This version of Different Trains, a reworking of the original string quartet version, impresses immediately by the richness of its vastly expanded sound palette. It reveals that inside that frenetic chamber work was a much larger piece trying to get out, and here it is, fully realised, as it were, in glorious technicolor. Some of the writing has an almost Beethovenian quality. It's a hugely impressive performance of a work that has, quite literally, grown in stature. And, of course, if you're going to record Reich with 48 strings, you may as well include the largest version of TripleQuartet from 1999, scored for 36 of them.
If in going back to The Four Sections for orchestra from 1986 one has the feeling that much is inchoate, it's also true that all the elemental power of the more recent works is there, too, and the Lyon musicians react to it with fantastic energy and precision. A major addition to the Reich discography.