"Contemporary recordings (1997-98) of these seminal live-instrument-hocket works, recorded by the Leipzig Ensemble Avant Garde (Michael Obst, Stefan Sopora, Klaus Steffes-Hollander, Josef Christof) under the direction of noted 20c repertoire pianist Stefen Schleiermacher. Any new recording of classic Reich is reason alone for rejoice; here we've not only gotten full-bandwidth recordings (and bang-up performances) of the under recorded (at least in the last 20 years or so) 'Piano Phase' (1966, for two pianos), 'Phase Patterns' (1970, for four electric organs) and 'Four Organs' (1970, for four electric organs and maracas) (with an average time of 17 minutes each), but THREE separate takes of 'Pendulum Music' (1968, for microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers and performers). Nifty new design for Wergo (w/fonts nicked out of the DR oeuvre) to boot. Completely necessary." --Hrvatski
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Tracklist
1 Phase Patterns 15:25
Organ ? Josef Christof, Klaus Steffes-Hollander, Michael Obst, Steffen Schleiermacher
2 Pendulum Music (I) 4:38
Electronics ? Martin Demmler, Steffen Schleiermacher
3 Piano Phase 17:46
Piano ? Josef Christof, Steffen Schleiermacher
4 Pendulum Music (II) 5:01
Electronics ? Martin Demmler
5 Four Organs 18:36
Maracas ? Stefan StoporaOrgan ? Josef Christof, Klaus Steffes-Hollander, Michael Obst, Steffen Schleiermacher
6 Pendulum Music (III) 4:38
Electronics ? Martin Demmler, Steffen Schleiermacher
Credits
Composed By ? Steve Reich
Edited By, Mastered By ? Ricarda Molder
Engineer ? Peter Avar
Ensemble ? Ensemble Avantgarde
Liner Notes ? Volker Straebel
Liner Notes [English Translation] ? John Patrick Thomas, W. Richard Rieves
Liner Notes [French Translation] ? Martine Paulauskas
Photography By ? Wolfgang Hoff
Producer [Redaktion] ? Martin Demmler
Recording Supervisor [Tonmeister] ? Wolfgang Hoff
Notes
? Phase Patterns, for four electric organ (1970)
? Pendulum Music, for microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers and performers (1968) [the first and second versions on this disc are recorded with four microphones]
? Piano Phase, for two pianos (1966)
? Four Organs, for four electric organs and maracas (1970).
Recording:
Apex-Studio Leipzig, 15.-16. November 1997 (1, 5)
Saal 3 des SFB, 5. November 1997 (3), 9. April 1998 (2, 4, 6)
Includes a 30 page booklet in German, English and French.
Total playing time: 67.25.
