... The Desert Music is music on an epic scale featuring huge sweeping textures and turbulent chorales set to text by Wittgenstein (whom steve studied during his philosophy major). The piece lasts some 48 minutes and is sectioned into contrasting moods and tempi. The very opening and closing movements ... Read review
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expect a wide variety of interpretive styles in different performances. Still, this recording of Tehillim, at least the third issued so far, seems sharper in focus and rhythm than the first ECM recording, the only one to include the composer's participation. The Desert Music sounds somewhat different here from its premiere Nonesuch recording by Michael Tilson Thomas with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and Chorus--the ensembles it was written for. This "revised chamber version" by the composer from 2001 uses smaller forces, losing something in grandeur while gaining rhythmic clarity. It's becoming obvious that Reich's music will survive his own performing career and lifetime. Here is an example of a disc with no performing ties to the composer, yet it is still extremely satisfying. It is also very well recorded and generously programmed, since the premiere recordings of the two works took up a disc each. Cantaloupe Music provides sung texts and lists of the performers but not a word of programme notes, a distinct liability in this otherwise admirable release. --Leslie Gerber
Advantages: A stunning soundworld Disadvantages: It is a long work
...makes the orchestra do. The Desert Music is music on an epic scale featuring huge sweeping textures and turbulent chorales set to text by Wittgenstein (whom steve studied during his philosophy major). The piece lasts some 48 minutes and is sectioned into contrasting moods and tempi. The very opening and closing movements are like giant pulsating waves that literally crash down over you, it truely is an amazing feeling. The orchestra pulsates to steady ... ...a vast desert, windswept and isolated, the wind rocking back and forth.
For those who know his chamber music well, then the desert music is definately the first choice for his orchestral works, followed closely by the four sections and then variations for strings, winds and keyboards.
Stunning music! ...
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