Reich: Mallet Quartet, Sextet, Nagoya Marimbas & Music for Pieces of Wood
David Friend (piano), Oliver Hagen (piano), Sean Connors (marimba), Peter Martin (marimba), Matthew Duvall (percussion)
Third Coast Percussion
Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Third Coast’s considered approach allows them to dig deeper into Sextet’s dark, almost threatening undertow. A sense of urgency and immediacy is still maintained, however, and the transitions...
Reich: Mallet Quartet, Sextet, Nagoya Marimbas & Music for Pieces of Wood
David Friend (piano), Oliver Hagen (piano), Sean Connors (marimba), Peter Martin (marimba), Matthew Duvall (percussion)
Third Coast Percussion
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Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Third Coast’s considered approach allows them to dig deeper into Sextet’s dark, almost threatening undertow. A sense of urgency and immediacy is still maintained, however, and the transitions...
About
The “commandingly elegant” (New York Times) Third Coast Percussion makes its Cedille label debut with an 80th birthday salute to visionary American composer Steve Reich, a Pulitzer Prize winner and founding father of musical minimalism.
An album of sonic delights, Third Coast Percussion | Steve Reich offers four of the composer’s most celebrated works for percussion. In the magical Mallet Quartet, vibraphone melodies unfold over marimba rhythms. Sextet, almost symphonic in scope with two pianos added to the percussion battery, is full of surprises. The short, playful Nagoya Marimbas shows Japanese musical influence. Third Coast Percussion is joined by Eighth Blackbird’s Matthew Duvall for Music for Pieces of Wood, played on five wooden slats tuned to specific pitches for an astonishing variety of sounds.
Third Coast Percussion is “mysterious, funny, endlessly inventive and often exhilarating” (Boston Classical Review). Founded in 2005, the Chicago-based foursome comprises Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, and David Skidmore. The ensemble’s critically acclaimed discography includes Augusta Read Thomas’s Resounding Earth on New Focus Recordings and David T. Little’s Haunt of Last Nightfall on the New Amsterdam label.
Contents and tracklist
- Third Coast Percussion
- David Friend, Oliver Hagen
- Third Coast Percussion
- Sean Connors, Peter Martin
- Matthew Duvall
- Third Coast Percussion
Awards and reviews
June 2016
Third Coast’s considered approach allows them to dig deeper into Sextet’s dark, almost threatening undertow. A sense of urgency and immediacy is still maintained, however, and the transitions between each movement are well coordinated. The same level of care is evident in the more recent Mallet Quartet…[and] the intuitive rhythmic empathy between players that’s key in performing Reich’s music is also evident…a really impressive debut
