Steve Reich: Sextet; Six Marimbas

Steve Reich (Composer), Manhattan Marimba Quartet (Performer), Nexus (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Manhattan Marimba Quartet, Nexus
• Composer: Steve Reich
• Audio CD (May 28, 1992)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nonesuch
• ASIN: B000005IY0
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,559 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #24 in Music > Dance & DJ > Techno > Minimal Techno

Track Listings

1. 1st Movement

2. 2nd Movement

3. 3rd Movement

4. 4th Movement

5. 5th Movement

6. Six Marimbas (rearranged version of "Six Pianos") [1973-86]

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A New Page for Steve Reich, September 3, 1999

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This review is from: Steve Reich: Sextet; Six Marimbas (Audio CD)

Sextet/Six Marimbas represents a certain pinnacle in Steve Reich's career. While Six Marimbas is still classic minimalism (a necessary re-scoring of Six Pianos), Sextet is one of the most remarkable pieces of the last fifteen years. The piece more successfully integrates minimalist technique to the mainstream language of classical music, especially in the Third Movement. It also accomplishes a rare feat with percussion instruments: notes are given length, especially in the bowed vibraphone. The liner notes further explain Reich's composition ideas, but that isn't essential to enjoying the piece. Overall, Sextet successfully unites several academic ideas to produce beautiful sounding music.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful music, June 19, 2006

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Chris (Alameda, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Steve Reich: Sextet; Six Marimbas (Audio CD)

I first heard this music on the BBC in a tent on the north west coast of Scotland in a freezing winter gale. But they didn't back announce it, so I had no clue what I just listened to. For years all I had was the memory of this gorgeous sound circling in my head, if you listen to it you'll understand. Eventually a percussionist/tenor/conductor friend identified it from my description and I bought it the next day. This is such a wonderful overloaded harmony I just wish there was much more music like this. There aren't many pieces of music that have ever made such an impression on me that I searched for years and remember exactly where and how I first heard it. For me Sextet is the lesser of the two pieces, but still well worth having even if it was the only thing on the disk. This is a wonderful clean clear recording, buy it!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great CD, September 25, 2004

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This review is from: Steve Reich: Sextet; Six Marimbas (Audio CD)

Great cd, two great pieces by a master of the style. I write this review to rather pedantically correct other reviewers in that it is a bowed *vibraphone*, not bowed *marimba*, used to such interesting effect in the 'Sextet', as is made clear in the liner notes.