Collected Works

‘There’s just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them.’ – Guardian

Nonesuch Records releases Steve Reich Collected Works, a 27-disc box set featuring music recorded during his 40 years on the label. The collection represents six decades of Reich’s compositions, ranging from It’s Gonna Rain (1965) to first recordings of his two latest works: Jacob’s Ladder (2023) and Traveler’s Prayer (2020).  Two 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. 

Nonesuch 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 22 all-Reich albums, two retrospectives, and two remix releases.  Among his many honours, two of Reich’s Nonesuch records, Different Trains and Music for 18 Musicians, won Grammy Awards and his Double Sextet recording for the label won a Pulitzer Prize. 

“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.”   Hurwitz says in his liner note.  “Music for 18 Musicians 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.  Music for 18 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. 

“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,” Hurwitz continues.  “It now seemed possible to love contemporary music.  With Music for 18 Musicians, Steve suddenly flung open a door to the possibilities of what a modern composer could be in our time.” 

Reich also has become a significant mentor of the younger generation of American composers.  “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,” composer Nico Muhly says in his liner note.  “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.”  

Composer and pianist Timo Andres adds, “It is Steve Reich, perhaps more than any other musician, who prefigured our ideas of a twenty-first-century composer...  For audiences, too, Reich has proven that contemporary music can thrive outside the insular world of its own practitioners.  

“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,” he continues.  “Watching an ensemble play Music for 18 Musicians, 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.” 

Steve Reich has been called ‘the most original musical thinker of our time’ (New Yorker) and ‘among the great composers of the century’ (New York Times).  Starting in the 1960s, his pieces It’s Gonna Rain, Drumming, Music for 18 Musicians, Tehillim, Different Trains, 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. 

In addition to his Grammy Awards and Pulitzer Prize, Reich received the Praemium Imperiale in Tokyo, the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge award in Madrid, the Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall, and the Gold Medal in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  He has been named Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and awarded honorary doctorates by the Royal College of Music in London, the Juilliard School in New York, and the Liszt Academy in Budapest, among others. 

One of the most frequently choreographed composers, several noted choreographers have created dances to his music, including Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Jirí Kylián, Jerome Robbins, Justin Peck, Wayne McGregor, Benjamin Millepied, and Christopher Wheeldon. 

Reich’s documentary video opera works – The Cave and Three Tales, done in collaboration with video artist Beryl Korot – opened new directions for music theater and have been performed on four continents.  His work Quartet, for percussionist Colin Currie, sold out two consecutive concerts at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London shortly after tens of thousands at the Glastonbury Festival heard Jonny Greenwood (of Radiohead) perform Electric Counterpoint, followed by the London Sinfonietta performing his Music for 18 Musicians.   

Nonesuch Records has historically had close relationships with modern composers.  During the years of the label’s first president, Tracey Sterne, it made multiple recordings of Elliott Carter, George Crumb, Charles Wuorinen, and William Bolcom.  Since 1985, Nonesuch has made multiple recordings of works by Philip Glass, Stephen Sondheim, Laurie Anderson, Caroline Shaw, Louis Andriessen, John Zorn, Adam Guettel, Henryk Górecki, Timo Andres, Nico Muhly, and Donnacha Dennehy.  For John Adams, like Steve Reich, Nonesuch has recorded every new piece of his music since 1985; the label released a collection of his complete works in 2022.  

While Nonesuch recordings comprise 24 of the 27 discs in Collected Works, the set also includes recordings licensed from other labels: Mahan Esfahani’s recording of Piano Phase (Deutsche Grammophon); Ensemble Avantgarde’s recording of Pendulum Music (Wergo); Art Murphy, Jon Gibson, Steve Chambers, Philip Glass, and Steve Reich’s recording of Four Organs and Murphy, Gibson, Chambers, and Reich’s recording of Phase Patterns (Shandar); Andreas Hartmann and Waltraut Wächter’s recording of Duet with MDR-Sinfonieorchester led by Kristjan Järvi (Sony Classical); Steve Reich and Musicians’ recordings of Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ and Six Pianos (Deutsche Grammophon); San Francisco Symphony and conductor Edo de Waart’s recording of Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards (Philips); Ransom Wilson’s recording of Vermont Counterpoint (Angel); and Ensemble Signal’s recording of Music for 18 Musicians (Harmonia Mundi).

