Category: Music Classical

Steve Reich: Mallet Quartet

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Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.

Reich’s style of composition influenced many composers and groups. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (for example, his early compositions It’s Gonna Rain and Come Out), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, Pendulum Music and Four Organs). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich’s work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably Different Trains.

Writing in The Guardian, music critic Andrew Clements suggested that Reich is one of “a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history”. The American composer and critic Kyle Gann has said that Reich “may … be considered, by general acclamation, America’s greatest living composer”.

 

César Franck: Les Sept dernières paroles du Christ en Croix

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I Prolog: O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam 0:00
II 1. Pater, dimitte illis 4:49
III 2. Amen, dico tibi 10:28
IV 3. Mulier, ecce filius tuus 14:45
V 4. Deus meus, ut quid dereliquisti me? 21:40
VI 5. Sitio! Dederunt ei vinum bibere cum felle mixtum 25:25
VII 6. Consummatum est. 32:10
VIII 7. Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum 37:40

Edith Wiens, soprano
Raimundo Mettre, tenor
Thomas Pfeiffer, baritone
Ivo Ingram, bass

Philharmonie Schwäbisch Gmünd (Chor und Orchester)
Hubert Beck, director

Sergei Rachmaninov: Vespers Op.37, Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom Op.31

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Come, let us worship
1:45 Bless the Lord, O my soul
6:38 Blessed be the Man
12:19 O serene light
15:48 Now let Thy Servant depart
19:47 Rejoice, O Virgin
22:13 Glory to God in the Highest
25:03 Praise the Name of the Lord
27:37 Blessed art Thou, O Lord
33:39 Having seen the Resurrection of the Lord
36:56 My soul magnifies the Lord
46:42 Glory to God in the Higest
54:32 Troparia of the Day of Salvation
56:33 Christ is risen from the grave
1:00:07 Thanksgiving to the Mother of God

National Academic Choir of Ukraine ‘Dumka’
Yevhen Savchuk, director