IDAGIO | Steve Reich - Duet 886446025087

Featuring

Kristjan Järvi
Waltraut Wächter
Andreas Hartmann
Steve Reich
MDR Sinfonieorchester
MDR Rundfunkchor

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Composition History

The album features the world premiere recordings of the orchestral-choral versions of Daniel Variations and You Are (Variations).

Cultural Impact

Steve Reich's inventions have had a direct or indirect impact on musicians across many genres, including DJs, rock, pop, jazz, classical, ambient, electronica, and avant-garde artists.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Steve Reich has integrated technology and current musical trends throughout his career, from analogue tape looping and phasing to hip hop sampling and processing Radiohead songs.

Composer Biography

Steve Reich, born in New York in 1936, is considered one of the most original musical thinkers of our time and has altered the direction of musical history.

Recording & Production

This album is the result of a three-year project that began with Steve Reich's first-ever composer-in-residence position with an orchestra, the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Composition History

The texts for You Are (Variations) are settings of aphorisms from diverse sources, including a Hasidic mystic, Psalm XVI, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, and the Talmud.

Composition History

Duet for two Solo Violins and String Orchestra was dedicated to Sir Yehudi Menuhin, a renowned violinist, for his 80th birthday and to his ideals of international understanding.