Disc 1 – Early Works

Come Out (1966) 

Piano Phase (1967) 

Double Edge 

Nurit Tilles, Edmund Niemann, pianos 

Clapping Music (1972) 

Russell Hartenberger, Steve Reich, hand claps 

It’s Gonna Rain (1965) 

Part I 

Part II 

 

Disc 2 – Early Works II

Piano Phase (1967)

Version for harpsichord by Mahan Esfahani (2014)

Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord

Pendulum Music (1968)

Ensemble Avantgarde

Martin Demmler, Steffen Schleiermacher, performers

Four Organs (1970)

Art Murphy, Philip Glass, Steve Chambers, Steve Reich, electric organs

Jon Gibson, maracas

Phase Patterns (1970)

Art Murphy, Jon Gibson, Steve Chambers, Steve Reich, electric organs

 

Disc 3 – Drumming

Drumming (1970–71)

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Steve Reich and Musicians

Bob Becker, Ben Harms, Russell Hartenberger, Garry Kvistad, James Preiss, Steve Reich, Gary Schall, Glen Velez, Thad Wheeler, tuned drums, marimbas, glockenspiels

Pamela Wood Ambush, Jay Clayton, voices

Steve Reich, whistling

Mort Silver, piccolo

 

Disc 4 – Early Works III

Duet (1993)

Andreas Hartmann, Waltraut Wächter, violins

MDR-Sinfonieorchester

Kristjan Järvi, conductor

Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ (1973)

Steve Reich and Musicians

Russell Hartenberger, Bob Becker, Tim Ferchen, Steve Reich, marimbas

Glen Velez, Ben Harms, glockenspiels

James Preiss, metallophone

Janice Jarrett, Joan LaBarbara, voices (long tones)

Jay Clayton, voice (melodic patterns)

Steve Chambers, electric organ

Six Pianos (1973)

Steve Reich and Musicians

Steve Chambers, James Preiss, Russell Hartenberger, Bob Becker, Steve Reich,

Glen Velez, pianos

Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards (1979)

San Francisco Symphony

Edo de Waart, conductor

Vermont Counterpoint (1982)

Ransom Wilson, piccolo, flute, alto flute

 

Disc 5 – Music For 18 Musicians

Music for 18 Musicians (1974–76)

Pulses

Section I

Section II

Section IIIA

Section IIIB

Section IV

Section V

Section VI

Section VII

Section VIII

Section IX

Section X

Section XI

Pulses II

Steve Reich and Musicians

Rebecca Armstrong, Marion Beckenstein, Cheryl Bensman-Rowe, voices

Jay Clayton, voice, piano

Russell Hartenberger, Bob Becker, Tim Ferchen, marimbas, xylophones

James Preiss, vibraphone, piano

Garry Kvistad, marimba, xylophone, piano

Steve Reich, marimba, piano

Thad Wheeler, marimba, maracas

Nurit Tilles, Edmund Niemann, pianos

Philip Bush, piano, maracas

Elizabeth Lim, violin

Jeanne LeBlanc, cello

Leslie Scott, Evan Ziporyn, clarinets, bass clarinets

 

Disc 6 – New York Counterpoint, Eight Lines, Four Organs

New York Counterpoint (1985)

I. Fast

II. Slow

III. Fast

Evan Ziporyn, clarinet, bass clarinet

Eight Lines (Octet) [1979] 

Bang on a Can

Todd Reynolds, Gregor Kitzis, Jaqueline Carrasco, Elizabeth Knowles, violins

Martha Mook, Ron Lawrence, violas

Mark Stewart, Greg Passelink, cellos

Patti Monson, David Fedele, flutes, piccolos

Michael Lowenstern, Evan Ziporyn, clarinets, bass clarinets

Edmund Niemann, Nurit Tilles, pianos

Brad Lubman, conductor

Four Organs (1970)

Bang on a Can

Michael Gordon, Lisa Moore, Mark Stewart, Evan Ziporyn, electric organs

James Preiss, maracas

 

Disc 7 – Tehillim / Three Movements

Tehillim (1981)

Part I (Fast)

Part II (Fast)

Part III (Slow)

Part IV (Fast)

