Name: The Four Sections / Music For Mallet Instruments
Brand: Steve Reich

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

7559792202

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2014-10-06

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Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Warner Music Group

Tax rate GB

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Steve Reich

Genre GB

Modern Composition

Label GB

Nonesuch

The idea behind Steve Reich's The Four Sections sprang from a conversation with Michael Tilson Thomas, who suggested that he write a concerto for orchestra. As Reich explains in his insert notes, the idea of a conventional soloist-versus-orchestra concerto had never really appealed to him. However, Tilson Thomas then suggested the idea of interlocking identical instruments within the whole ensemble (in the same way that Reich had been doing for years), and so The Four Sections came into being. This recording is from 1991 and as with all Reich recordings on the Nonesuch label, offers the definitive version of both pieces contained here.

The Four Sections / Music For Mallet Instruments

Music GB