Octet; Music for a Large Ensemble; Violin Phase

by Steve Reich

Type: Album
Released: September 1980
Label: ECM New Series
Country: United States
Length: 48:29
Community rating: 4.2/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This essential ECM release beautifully captures three distinct phases of Steve Reich's pioneering career in modern classical composition. Ranging from the early, mind-bending tape loops of 'Violin Phase' to the deeply soothing, orchestrally lush 'Octet', the album is an incredibly hypnotic, mesmerizingly repetitive journey through avant-garde acoustic minimalism.

Genres

Minimalism

Descriptors: repetitive, instrumental, acoustic, minimalistic, orchestral, minimal, ensemble, strings, rhythmic

Tracklist

Credits

Steve Reich - primary artist, composed by, sleeve notes, piano
Barbara Wojirsch - design [cover design], cover [cover design]
Martin Wieland - engineer
Steve Reich And Musicians - performer [performed by]
Deborah Feingold - photography by [photos]
Manfred Eicher - producer [produced by]
Chris Finckel - cello
Michael Finckel - cello
Richard Cohen - clarinet
Virgil Blackwell - clarinet, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, piccolo flute
Judy Sugarman - double bass
Lewis Paer - double bass
Mort Silver - flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, piccolo flute
Gary Schall - marimba
Glen Velez - marimba
Richard Schwarz - marimba
Russ Hartenberger - marimba
Edmund Niemann - piano
Larry Karush - piano
Nurit Tilles - piano
Ed Joffe - soprano saxophone
Vincent Gnojek - soprano saxophone
Douglas Hedwig - trumpet
James Dooley - trumpet
James Hamlin - trumpet
Marshall Farr - trumpet
James Preiss - vibraphone
Claire Bergman - viola
Ruth Siegler - viola
Robert Chausow - violin
Shem Guibbory - violin
Elizabeth Arnold - voice
Jay Clayton - voice
Bob Becker - xylophone
David Van Tieghem - xylophone