Schönberg Ensemble

with Percussion Group The Hague

Barbara Borden, Tannie Willemstijn, sopranos

Yvonne Benschop, Ananda Goud, mezzo-sopranos

Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor

Three Movements (1986)

Movement I: ♩= 176

Movement II: ♩= 88

Movement III: ♩= 176

London Symphony Orchestra

Neil Percy, Simon Carrington, Ray Northcott, Frank Ricotti, Clive Malabar, percussion

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

 

Disc 8 – The Desert Music

The Desert Music (1983)

Text by William Carlos Williams

First Movement (Fast)

Second Movement (Moderate)

Third Movement: Part One (Slow)

Third Movement: Part Two (Moderate)

Third Movement: Part Three (Slow)

Fourth Movement (Moderate)

Fifth Movement (Fast)

Steve Reich and Musicians

Chorus and members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic

Russell Hartenberger, Robert Becker, Glen Velez, Garry Kvistad, principal percussion

Julie Rosenfeld*, concertmaster

Deborah Redding*, principal second violin

Francesca Martin*, principal viola

Sharon Palmer*, principal cello

Donald Palma, principal bass

* Colorado Quartet

Cheryl Bensman-Rowe, choral contractor

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

 

Disc 9 – Sextet / Six Marimbas

Sextet (1985)

 

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

Steve Reich and Musicians

with members of Nexus*

Bob Becker*, Russell Hartenberger*, Garry Kvistad, Glen Velez, marimbas, vibraphones,

bass drums, crotales, tam-tam, sticks

Edmund Niemann, Nurit Tilles, pianos, synthesizers

Six Marimbas (1986) 

Transcribed from Six Pianos (1973) by James Preiss

Steve Reich and Musicians

with members of Manhattan Marimba Quartet*

Bob Becker, Russell Hartenberger, Kory Grossman*, James Preiss*, Bill Ruyle*,

William Trigg*, marimbas

 

Disc 10 – Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint

Different Trains (1988)

America – Before the war

Europe – During the war

After the war

Kronos Quartet

David Harrington, violin

John Sherba, violin

Hank Dutt, viola

Joan Jeanrenaud, cello

Electric Counterpoint (1987)

I. Fast

II. Slow

III. Fast

Pat Metheny, electric guitar, bass guitar

 

Disc 11 – The Four Sections / Music For Mallet Instruments, Voice And Organ

The Four Sections (1987)

I. Strings (with Winds and Brass): ♩= 80

II. Percussion: ♩= 80

III. Winds and Brass (with Strings): ♩= 120

IV. Full Orchestra: ♩= 180

London Symphony Orchestra

with

Bob Becker, Russell Hartenberger, Garry Kvistad, James Preiss, percussion

Edmund Niemann, Nurit Tilles, pianos

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ (1973) 

Steve Reich and Musicians

Bob Becker, Tom Ferchen, Russell Hartenberger, Steve Reich, marimbas

Garry Kvistad, Thad Wheeler, glockenspiels

James Preiss, vibraphone

Nurit Tilles, electric organ

Pamela Wood Ambush, Rebecca Armstrong, voices (long tones)

Jay Clayton, voice (melodic patterns)

 

Disc 12 & 13 – The Cave

The Cave (1990–93)

Music by Steve Reich

Video/Text by Beryl Korot

DISC 12

Act 1

Typing Music (Genesis XVI)

Who Is Abraham?

Genesis XII

Who Is Sarah?

Who Is Hagar?

Typing Music Repeat

Who Is Ishmael?

Genesis XVIII

Who Is Isaac?

Genesis XXI

The Casting Out of Ishmael and Hagar

Machpelah Commentary

Genesis XXV

(chanted in Hebrew from the Torah by Ephraim Isaac)

Interior of the Cave

Act 2

East Jerusalem / Hebron (June 1989 and June 1991)

Surah 3

(chanted in Arabic from the Koran by Sheikh Dahoud Atalah, Muqri of Al-Aksa mosque)

DISC 13

Act 2 (continued)

Who Is Ibrahim?

Who Is Hajar?

The Near Sacrifice

El Khalil Commentary

Interior of the Cave

Act 3

New York City / Austin (April–May 1992)

Who Is Abraham?

Who Is Sarah?

Who Is Hagar?

