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1988, Steve Reich has long been regarded as one of the greatest contemporary composers, the American expanded his complex art by one level. Reich moved away from the minimalism that had made him great and, with his first string quartet, redefined this art form, shaped by the spirit of postmodernism, according to which – in a nutshell – everything should flow together. Reich made the four string parts in the “Different Trains” trilogy act like a machine that simulates the rhythmic rattling of the trains and confronted this sound with playful melodies and speech samples.
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The background is the train journeys that he undertook as a boy from the east to the west coast in the early 1940s after his parents had divorced. A time when in Germany Jewish boys his age were deported by the Nazis on trains. “Different Trains” is the centerpiece of this album, featuring reinterpretations of three Reich string quartets. “Triple Quartet” from 1998 is an adventurous and exhausting ride through the world of dissonance. The three parts of “WTC 9/11” combine avant-garde music with quotes from the period immediately after the attacks. The Mivos Quartet takes up the template, intensifies the composition, makes it noisy and vibrates.
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