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In the afterglow of his 60th birthday in 1997, Nonesuch Records delivered Steve Reich and his listeners an immense gift, this 10-CD retrospective of his work for the label, extending from his earliest tape-manipulation pieces to his most recent compositions utilizing samplers and the video artistry of Beryl Korot. Aside from the ear’s liquid sense-making when it hears the dense and limber marimbas of Reich’s Six Marimbas or his taut, dizzying Piano Phase,… More >>

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