Who Is Ishmael?

The Binding of Isaac

The Cave of Machpelah

The Steve Reich Ensemble

Cheryl Bensman-Rowe, Marion Beckenstein, sopranos

James Bassi, tenor

Hugo Munday, baritone

Bob Becker, Russell Hartenberger, Garry Kvistad, Thad Wheeler, percussion

Nurit Tilles, Edmund Niemann, Philip Bush, pianos, keyboards

Elizabeth Lim, Todd Reynolds, violins

Scott Rawls, viola

Jeanne LeBlanc, cello

Leslie Scott, Al Hunt, flutes, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet

Paul Hillier, conductor

 

Disc 14 – Proverb / Nagoya Marimbas / City Life

Proverb (1995)

Text by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Theatre of Voices

Andrea Fullington, Sonja Rasmussen, Allison Zelles Lloyd, sopranos

Alan Bennett, Paul Elliott, tenors

with members of The Steve Reich Ensemble

Russell Hartenberger, Bob Becker, vibraphones

Nurit Tilles, Edmund Niemann, electric organs

Paul Hillier, conductor

Nagoya Marimbas (1994)

Bob Becker, James Preiss, marimbas

City Life (1995)

“Check it out”

Pile Driver / alarms

“It’s been a honeymoon — Can’t take no mo’”

Heartbeats / boats & buoys

V. “Heavy smoke”

The Steve Reich Ensemble

David Fedele, Gen Shin Kai, flutes

Jackie Leclair, Matthew Sullivan, oboes

Leslie Scott, Mike Lowenstern, clarinets

Russell Hartenberger, Bob Becker, vibraphones

Garry Kvistad, percussion

Nurit Tilles, Philip Bush, sampling keyboards

Edmund Niemann, Lisa Moore, pianos

Elizabeth Lim, Todd Reynolds, violins

Lois Martin, viola

Jeanne LeBlanc, cello

Jay Elfenbein, bass

Brad Lubman, conductor

 

Disc 15 – Triple Quartet

Triple Quartet (1998)

First Movement

Second Movement

Third Movement

Kronos Quartet

David Harrington, violin

John Sherba, violin

Hank Dutt, viola

Jennifer Culp, cello

Electric Guitar Phase (2000)

Arranged from Violin Phase (1967) by Dominic Frasca

Dominic Frasca, electric guitar

Music for a Large Ensemble (1978)

Alarm Will Sound

and Ossia

Alan Pierson, vibraphone

Dennis DeSantis, Chris Vatalaro, Payton MacDonald, Mike Robbins, marimbas

Alexander Postelnek, Clay Greenberg, xylophones

Ian Quinn, Thomas Rosenkranz, Paul Vasile, Fang-Tzu Liu, pianos

Brianna Winters, Martha Cluver, voices

Laura Motchalov, Paul Yaeger, Caleb Burhans, Yasmin Craig, violins

Amelia Hollander, Paul Miller, violas

Stefan Freund, Susie Kelly, cellos

Ike Sturm, Brent Bulmann, basses

Brian Hermanson, Miranda Dohrman, clarinets

Jessica Johnson, flute

Todd Rewoldt, Josh Rutner, soprano saxophones

Jason Price, Eli Asher, Brent Madsen, Will Jennings, trumpets

Alan Pierson, conductor

Tokyo/Vermont Counterpoint (2000)

Arranged from Vermont Counterpoint (1982) by Mika Yoshida

Mika Yoshida, MIDI marimba

 

Discs 16-17 – Three Tales

Three Tales (2002)

Music by Steve Reich

Video by Beryl Korot

DISC 16 Three Tales (CD)

Part I: Hindenburg

It Could Not Have Been a Technical matter (DVD Only)

Nibelung Zeppelin

A Very Impressive Thing to See

I Couldn’t Understand It

Part II: Bikini

In the Air – 1

The Atoll – 1

On the Ships – 1

In the Air – 2

The Atoll – 2

On the Ships – 2

In the Air – 3

The Atoll – 3

On the Ships – 3

Coda

Part III: Dolly

Cloning

Dolly

Human Body Machine

Darwin

Interlude

Robots/Cyborgs/Immortality

The Steve Reich Ensemble

Bob Becker, Russell Hartenberger, Garry Kvistad, James Preiss, percussion

Elizabeth Lim Dutton, Todd Reynolds, violins

Scott Rawls, viola

Jeanne LeBlanc, cello

Edmund Niemann, Nurit Tilles, pianos, keyboards

Synergy Vocals

Micaela Haslam, director

“Hindenburg”:

