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- Artist(s): Jonny Greenwood, Vicky Chow, Alarm Will Sound
- Summary: The latesyt release from the minimalist composer includes performances from Jonny Greenwood, Alarm Will Sound, and Vicky Chow as well as a five-movement piece based on Radiohead's Radio Rewrite.
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- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Genre(s): Classical, Avant-Garde, Chamber Music, Modern Composition
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Oct 10, 2014Like a lot of Reich’s work, the music suggests forward momentum, but with Radio, the movement is in a much more oblong fashion.
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Oct 10, 2014An intriguing album that considers fundamental questions about how music is inspired, interpreted and created.
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Q MagazineNov 13, 2014For those yet to experience Reich's unique soundscapes, this is as good a place to start as any. [Dec 2014, p.115]
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Oct 10, 2014When Reich's music quietly departs from its source material, the piece achieves lift off, as the form fades and the piece settles into a seething, anxious rhythm of its own.
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Oct 10, 2014It does what it does immaculately and satisfyingly.... But Piano Counterpoint seems less successful; that’s nothing to do with Vicky Chow’s playing, but because this arrangement for solo piano (again with multiple pre-recorded partners) of Reich’s 1973 piece Six Pianos seems to lose so much of the muscular energy of the original.