Amadinda Percussion Group - (Steve Reich's) Music for 18 Musicians - Live in Budapest (2004)
Amadinda Percussion Group - (Steve Reich's) Music for 18 Musicians - Live in Budapest (2004)
Catalog HCD 32208 | EAC Rip | FLAC+CUE+LOG | 61:09 | 349 Mb | No Art
Minimalism, Contemporary
Catalog HCD 32208 | EAC Rip | FLAC+CUE+LOG | 61:09 | 349 Mb | No Art
Minimalism, Contemporary
Tracklist:
01 Music for 18 Musicians 61:09
I've listened to many versions of Reich's beautiful piece, but this one somehow feels the most rich. The opening Pulses section is mesmerizingly full in sound, and captures the feeling of beauty and mystery in the piece better than other productions, whose starts just feel flat in comparison.
Review, Amazon.com
This live recording of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians comes with lavish praise from the composer himself, a man who has made no secret of his low regard for both live recordings in general and live recordings of his own music by European musicians in particular. This performance was recorded in concert at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest. The Amadinda percussion ensemble, normally a quartet, added the requisite 14 additional players in order to meet the demands of the score and learned the parts by interpreting Reich's original version of the printed music rather than the official published score from the late 1990s. With Music for 18 Musicians, Reich made it clear that he was not a "minimalist" in the sense that his contemporaries Philip Glass and Terry Riley were minimalist; while the piece is characterized by repeated figures and relatively slow harmonic movement, there is a tremendous intricacy to the structure that underlies this composition, and it covers a large amount of conceptual and sonic ground over the course of its one-hour length. Amadinda and the rest of the ensemble play and sing with an irresistible energy and verve; Reich is entirely right when he says, in the notes, that "one is simply swept along" by the power of their performance. Very highly recommended.
Review, allmusic.com
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