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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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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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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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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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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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A classic release in which Warren-Green and his colleagues play with such passion and commitment that any Minimalist doubters will be swept along with them. Spotlessly engineered. —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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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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Sonic Wires
Katia Labèque (piano), Marielle Labèque (piano), David Chalmin (guitar), Bryce Dessner (guitar)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Innovative Listening Experience
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Reich: Mallet Quartet, Sextet, Nagoya Marimbas & Music for Pieces of Wood
RecommendedDavid Friend (piano), Oliver Hagen (piano), Sean Connors (marimba), Peter Martin (marimba), Matthew Duvall (percussion)
Third Coast Percussion
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... —
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Steve Reich: The String Quartets
Mivos Quartet (string quartet), Olivia De Prato (violin), Tyler J. Borden (cello), Victor Lowrie Tafoya (viola), Maya Bennardo (violin)
There’s an edginess to the Mivos Quartet ’s playing [in Different Trains]; lines are angular and brusque…[Triple Quartet] sounds as exciting as ever; Mivos’s recording of this distinctive piece... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Composer of the Year
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