositions, ranging from\u003cem\u003e It’s Gonna Rain\u003c\/em\u003e (1965) to first recordings of his two latest works: \u003cem\u003eJacob’s Ladder\u003c\/em\u003e (2023) and \u003cem\u003eTraveler’s Prayer\u003c\/em\u003e (2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo extensive booklets contain new essays by longtime Nonesuch President Robert Hurwitz, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, Steve Reich and Musicians percussionist Russell Hartenberger, producer Judith Sherman, and composer Nico Muhly, as well as a comprehensive listener’s guide by pianist and composer Timo Andres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"There’s just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history,\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\" says the Guardian, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"and Steve Reich is one of them.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNonesuch made its first record with Steve Reich in 1985. He was signed exclusively to the label that year, and since then the company has released twenty-two all-Reich albums, two retrospectives, and two remix releases. Among his many honors, two of Reich’s Nonesuch records, \u003cem\u003eDifferent Train\u003c\/em\u003es and \u003cem\u003eMusic for 18 Musicians\u003c\/em\u003e, won Grammy Awards and his Double Sextet recording for the label won a Pulitzer Prize. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"I first heard Music for 18 Musicians when I was in my mid-twenties, at a moment when I was still in the process of figuring out my own taste in contemporary music. I wasn’t yet certain what modern classical music really meant, nor was I sure how it stacked up against work from the past.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\" Hurwitz says in his linear note. \"\u003cem\u003eMusic for 18 Musicians\u003c\/em\u003e was an event of such immense importance that it changed how I felt not only about Steve, but about minimalism, modernism and, in some respects, classical music. \u003cem\u003eMusic for 18\u003c\/em\u003e was a piece that could sweep listeners up with its non-stop kinetic activity, its opulent sound, its rhythmic invention, its stunning architecture. But only years later did I recognize what drew me in to such an intense degree: it was harmony\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Here were the kinds of colors and voicings I loved in the earlier twentieth-century music of Stravinsky and Bartók and others, but had found missing in practically all of the new music I had been hearing for years. It was the key that unlocked the music of modern times for me,\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\" Hurwitz continues. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"It now seemed possible to love contemporary music. With \u003cem\u003eMusic for 18 Musicians\u003c\/em\u003e, Steve suddenly flung open a door to the possibilities of what a modern composer could be in our time.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReich also has become a significant mentor of the younger generation of American composers. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"This music is as part of my artistic ecosystem as air is to my respiratory system, and I can’t imagine saying anything about it which wouldn’t somehow get its importance wrong,\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\" composer Nico Muhly says in his liner note. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Steve once told me that the trick is to ‘find your band,’ the group of instruments that form the core of your musical language, and this is advice I pass on to all younger composers who cross my path.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"On initial approach, Reich’s music appears both friendly and a little forbidding, its surfaces immaculate, polished, yet also playful and viscerally beautiful ... It exudes a specific kind of energy in live performance as well,\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\" he continues. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Watching an ensemble play \u003cem\u003eMusic for 18 Musicians\u003c\/em\u003e, for example, one has the sense of observing a utopian society in miniature, a mass of people working towards a common goal with no apparent leader.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteve Reich has been called \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"the most original musical thinker of our time\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\" (New Yorker) and \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"among the great composers of the century\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\" (New York Times). Starting in the 1960s, his pieces \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"It’s Gonna Rain\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\", \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Drumming\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\", \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Music for 18 Musicians\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\", \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Tehillim\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\", \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Different Trains\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\", and many others helped shift the aesthetic center of musical composition worldwide away from extreme complexity and towards rethinking pulsation and tonal attraction in new ways. He continues to influence younger generations of composers and mainstream musicians and artists all over the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile Nonesuch recordings comprise twenty-four of the twenty-seven discs in \u003cem\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/em\u003e, the set also includes recordings licensed from other labels: Mahan Esfahani’s recording of \u003cem\u003ePiano Phase \u003c\/em\u003e(Deutsche Grammophon); Ensemble Avantgarde’s recording of \u003cem\u003ePendulum Music\u003c\/em\u003e (Wergo); Art Murphy, Jon Gibson, Steve Chambers, Philip Glass, and Steve Reich’s recording of \u003cem\u003eFour Organs\u003c\/em\u003e and Murphy, Gibson, Chambers, and Reich’s recording of \u003cem\u003ePhase Patterns\u003c\/em\u003e (Shandar); Andreas Hartmann and Waltraut Wachter’s recording of \u003cem\u003eDuet\u003c\/em\u003e with MDR-Sinfonieorchester led by Kristjan Jarvi (Sony Classical); Steve Reich and Musicians’ recordings of\u003cem\u003e Music for Mallet Instruments\u003c\/em\u003e, Voices and Organ and Six Pianos (Deutsche Grammophon); San Francisco Symphony and conductor Edo de Waart’s recording of \u003cem\u003eVariations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards\u003c\/em\u003e (Philips); Ransom Wilson’s recording of \u003cem\u003eVermont Counterpoint\u003c\/em\u003e (Angel); and Ensemble Signal’s recording of \u003cem\u003eMusic for 18 Musicians\u003c\/em\u003e (Harmonia Mundi).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54543875309752,"sku":"rud1793066345893","price":138.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/0312\/9528\/files\/steve-reich---collected-works-cd-box-set_1.jpg?v=1793066351","url":"https:\/\/batterytester.shop\/products\/steve-reich-collected-works-cd-box-set","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}