Olive Simpson, Micaela Haslam, sopranos

Ashley Catling, Stephen Trowell, Rob Kearley, tenors

“Bikini,” “Dolly”:

Amanda Morrison, Micaela Haslam, sopranos

Gerard O’Beirne, Andrew Busher, Phillip Conway-Brown, tenors

Brad Lubman, conductor

DISC 17 Three Tales (DVD)

Three Tales

A Theater of Ideas

Steve Reich and Beryl Korot interviewed by David Allenby

Dolly Interviewees

Brief biographies, in order of appearance

Outtake

Original Act I, Scene 2 (deleted)

Brad Conducting

Video recorded in December 2002 at Hebbel Theater, Berlin, Germany

Performed by Ensemble Modern

Disc 18 – You Are (Variations)

You Are (Variations) (2004)

You Are Wherever Your Thoughts Are

Shiviti Hashem L’Negdi

(I Place the Eternal Before Me)

Explanations Come to an End Somewhere

Ehmor M’aht, V’ahsay Harbay

(Say Little and Do Much)

Los Angeles Master Chorale

Phoebe Alexander, Tania Batson, Claire Fedoruk, Rachelle Fox, Marie Hodgson, Emily Lin, sopranos

Sarona Farrell, Amy Fogerson, Alice Murray, Nancy Sulahian, Kim Switzer, Tracy Van Fleet, altos

Pablo Corá, Joseph Golightly, Shawn Kirchner, Sean McDermott, Fletcher Sheridan,

Kevin St. Clair, tenors

Geri Ratella, Sara Weisz, flutes

Joan Elardo, Joel Timm, oboes

James Faschia, Helen Goode-Castro, Larry Hughes, clarinets

Gloria Cheng, Lisa Edwards, Brian Pezzone, Vicki Ray, pianos

Wade Culbreath, Michael Englander, John Magnussen, Tom Raney, marimbas, vibraphones

Tamara Hatwan, Ralph Morrison, Susan Reddish, first violins

Samuel Fischer, Julie Rogers, Steve Schart, second violins

Darren McCann, Victoria Miskolcsky, Catherine Reddish, violas

Delores Bing, Maurice Grants, Roger LeBow, cellos

Oscar Hidalgo, bass

Grant Gershon, conductor

Cello Counterpoint (2003)

Maya Beiser, cello

 

Disc 19 – Daniel Variations

Daniel Variations (2006)

I saw a dream

My name is Daniel Pearl

(I’m a Jewish American from Encino, California)

Let the dream fall back on the dreaded

I sure hope Gabriel likes my music, when the day is done

Los Angeles Master Chorale

Tania Batson, Karen Hogle Brown, Claire Fedoruk, Rachelle Fox, Marie Hodgson,

Emily Lin, sopranos

Pablo Corá, Jody Golightly, Shawn Kirchner, Michael Lichtenauer, Kevin St. Clair,

George Sterne, tenors

Gary Bovyer, Michael Grego, clarinets

Gloria Cheng, Vicki Ray, Brian Pezzone, Lisa Edwards, keyboards

Theresa Dimond, Thomas Raney, Wade Culbreath, Michael Englander, John Magnussen,

Mark Zimoski, percussion

Elizabeth Lim Dutton*, Todd Reynolds*, violins

Scott Rawls*, viola

Eugene Moye*, cello

* members of The Steve Reich Ensemble

Grant Gershon, conductor

Variations for Vibes, Pianos and Strings (2005)

Fast

Slow

Fast

London Sinfonietta

Quartet 1

David Alberman, Jonathan Morton, violins

Paul Silverthorne, viola

Timothy Gill, cello

Quartet 2

Joan Atherton, Simon Smith, violins

Jane Atkins, viola

Lionel Handy, cello

Quartet 3

Miranda Fulleylove, Elizabeth Wexler, violins

James Boyd, viola

Sally Pendlebury, cello

John Constable, Shelagh Sutherland, pianos

David Hockings, Owen Gunnell, Sam Walton, Alex Neal, vibraphones

Alan Pierson, conductor

 

