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Collected Works
Artist
Steve Reich
ReleaseProduct
Collected Works
Label
Nonesuch
Catalogue Number
0075597904185
Release Date
March 14, 2025

  • CD Boxset

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    26×CD + 1×DVD

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    0075597904185

    • 27 discs in wallets
    • Two booklets of 132 and 120 pages.
    • Free UK shipping

    Estimated release date: March 14, 2025

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Steve Reich's music has found itself far from where it started: pieces like ‘Vermont Counterpoint’ are ingeniously worked into DJ sets by Björk, ‘Pendulum Music’ has been famously performed by Sonic Youth and Aphex Twin, and there's even a remix album featuring the likes of Coldcut, Howie B, and Nobukazu Takemura. It's all testament to his enduring, innovating presence in our collective music consciousness since his very first compositions in the 1960s, and his status as a pioneer of phasing, process music, and minimalism. Sixty years on since his fated ‘It's Gonna Rain’ piece got the tape rolling, Nonesuch release the most comprehensive catalogue of Reich's works to date with this 27 disc set stretching from the 60s to the modern day.

From simple language to glossolalic rhythm to the pure revolutions of tape, ‘Come Out’ ignited decades of exploration in bending and shaping sound through composition. The hypnotic nature of Reich's early phasing works seem to capture a transcendent mecha-human sound, a seemingly impossible, delicate dance between performers. Hungry to explore concepts across mediums and instruments, he injects the mathematics of music with vibrant colour in ‘Drumming’ and the magnum opus ‘Music For 18 Musicians’, their timeless twinkle and beauty rippling throughout. That magnificent sense of scope only evolves as time goes on, and Reich folds in influences from his Jewish heritage and NYC home.

The oft cited quote that Steve Reich is one of few living composers to change the course of music history becomes undeniable when his work is engaged with in this monolithic collection.

Track List

  1. Disc 1 – Early Works
  2. Disc 2 – Early Works II
  3. Disc 3 – Drumming
  4. Disc 4 – Early Works III
  5. Disc 5 – Music For 18 Musicians
  6. Disc 6 – New York Counterpoint, Eight Lines, Four Organs
  7. Disc 7 – Tehillim / Three Movements
  8. Disc 8 – The Desert Music
  9. Disc 9 – Sextet / Six Marimbas
  10. Disc 10 – Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint
  11. Disc 11 – The Four Sections / Music For Mallet Instruments, Voice And Organ
  12. Disc 12 & 13 – The Cave
  13. Disc 14 – Proverb / Nagoya Marimbas / City Life
  14. Disc 15 – Triple Quartet
  15. Discs 16 & 17 (DVD) – Three Tales
  16. Disc 18 – You Are (Variations)
  17. Disc 19 – Daniel Variations
  18. Disc 20 – Double Sextet / 2x5
  19. Disc 21 – WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet, Dance Patterns
  20. Disc 22 – Radio Rewrite
  21. Disc 23 – Pulse / Quartet
  22. Disc 24 – Runner / Music For Ensemble And Orchestra
  23. Disc 25 – Reich/Richter
  24. Disc 26 – Jacob’s Ladder / Traveler’s Prayer
  25. Disc 27 – Music For 18 Musicians (Signal)
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