Pulitzer Prize-winning American minimalist and living legend, Steve Reich, is both an influential composer and a fast-talking New Yorker. For this New Sounds, he presents the Mivos Quartet’s recording of his complete works for string quartet (Triple Quartet, Different Trains and WTC 9/11.)
Reich first began to layer multiples of instruments in works like New York Counterpoint and Electric Counterpoint, before considering the string quartet as single composite instrument, and those multiples of the violins, viola, and cello. Hear the purity of the multiple quartet idea in his Triple Quartet, as played by Mivos Quartet, who are violinists Olivia De Prato and Maya Bennardo, violist Victor Lowrie Tafoya, and cellist Tyler J. Borden.
All three works were originally written for Kronos Quartet, and many quartets who perform and record these works, usually play to the Kronos pre-recordings. However Mivos Quartet re-recorded ALL of the pre-recorded parts. Reich describes how Mivos leans forward into the beat, which gives the feeling of pushing the speed and contributes more energy to the performance, even though the tempo is played as marked. The new versions - and how Mivos hears them and the feel of them, are "a welcome surprise", according to Steve Reich.
Plus, hear the guitarists of Dither Quartet along with Mark Stewart and many more guitarists playing Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint, from a New Sounds Live concert at Brookfield Place, in 2015. And more. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4716, Steve Reich introduces Mivos Quartet recordings (First aired 2/15/23)
ARTIST: Mivos Quartet
WORK: Steve Reich: Triple Quartet [1:21]
RECORDING: Steve Reich The String Quartets
SOURCE: Deutche Grammophon
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ARTIST: Richard Stoltzman
WORK: Reich: New York Counterpoint [6:23]
RECORDING: New York Counterpoint
SOURCE: RCA Red Seal
INFO: Available at Amazon.com, Youtube, Spotify
ARTIST: Mivos Quartet
WORK: Different Trains I. America - Before the War [6:21]
RECORDING: Steve Reich The String Quartets
SOURCE: Deutche Grammophon
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ARTIST: Mivos Quartet
WORK: Different Trains III. After the War [10:28]
RECORDING: Steve Reich The String Quartets
SOURCE: Deutche Grammophon
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ARTIST: Mivos Quartet
WORK: WTC 9/11: II. 2010 [5:17]
RECORDING: Steve Reich The String Quartets
SOURCE: Deutche Grammophon
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ARTIST: Mivos Quartet
WORK: WTC 9/11: III. WTC [4:38]
RECORDING: Steve Reich The String Quartets
SOURCE: Deutche Grammophon
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ARTIST: Dither Quartet, Mark Stewart, et al.
WORK: Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint [1:09]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live, Brookfield Place, 2015
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: http://ditherquartet.com
ARTIST: Mivos Quartet
WORK: Steve Reich: Triple Quartet: III [3:24]
RECORDING: Steve Reich The String Quartets
SOURCE: Deutche Grammophon
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ARTIST: Jennifer Grim
WORK: Julia Wolfe: Oxygen [10:35]
RECORDING: Through Broken Time
SOURCE: New Focus Recordings
INFO: newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com
