Different Trains, Electric Counterpoint. On Different Trains, which combines string quartet with taped speech, Reich evokes his American childhood during World War II while also addressing the Holocaust. The New York Times declared it "a work of such originality that 'breakthrough' seems the only possible description. Earlier this year, Pitchfork placed Different Trains, Electric Counterpoint at No. 93 on its list of the 200 Best Albums of the 1980s. It's a "late-career masterpiece" for the composer, wrote Pitchfork's Jazz Monroe of Different Trains. Electric Counterpoint was written for Pat Metheny, who gave the world premiere performance of the piece at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in November 1987. The guitarist performs against multiple pre-recorded tape of himself-and "splendidly," said the New York Times.
Steve Reich, Kronos Quartet. WMG; LatinAutor, BMI - Broadcast Music In. UMPI" и другие авторские общества (6). Композиция. Different Trains: After the War. Исполнитель. Steve Reich, Kronos Quartet. WMG; BMI - Broadcast Music In. Electric Counterpoint.
Different Trains" composed 1988, recorded digitally August 31 - September 9, 1988 at Russian Hill Recording, San Francisco. Electric Counterpoint" composed 1987, recorded digitally September 26 - October 1, 1987 at Power Station, New York City. Includes a 12" square insert with English and German liner notes.
The disc's centerpiece is "Different Trains," a work that frames Reich's impressions of his boyhood train trips between his mother in Los Angeles and his father in New York; Reich also intersperses references to the much more harrowing train rides Jews were forced to take to Nazi concentration camps. And for some nice contrast, Reich recruits guitarist Pat Metheny to create a similarly momentous piece in "Electric Counterpoint" (Metheny plays live over a multi-tracked tape of ten guitars and two electric basses). Two fine works by Reich in his prime.
Electric Counterpoint: I. Fast by Steve Reich & Pat Metheny. 5. 30. Electric Counterpoint: II. Slow. by Steve Reich & Pat Metheny. Slow by Steve Reich & Pat Metheny. 6. Electric Counterpoint: III. Fast.
Album · 1989 · 6 Songs. Different Trains: I. America-Before the War. Steve Reich. 2. Different Trains: II. Europe-During the War. 3. Different Trains: III. After the War. 4. Electric Counterpoint: I.
Electric Counterpoint is a minimalist composition by the American composer Steve Reich. The piece consists of three movements, "Fast," "Slow", and "Fast". Reich has offered two versions of the piece: one for electric guitar and tape (the tape part featuring two electric bass guitars and up to ten electric guitars), the other for an ensemble of guitars. It was first recorded in 1987 by guitarist Pat Metheny, who made extensive use of overdubbing, and was released along with Reich's Different Trains, performed by the Kronos Quartet, on Nonesuch Records (catalogue number 979 176-2). Guitarists wishing to perform the piece may use Metheny's pre-recorded ensemble part or opt to record their own, adding the 13th guitar part in live performance.
Steve Reich Kronos Quartet Pat Metheny. Different Trains, Electric Counterpoint Condition: Very Good. Time left: 19d 12h 30m 33s. Ships to: Worldwide. Steve Reich DIFFERENT TRAINS Kronos Quartet ELECTRIC COUNTERPOINT Metheny on CD Condition: Very Good. Time left: 23d 20h 29m 53s. The second piece Different Trains is performed by the Kronos Quartet. It's essentially a mediation on the Holocaust. A excellent album for music lovers that are wanting to hear something out of the ordinary.
Kronos Quartet After The War 10:20 Electric Counterpoint 04. Pat Metheny Fast 6:51 05. Pat Metheny Slow 3:21 06. Pat Metheny Fast 4:29. Different Trains (1988) will probably go down in history as Reich's masterpiece. And deservedly so. Reich's phase-shifting minimalism is made dazzlingly entertaining in Different Trains, which is scored for string quartet and digitally sampled voices that repeat bits of speech concerning trains and Reich's experience with them growing up. The sinister part here is than some trains carried Jews to death camps. The Kronos Quartet has also never sounded better.
