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Ensemble Signal, Brad Lubman - Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians (2015)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 11 Feb 2024 12:05:23

As more ensembles perform and record Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, its status as a minimalist masterpiece is increasingly affirmed. Ensemble Signal's 2015 release on Harmonia Mundi is one of several amazing performances that have matched Reich's original ECM New Series recording in technical brilliance and expressivity, and it has even earned the composer's approval for being, "…fast moving, spot on, and emotionally charged." Under the direction of Brad Lubman, Ensemble Signal maintains a relentlessly steady pulse and articulates the interlocking patterns with absolute precision, though the shifting tone colors are perhaps a little clearer in this performance than in other recordings. The microphone placement is not so close that individual instruments stand out, but there is enough separation of parts to allow some sense of direction and the orientation of the smaller sub-groups of pianos, xylophones, marimbas, strings, clarinets, and voices. This is a mesmerizing performance that will transfix listeners, and the music is so compelling that it will linger on well after the CD stops. Highly recommended.

Review by Blair Sanderson, Allmusic.com

Steve Reich’s 1976 masterpiece, one of the landmarks of 20th-century music, has already acquired its own enduring performing tradition. Music for 18 Musicians may have started out as the exclusive preserve of Reich’s own ensemble, but more and more groups now play it, and at least four fine versions of the hour-long work are available on disc. The latest, from the New York-based Ensemble Signal, is certainly one of the best so far. Signal’s director, Brad Lubman, has been one of Reich’s regular collaborators for many years (he conducted the premiere of Reich’s video opera Three Tales, for instance), and this performance with a group of young musicians – most of whom, as the sleeve note points out, would not have been born when the piece was first performed – has the perfect combination of tightly disciplined ensemble playing and creative fantasy. There’s tremendous, unstoppable energy in this performance, an urgent edge to its textures and a surging power to its thrilling climaxes, that make the greatness of the music unmistakable.

Review by Andrew Clements, The Guardian

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Tracklist:

01. Pulses (05:22)
02. Section I (04:18)
03. Section II (04:26)
04. Section IIIA (03:56)
05. Section IIIB (04:05)
06. Section IV (04:58)
07. Section V (05:23)
08. Section VI (04:37)
09. Section VII (03:42)
10. Section VIII (03:46)
11. Section IX (04:25)
12. Section X (01:32)
13. Section XI (04:07)
14. Pulses (04:32)

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Steve Reich / Music for 18 Musicians

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