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| Music for 18 Musicians Live | 
 enlarge | Creators: Akos Pasztor, Gellert Tihanyi, Janos Maczak, Steve Reich, Amadinda Percussion Group, Aurel Hollo, Bela Farago, Gyoergy Oravecz, Karoly Bojtos, Tibor Nemes, Zoltan Racz, Laszlo Melis, Agnes Dobszay, Ida Szabo, Katalin Karolyi, Zsuzsanna Lukin, Benedek Toth
Label: Hungaroton
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 191860
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 675754692728
EAN: 0675754692728
ASIN: B00018D3LO
Release Date: January 27, 2004
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 Essential for Contemporary Music Fans November 18, 2007
This is a really splendid recording of a splendid performance. I bought the old ECM recording led by Reich when I was in college 20 years ago and liked it a lot. It's still available and still worth hearing, but I think this one is better. There's something about the atmosphere of the (live) performance that's lacking in the older recording and the sonics are excellent. This work is a real classic of contemporary music and ultimately much deeper as an exemplar of "minimalism" than the somewhat more popular works by Glass. Repeated listening reveals nuance and subtlety that make it a genuine essential, I think.
Astounding December 11, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Choose other records... July 7, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
1. This is totally subjective...
2. Your milage may vary.
3. Fast is not necessarily better. The recent recording of Alarm Will Sound illustrate that a fever pitch, while debatable in terms of fascination, does not work when the performance gets sloppy. There is the same problem in this rendering of "18."
4. Timbre is key; The real capper in this piece is the overall timbre. Commenting on this piece, Reich has alluded to the image of a seashore and waves. The classic ECM recording is the only one in my opinion that preserves this. Many of Reich's pieces, in my opinion, have suffered from too close microphone placement. The result is recordings often discribed as merely "interesting," by the uninitiated, wheras many listeners I've found are completed astounded by the ECM edition of "18." There are some interesting bits of this performance, but overall not significantly different enough from Esemble Modern's recording. I recommend that all but completists look for the original ECM CD recordig, then to Ensemble Modern.
Have just ordered, and heard great things... May 19, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Reich has said himself, (and you might want to note that he is not usually positive about Europian recordings of his own works), but he said that the Hungarians "..really know how to play this stuff!". Ive heard the first "Pulses" and it has an energetic sound, and the instruments have been captured well for a live recording. Guess I'll find out soon about the rest! Would be worth buying just to hear another version of the piece.
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