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EMI celebrates the 75th birthday of one of our most acclaimed and respected contemporary composers, Steve Reich. This album includes a world-premiere recording of a new scoring of Reich's "Six Pianos", entitled "Piano Counterpoint", arranged and performed by Vincent Corver, Pianist and Co-Founder of the Composer-Endorsed London Steve Reich Ensemble
Triple Quartet: Movement I
Triple Quartet: Movement II
Triple Quartet: Movement III
Piano Counterpoint arranged from Six Pianos by Vincent Corver
Different Trains: America, Before the War
Different Trains: Europe, During the War
Different Trains: After the War
November 2011
“the London Steve Reich Ensemble deliver crack, rhythmically idiomatic, Steve-endorsed performances of music that requires greater insider knowledge of Reich's methods, and the sounds he expects, than his notation can convey; having absorbed the lessons, the ensemble are Reich's representatives this side of the Atlantic”
2nd September 2011
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“Triple Quartet opens with the Bernard Herrmann's urgent Psycho soundtrack, the sawing strings overlapping nervously, before growing more bewildered and distracted in the melancholy second movement. It's a fine companion to Different Trains, with the same sense of fraught journeys and uncertain destinations, but the frantic detail of Piano Counterpoint impresses most”
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Triple Quartet: Movement I
