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| Reich: Triple Quartet, Music for a Large Ensemble, Electric Guitar Phase | 
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| Artist: Kronos Quartet
Creators: Steve Reich, Alan Pierson
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
Buy New: $10.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (13 reviews)
Sales Rank: 143237
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79546
UPC: 075597954623
EAN: 0075597954623
ASIN: B00005NSQT
Release Date: October 16, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Triple Quartet: First Movement | | • | Triple Quartet: Second Movement | | • | Triple Quartet: Third Movement | | • | Electric Guitar Phase - Dominic Frasca | | • | Music For Large Ensemble - Alarm Will Sound/Ossia/Alan Pierson | | • | Tokyo/Vermont Counterpoint - Mike Yoshida |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
Good stuff.. June 10, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
From the sharp, discerning Triple Quartet, to Tokyo-Vermont Counterpoint, this CD is worth hearing to see an insight into Reich's later works, (starting with Triple Quartet), and it was brilliant to hear a revision of Music for a Large Ensemble, although I cannot really say that it tops the original in terms of colour and rhythm. Tokyo-Vermont Counterpoint shows the musical processes in a more precise way than the flutes, although the natural timbre of the flutes can be more pleasing. Electric Guitar Phase is worth hearing for a re-interpretation of Violin Phase, because the resulting patterns sound so interesting with such a different light shone on them. Overall a very successful CD.
Reich for those who don't necessarily like Reich November 25, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This disc contains one new work by Steve Reich, one old work and two arrangements of old works. Accordingly, it is not going to be stunningly attractive to old hands, but in my opinion it could win new converts to the composer.Triple Quartet is the new work. Written for the Kronos Quartet and in this recording performed by them using overdubbing, this work contains an unusual level of dissonant harmony and of lyrical melody. The composer explains this by observing that he was introduced to the string quartets of Alfred Schnittke just as he began work on the music, and certainly it sounds to me as if the Mesto from Schnittke's second quartet is being constantly refracted and re-examined in the three movements of this work. This is a strong work, though not quite of the calibre of Reich's previous Kronos piece, the outstanding Different Trains. Electric Guitar Phase goes back to one of Reich's seminal classics, Violin Phase, written in 1967 when minimalism was pure and uncluttered. The current recording is of an arrangement of that work for four multi-tracking guitars. I don't feel it adds anything to the original--one of Reich's most extreme essays but also one of his most important works--nor that it is as effective as Electric Counterpoint. Nonetheless, for a new listener coming to Reich for the first time, it might be more palatable than the violin version. More accessible is the 1977 piece Music for Large Ensemble, which has always sounded to me like a pendant--a good pendant, though--to Music for Eighteen Musicians from the previous year. The version here is different from the one on the old ECM recording, taking as it does the 1977 original version instead of the 1979 revised version, with Alan Pierson, the conductor on this performance, editing some of the parts. I don't have a strong preference between the two recordings--the present recording has a more generally beautiful sound, but the ECM recording is more tense rhythmically. This disc ends with Tokyo/Vermont Counterpoint, an arrangement for MIDI marimbas of the multi-flute Vermont Counterpoint. It's good-humoured, but once again not as sonically interesting as the original piece. This isn't an essential Reich disc (if I had to own only one Reich disc, it would be the Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint recording), but the Triple Quartet may well attract even listeners not particularly partial to the minimalist aesthetic.
 Worth it for Electric Guitar Phase. May 22, 2003
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
The rest of it is actually pretty boring. not boring like the desert music though so it's okay.
 wow! March 12, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Steve Reich is such a great creative genius. The title piece, Triple Quartet, is very new music for Steve Reich. One factor in this was that just before & during composition of this piece he heard Schnittke for this first time. It's different from other music by Reich, but it's also quintissentially Reich. To me it kind of feels like a caravan, camels & sands & silks & all. It's the Kronos Quartet playing over 2 tapes of themselves.Electric Guitar Phase is a rescoring of Violin Phase, & it sounds very different from the original. The electric guitar, with some distortion, is certainly a change. The Music for a Large Ensemble on this cd is a revised version of the original piece, & it does sound very different. Good work, Reich, I do prefer the new version on this cd. Tokyo/Vermont Counterpoint is crazy music. This & Electric Guitar Phase are the 2 pieces on this great cd that feel extremely futuristic in different ways. After numerous times people tried to perform it, this is the only one to satisfy Steve Reich. I wouldn't recommend this cd as an introduction to Steve Reich's music, but for established fans it's very exciting new music from a protean composer.
Great recycle and new materials June 4, 2002
Here you get a lot of Reich minimalist styles over the years.Kronos play -as usual- well on this one in Bartok style and they taped themself and overdubbed it with a stunning result. about the guitar piece... well I prefer Jeff Beck do stuff like this but it grows and... why nt? but for me it this albums weak point so I, because of this guitar track, was consider give this record a four star insted of five. The best is the two last splendid minimalist pices for large orchestra and that midiplayed Japanese/Vermont piece. Great sound and a good start for a newie to Riech music. Other here on Amazon complain about that most of it is "old" stuff... yes it is but it is improved, revised and comes with a better sound so if you are intrested in modern american minimalist music dont hesitate to grab this.
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