Double Sextet Excerpt - Steve Reich

Taken from NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103304036
This was taken from a live concert in 2008 played entirely live by Eighth Blackbird/Oberlin. This is an excerpt of the THIRD movement. I like most of Reich's third movements, and feel they tend to be the best ones; most exciting.

Isn't it beautiful? Steve Reich writes: By doubling an entire chamber ensemble one creates the possibility for multiple simultaneous contrapuntal webs of identical instruments. In Different Trains and Triple Quartet all instruments are strings to produce one large string fabric. In Double Sextet there is more timbral variety through the interlocking of six different pairs of percussion, string and wind instruments.

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[llamatube]

I've been a huge fan of Steve Reich for a couple years now. For even longer I've had a lingering desire to learn violin. Reich's music in particular has finally pushed me to pursue it. It's so amazing and beautiful. I'm excited. :)

[amistrymister]

@llamatube A huge reich fan would usually say they've been a reich fan for years and now they want to learn the marimba or vibes or percussion or something :P

But agreed. His music is amazing and beautiful!

[amistrymister]

CD released alongside 2x5 September 14th!

[johnnyfx82]

@amistrymister So I hope that now the people (like me) longing for the release are now satisfied and don't continue to "spam" your channel with comments ;-)

[amistrymister]

@johnnyfx82 not exactly spamming if you have something decent to say.....

and i'm not satisfied with the album to be quite honest. this recording here is 10 times better.

[BAJJMiller]

Seeing the Canadian premier of Mallet Quartet on Thursday!

[amistrymister]

@BAJJMiller Lucky you! Tell me how it turns out.

[rhymeswithgabriel]

@Roswellsounds huh? this doesn't sound cut and paste at all to me. this is i think reich's most forward thinking piece yet. it's a huge diversion from his style, which is already radically varying from piece to piece. i really don't know what you're talking about, honestly

[llamatube]

@amistrymister Haha maybe, Reich still uses lots of violin. Check this great remix/video out, you might enjoy it: watch?v=GzK5_SA6x5Y&fmt=35

[johnnyfx82]

@amistrymister with "spamming" I mean the kind of "When will the CD be released" messages. ;-) Could you point out and describe exactly what do you miss in the recording compared to this one posted here? (You can also write a personal message to me...) Thx

[Roswellsounds]

I´ll always enjoy Reich´s works, but he has been copying himself for a long time. Well, almost everyone who developed his own style ends up doing that! You can´t reinvent yourself in a 40 year segment. Discover and develope your ideas further.

But maybe there is a time when you must throw it all away, specially if your new works sound like you´re doin´a "cut&paste" of your previous projects...