Chamber, Sextets, Reich (composer)
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The Colin Currie Group draw on the best of previous recordings, matching Ensemble Signal's attractive combination of energy, power, brilliance and precision in the first and last movements,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Reich: Clapping Music & other works
RecommendedRecorded live, in DSD 128fs, at LSO St Luke’s, London 30th October 2015
Neil Percy
LSO Percussion Ensemble
The LSO Percussion Ensemble’s riveting recording [of Music for Pieces of Wood] has the bonus of being live. Moreover, they take it very fast indeed…and accomplish it brilliantly. I’ve found... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Steve Reich: Collected Works
Steve Reich, Mahan Esfahani (early keyboard instruments), Steve Reich Ensemble (miscellaneous ensemble), Kronos Quartet (string quartet), Pat Metheny (guitar), Maya Beiser (cello), Colin Currie (percussion), Ensemble Intercontemporain (chamber ensemble), San Francisco Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra,...
Along the way, his music gains in social and spiritual significance; sometimes video imagery too (as in the DVD of Three Tales). But the biggest bliss for this listener came with Ensemble Signal’s... —
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The Times, Best Classical Box Sets Christmas 2025
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Reich: Mallet Quartet, Sextet, Nagoya Marimbas & Music for Pieces of Wood
RecommendedDavid Friend (piano), Oliver Hagen (piano), Sean Connors (marimba), Peter Martin (marimba), Matthew Duvall (percussion)
Third Coast Percussion
Third Coast’s considered approach allows them to dig deeper into Sextet’s dark, almost threatening undertow. A sense of urgency and immediacy is still maintained, however, and the transitions... —
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Danish chamber group Ekkozone gives vibrant, rhythmically true and dynamically nuanced performances of these Minimalist masterworks. They’re both captured in great sound, too. —
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
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Reich: Sextet - Clapping Music - Music for Pieces of Wood
LSO Percussion Ensemble, Neil Percy (percussion)
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What we hear is a busy, continuous texture which displays a kind of musical moire effect, as tiny alterations in the parts keep inviting the ear to discern new patterns, almost subliminally.... —
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Steve Reich: City Life
Fulvio Caldini, Alessandro Carobbi & Roberto Fabbriciani
Contempoartensemble & Nextime Ensemble, Mauro Ceccanti, Danilo Grassi
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