Steve Reich
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4 out of 5 stars.The Hallé’s celebration of the 87-year-old composer, curated by percussionist Colin Currie, opened with masterly performances of his intricate works, including the shimmeringly beautiful Music for Ensemble and Orchestra
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4 out of 5 stars.
Steve Reich: Reich/Richter review – intricate riffs on the rhythms of painter’s abstract film
4 out of 5 stars.The patterns of a work by Gerhard Richter inspire one of Reich’s most impressive recent pieces, elegantly performed in 2020
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4 out of 5 stars.
The week in classical: Oxford Lieder festival; Colin Currie Group premieres Steve Reich
4 out of 5 stars.Absolutely nothing is off-limits as Oxford’s fearless festival of song hits 20. And Steve Reich at 85 explores the road less travelled -
4 out of 5 stars.Built around a new piece by the 85-year-old composer unlike anything he has written before, this was an exhilarating occasion
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Our critic enjoys a masterly, socially distanced first night of the Proms, a new series by Opera North made to listen as you walk and a striking Met performance by Lise Davidsen
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An outstanding disc of piano trios from Gluzman, Moser and Sudbin, a world premiere Debussy recording from the Hallé, and Steve Reich at MoMA
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4 out of 5 stars.Harrison Birtwistle’s monumental early opera is revived in an epic tussle between myth, meaning, the lustrous and the lurid
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3 out of 5 stars.An ever-shifting new composition by Steve Reich is set to a Rorschach-like new film by Gerhard Richter, with wonderfully disorientating, hypnotic results
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Over the coming week, the Guardian will select the greatest culture since 2000, carefully compiled by critics and editors. We begin with a countdown of defining classical music compositions, from X-rated opera to high-tech string quartets
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4 out of 5 stars.Vale of Glamorgan festival celebrates its 50th with mesmerising performances on wine glasses, electronic inventions and a Dutch street organ named Astrid
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The escalators need fixing and there’s no bar – but the show must go on, as stars from Ben Whishaw to Steve McQueen open NYC’s first major new arts venue for decades
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4 out of 5 stars.
The week in classical: Akhnaten; Music for 18 Musicians; Britten Sinfonia; LSO/Gardiner – review
4 out of 5 stars.Minimalism becomes spectacle in ENO’s entrancing Philip Glass revival, while many hands make hypnotically light work of Steve Reich
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1 out of 5 stars.A programme of new works was consistent only in how it disappointed, with Järvi’s own overlong composition particularly trying
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Exclusive: exhibition looks back on London cultural centre’s legacy through 50 years of archive material
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Conductor Charles Hazlewood on the sounds that sparked a cultural revolution and redrew musical boundaries
The week in classical: Manchester Classical; Alice Sara Ott and Friends: Quartet for the End of Time – review
5 out of 5 stars.