Disc 20 – Double Sextet / 2x5

Double Sextet (2007)

Fast

Slow

Fast

eighth blackbird

Tim Munro, flute

Michael J. Maccaferri, clarinet

Matt Albert, violin

Nicholas Photinos, cello

Matthew Duvall, vibraphone

Lisa Kaplan, piano

2x5 (2008)

Fast

Slow

Fast

Bang on a Can

Bryce Dessner, Mark Stewart, electric guitars

Robert Black, electric bass

Evan Ziporyn, piano

David Cossin, drums

 

Disc 21 – WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet, Dance Patterns

WTC 9/11 (2010)

I. 9/11

II. 2010

III. WTC

Kronos Quartet

David Harrington, violin

John Sherba, violin

Hank Dutt, viola

Jeffrey Zeigler, cello

Mallet Quartet (2009)

I. Fast

II. Slow

III. Fast

Sō Percussion

Eric Beach, Jason Treuting, vibraphones

Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, marimbas

Dance Patterns (2002)

James Preiss, Thad Wheeler, vibraphones

Frank Cassara, Garry Kvistad, xylophones

Edmund Niemann, Nurit Tilles, piano

 

Disc 22 – Radio Rewrite

Electric Counterpoint (1987)

I. Fast

II. Slow

III. Fast

Jonny Greenwood, guitar, bass guitar

Piano Counterpoint (2011)

Arrangement of Six Pianos (1973) for piano and tape by Vincent Corver

Vicky Chow, piano

Radio Rewrite (2012)

I. Fast

II. Slow

III. Fast

IV. Slow

V. Fast

Alarm Will Sound

Erin Lesser, flute

Elisabeth Stimpert, clarinet

Christopher Thompson, Matt Smallcomb, vibraphones

John Orfe, Michael Harley, pianos

Courtney Orlando, Caleb Burhans, violins

Nathan Schram, viola

Stefan Freund, cello

Miles Brown, electric bass

Alan Pierson, conductor

 

Disc 23 – Pulse / Quartet

Pulse (2015)

International Contemporary Ensemble

Josh Modney, Gabby Diaz, Michi Wiancko, Pauline Kim, violins

Kyle Armbrust, Wendy Richman, violas

Claire Chase, Alice Teyssier, flutes

Joshua Rubin, Campbell MacDonald, clarinets

Jacob Greenberg, piano

Greg Chudzik, bass

Quartet (2013)

I. Fast

II. Slow

III. Fast

Colin Currie Group

Colin Currie, Sam Walton, vibraphones

Philip Moore, Simon Crawford-Phillips, pianos

 

Disc 24 – Runner / Music For Ensemble And Orchestra

Runner (2016)

I. Sixteenths

II. Eighths

III. Quarters

IV. Eighths

V. Sixteenths

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Martin Chalifour, Nathan Cole, first violins

Mark Kashper, Kristine Whitson, second violins

Teng Li, Dale Hikawa Silverman, violas

Robert deMaine, Ben Hong, cellos

Christopher Hanulik, bass

Denis Bouriakov, Elise Shope Henry, flutes

Jonathan Fischer, Anne Marie Gabriele, oboes

Burt Hara, Andrew Lowy, clarinets

Matthew Howard, Wesley Sumpter, percussion

Joanne Pearce Martin, Vicki Ray, keyboards

Susanna Mälkki, conductor

Music for Ensemble and Orchestra (2018)

I. Sixteenths

II. Eighths

III. Quarters

IV. Eighths

V. Sixteenths

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Ensemble

Martin Chalifour, Nathan Cole, first violins

Lyndon Johnston Taylor, Mark Kashper, second violins

Teng Li, Dale Hikawa Silverman, violas

Robert deMaine, Ben Hong, cellos

Christopher Hanulik, Oscar M. Meza, basses

Theodore Henry III, electric bass

Denis Bouriakov, Elise Shope Henry, flutes

Ramón Ortega, Anne Marie Gabriele, oboes

Boris Allakhverdyan, Andrew Lowy, clarinets

Matthew Howard, Eduardo Meneses, percussion

Joanne Pearce Martin, Gavin Martin, keyboards

Orchestra

Akiko Tarumoto, Rebecca Reale, Michele Bovyer, Camille Avellano, Jin-Shan Dai, Mischa Lefkowitz,

