Quatuor Bozzini: Steve Reich: Different Trains (CD): description

Steve Reich: Different Trains

Quatuor Bozzini

Steve Reich: Different Trains

Collection QB | CQB 0502 | 2005

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Steve Reich: Different Trains

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On October 13th, 2005 DAME is proud to present the second Collection QB release: Different Trains by Steve Reich performed by Quatuor Bozzini. A major opus in Reich’s body of work, Different Trains pioneered in 1968 a new form of composition developed from his earlier tape pieces It’s Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966).

The idea for the piece came from Reich’s childhood. His parents separated when he was one year old. His mother moved to Los Angeles, while his father stayed in New York. Since they had arranged divided custody, he often traveled back and forth between those two cities, with his governess, in the years 1939-1942. He composed the piece keeping in mind that, as a Jew, he would have found himself in a different situation had he been living in Europe at the time.

The work consists of a prerecorded tape assembled from the voices of various people reminiscing about the Holocaust, sounds of American and European trains from the ‘30s and ‘40s, and three different string quartets. In addition to the tape is a fourth string quartet part for a live quartet. Quatuor Bozzini decided to offer a new reading of the work, including its very own recording of the three taped string quartets, a first ever since the premiere 1988 recording of the work, by the Kronos Quartet. Quatuor Bozzini embarked on this new reading after being advised to do so by Steve Reich himself.

Quatuor Bozzini’s Different Trains turns a new page in the history of contemporary music. It provides a new landmark. A new must-have for you to discover.

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Different Trains (Reich) (1988)

27m02s
1

America—Before the War

9m00s
2

Europe—During the War

7m30s
3

After the War

10m32s

Total duration

27m02s

UCC 771028350223

Quatuor Bozzini: Steve Reich: Different Trains (CD): description

Prices are in Canadian dollars — 1.00 CAD ~ 0.94 USA ~ 0.74 EUR ~ 0.61 GBP ~ 79.6 JPY ~ 1.5 AUD ~ 5.51 DKK ~ 5.91 NOK ~ 6.93 SEK — and include handling, shipping and applicable taxes.


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