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- Date Released: October 8, 2007
- Genre: Classical
- Style: Chamber Music, 20th Century
- Label: Innova Recordings / IODA
A small group of students and volunteers plays one of the most challenging works of the late 20th century.
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We Say...
This recording may well have been classical music’s story of the year in 2007: a group of students and volunteers from the farmlands of western Michigan decides to take on one of the most important and challenging works of the late 20th century. And to the amazement of critics, listeners, the composer and perhaps even the musicians themselves, the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble actually pulls it off.
Steve Reich’s piece “Music for 18 Musicians” has a prosaic title that gives little hint of the roiling seas of interlocking melodic fragments and rhythmic patterns that make up the driving yet trancey work. Reich’s own recording, with his handpicked ensemble, debuted in 1976, and for years it was assumed that only his ensemble could negotiate the piece. Even after recent recordings by top contemporary music groups in music centers like Frankfurt and London, Reich’s urban minimalism has “New York” written all over it — or at least, it did until this band from Allentown, Michigan (population 11,000) showed up with a powerful performance that is truly a labor of love and obsession.
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| 01. |  |
Music for 18 Musicians: Pulses
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5:03 |
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| 02. | |
Music for 18 Musicians: Section I
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3:59 |
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| 03. | |
Music for 18 Musicians: Section II
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4:33 |
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| 04. | |
Music for 18 Musicians: Section IIIA
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4:09 |
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| 05. | |
Music for 18 Musicians: Section IIIB |
4:20 |
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| 06. | |
Music for 18 Musicians: Section IV
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5:34 |
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| 07. | |
Music for 18 Musicians: Section V
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6:01 |
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| 08. | |
Music for 18 Musicians: Section VI
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4:47 |
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| 09. | |
Music for 18 Musicians: Section VII
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4:06 |
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| 10. | |
Music for 18 Musicians: Section VIII
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3:28 |
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| 11. | |
Music for 18 Musicians: Section IX
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5:12 |
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| 12. | |
Music for 18 Musicians: Section X
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1:18 |
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| 13. | |
Music for 18 Musicians: Section XI
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4:23 |
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| 14. | |
Music for 18 Musicians: Pulses
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4:28 |
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14 Total Tracks, 61:21 Total Length
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