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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Kronos’ premiere of composer Steve Reich’s Different Trains at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Nonesuch Records has reissued Reich’s Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint album on vinyl. Featuring definitive performances of the two works by Kronos and Pat Metheny respectively, the LP was recently highlighted by Pitchfork on their “ Best Albums of the s” list. Reich won the Recording Academy’s Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition in for Kronos’ recording of Different Trains. Purchase or stream the album >
Regarding Different Trains, Reich wrote: “The idea for the piece came from my childhood. When I was one year old my parents separated. My mother moved to Los Angeles and my father stayed in New York. Since they arranged divided custody, I travelled back and forth by train frequently between New York and Los Angeles from to accompanied by my governess. While the trips were exciting and romantic at the time I now look back and think that, if I had been in Europe during this period, as a Jew I would have had to ride very different trains.” Learn more about the work for string quartet and tape in th
Steve Reich&#;s compositions Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint reissued on vinyl
Featuring the first recordings by Kronos Quartet and Pat Methany.
Two of Steve Reich&#;s minimalist compositions from the late &#;80s – Different Trains and Electric Counterpoint – have been reissued on vinyl by Nonesuch.
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Different Trains is a three movement piece that mixes string quartet with taped speech of Reich referencing his childhood during World War Two. Kronos Quartet performed the work, which won a Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition in
Its name is a nod to journeys Reich took across the country to visit his separated mother and father, and the idea that, as a Jew, were he to be living in Europe rather than America he would be traveling in Holocaust trains to concentration camps.
Watch a mini-documentary on Different Trains by Robert-Edgridge Waks here:
Electric Counterpoint is also a three part composition – divided into &#;Slow&#;, &#;Medium&#; and &#;Fast&#; – performed by guitarist Pat Methany who played alongside pre-recorded tapings of himself.
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- the method of Different Trains: Mr. Reich's piece, Different Trains, marked a new compositional method, rooted in It's Gonna Rain and Come Out, in which speech recordings generate the musical material for musical instruments. The New York Times hailed Different Trains as "a work of such astonishing originality that breakthrough seems the only possible descriptionpossesses an absolutely harrowing emotional impact." Mr. Reich has an exclusive recording contract with the Nonesuch label; in he received a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition for Different Trains as recorded by the Kronos Quartet on Nonesuch.
- on Reich and the Different Trains project: Recognised as one of the foremost composers of our time, minimalist Steve Reich was, for many years, considered unashamedly avant-garde. Much of his early work experimented with mind-bending tape loops (It's Gonna Rain, & Come Out, ), austere and repetitious multi-keyboard works (Four Organs, ) and mesmerising Gamelan-inspired percussion works (Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices & Organ, ). By the eighties, Reic
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Nonesuch Records' recording of Steve Reich's Different Trains, the Grammy Award winner for Best Contemporary Composition, and Electric Counterpoint has returned on vinyl. The album features the first recordings of the two pieces, performed by Kronos Quartet and Pat Metheny, respectively. The vinyl edition is released on the 30th anniversary of Kronos Quartet's world premiere performance of Different Trains at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. The New York Times declared Different Trains "a work of such originality that 'breakthrough' seems the only possible description." Pitchfork recently called it a "late-career masterpiece," including the album among the Best Albums of the s.
Steve Reich has been hailed as "America's greatest living composer" (The Village Voice), "the most original musical thinker of our time" (The New Yorker), and "among the great composers of the century" (New York Times). From his early taped speech p
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