Edith Markman, Stacy Wetzel, Eduardo Rios, Cheryl Brick-Norman, first violins

Dale Breidenthal, Ingrid Chun, Tianyun Jia, Nickolai Kurganov, Johnny Lee, Varty Manouelian,

Michelle Tseng, Sooah Kim, second violins

Ben Ullery, Dana Lawson, Michael Larco, Hui Liu, Minor L. Wetzel, Andrew François, violas

Dahae Kim, Barry Gold, Jason Lippmann, Gloria Lum, cellos

Thomas Hooten, James Wilt, Christopher Still, Marissa Benedict, trumpets

Stephen Biagini, Kenneth Bonebrake, Kazue Asawa McGregor, Benjamin Picard, KT Somero,

librarians

Susanna Mälkki, conductor

 

Disc 25 – Reich/Richter

Reich/Richter (2019)

Opening

Patterns & scales

Cross fades

Ending

Ensemble intercontemporain

Emmanuelle Ophèle, Sophie Cherrier, flutes

Philippe Grauvogel, Didier Pateau, oboes

Martin Adámek, Jérôme Comte, clarinets

Benoît Maurin, Samuel Favre, vibraphones

Hidéki Nagano, Géraldine Dutroncy, pianos

Diego Tosi, Jeanne-Marie Conquer, violins

John Stulz, viola

Eric-Maria Couturier, cello

George Jackson, conductor

 

Disc 26 – Jacob’s Ladder / Traveler’s Prayer

Jacob’s Ladder (2023)

Genesis 28:12

Vayachalom

(And he dreamed)

V’hinei, sulam mutzav artza

(And behold, a ladder set up on the Earth)

V’rosho magia hashamayima

(And its top reached heaven)

V’hinei, malachei Elokim olim v’yordim bo

(And behold, messengers of G-d ascending and descending on it)

Synergy Vocals

Tara Bungard, Micaela Haslam, sopranos

Benedict Hymas, Will Wright, tenors

New York Philharmonic

Frank Huang, Sheryl Staples, first violins

Qianqian Li, Lisa Eunsoo Kim, second violins

Rebecca Young, Cong Wu, violas

Carter Brey, Matthew Christakos, cellos

Robert Langevin, Mindy Kaufman, flutes

Robert Botti, John Upton, oboes

Anthony McGill, Barret Ham, clarinets

Christopher S. Lamb, Daniel Druckman, percussion

Eric Huebner, piano

Lawrence Tarlow, Sara Griffin, Viola Chan, librarians

Jaap van Zweden, conductor

Traveler’s Prayer (2020)

Synergy Vocals

Amanda Morrison, Micaela Haslam, sopranos

Benedict Hymas, Will Wright, tenors

Colin Currie Group

Sam Walton, Owen Gunnell, percussion

Siwan Rhys, piano

Jonathan Morton, Greta Mutlu, Clio Gould, Beatrix Lovejoy, violins

Nicholas Bootiman, Meghan Cassidy, violas

Robin Michael, Zoe Martlew, cellos

Colin Currie, conductor

 

Disc 27 – Music For 18 Musicians (Signal)

Music for 18 Musicians (modular version)

Pulses

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3a

Section 3b

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Section 9

Section 10

Section 11

Pulses 

Ensemble Signal

Olivia De Prato, violin

Lauren Radnofsky, cello

Ken Thomson, Bill Kalinkos, clarinets, bass clarinets

David Friend, Lisa Moore, Red Wierenga, Thomas Rosenkranz, pianos

Doug Perkins, Bill Solomon, marimbas

Brad Lubman, marimba (Section VII)

James Deitz, maracas, marimba (Section IllB)

Martha Cluver, Caroline Shaw, Mellissa Hughes, Kirsten Sollek, voices

Owen Clayton Condon*, xylophone

Robert Dillon*, xylophone, marimba (Section IllB)

Peter Martin*, vibraphone, piano (Sections II, IX, X)

David Skidmore*, marimba, piano (Sections IX, X)

* members of Third Coast Percussion

Brad Lubman, music director

Paul Coleman, live sound director