CD, Reich (composer)
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The Colin Currie Group draw on the best of previous recordings, matching Ensemble Signal's attractive combination of energy, power, brilliance and precision in the first and last movements,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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There’s no doubting that [Shibe] is an artist blessed with grace to spare, and a roar that is fearsome – witness the opening section of Julia Wolfe’s LAD which screams into anguished life before... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Concept Album
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What gives Drumming (1970-71) its hypnotic allure is a sense of toppling jeopardy…Colin Currie Group’s own recording, honed through long performance practice, brings you into a magic circle... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2018, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, April 2018, Nouveauté
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Colin Currie & Steve Reich Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton
Colin Currie (percussion), Steve Reich (percussion)
Colin Currie Group, Synergy Vocals
A powerful rhythmic incisiveness and assertiveness that marked the group’s excellent recording of Drumming (5/18) is again apparent throughout… Synergy Vocals impart a beautiful, haunting performance,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Contemporary Music
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Reich: Clapping Music & other works
RecommendedRecorded live, in DSD 128fs, at LSO St Luke’s, London 30th October 2015
Neil Percy
LSO Percussion Ensemble
The LSO Percussion Ensemble’s riveting recording [of Music for Pieces of Wood] has the bonus of being live. Moreover, they take it very fast indeed…and accomplish it brilliantly. I’ve found... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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New. Joe Hisaishi Conducts
Future Orchestra Classics, The Philharmonic Chorus of Tokyo, Joe Hisaishi
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Currie’s connection with this music is unashamedly deep, bordering on the spiritual...Likewise, the listener ’s relationship with this recording is dependent on the ability to enter a place... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Reich: Three Movements & The Desert Music
Chorus sine nomine & Tonkünstler-Orchester, Niederösterreich, Kristjan Järvi
Järvi sets a new benchmark. These powerful readings infuse Reich's New York vigour with loose-limbed elegance, yet give a menacing edge to the pulsating rhythms and dynamics. Järvi does full... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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Steve Reich: Jacob's Ladder/Traveler's Prayer
RecommendedNew York Philharmonic, Synergy Vocals, Colin Currie Group, Jaap van Zweden, Colin Currie
Reich's concept of an assisted afterlife ascent is imbued with complication. Rather than represent the climb through the more musically obvious scales, Reich instead opts for hazier melodic... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th July 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Steve Reich: Collected Works
Steve Reich, Mahan Esfahani (early keyboard instruments), Steve Reich Ensemble (miscellaneous ensemble), Kronos Quartet (string quartet), Pat Metheny (guitar), Maya Beiser (cello), Colin Currie (percussion), Ensemble Intercontemporain (chamber ensemble), San Francisco Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra,...
Along the way, his music gains in social and spiritual significance; sometimes video imagery too (as in the DVD of Three Tales). But the biggest bliss for this listener came with Ensemble Signal’s... —
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The Times, Best Classical Box Sets Christmas 2025
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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26 CDs + DVD Video
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