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Double Sextet/2×5 is an album by American minimalist composer Steve Reich.The album consists of two works composed by Reich, Double Sextet and 2×5. Double Sextet, which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music, is written for two identical sextets of flute, clarinet, vibraphone, piano, violin and cello.
Double Sextet is a composition by Steve Reich scored for two sextets of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, vibraphone and piano. [1] It won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music , [ 2 ] the first for the composer. [ 3 ]
A recording of 2×5 by Bang on a Can was released on September 14, 2010 along with Reich's Pulitzer Prize-winning Double Sextet on the album Double Sextet/2×5.. Another recording of 2×5, performed by Mats Bergström, Magnus Persson, Jonas Ostholm, Johan Liljedahl, and Svante Henryson, was released in 2012 by Mats Bergström Musik.
At age 86, composer Steve Reich is going strong with a collaboration with painter Gerhard Richter and other recent works at the L.A. Phil, among other projects.
Stephen Michael Reich (/ r aɪ ʃ / RYSHE; [1] [2] better-known as Steve Reich, born October 3, 1936) is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures , slow harmonic rhythm , and canons .
Two percussionists double on piano during the opening "Pulse" section. The keyboardists play both pianos and synthesizers set to an electric organ sound. The piece is broken into five movements and, like many other Reich compositions, Sextet has an arch form: A-B-C-B-A. The paired movements share a tempo and a particular cycle of chords.
Double Sextet / 2x5 (music of Steve Reich) (2010) Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (2012) Shelter (Ensemble Signal) (2013) Field Recordings (2015) References
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