I just discovered this gem by watching andre 3000 interview with GQ. This is the music ive have been waiting for my entire life. what the hell im doing why only now.
Hope it went well for you. I'm getting off 1.5 years prescribed use of Benzodiazepines listening to this. 2 more days and I'm at 0mg. This music sounds like it's trying to describe the chaos of nature into something ordered. Surprisingly it's very soothing to me.
First time recognizing, from about 14:00 , instrumental overtones sounding like human voices, Instruments and voices melting into another, absolutely amazing. Deep, peaceful, soothing atmosphere.
Timestamps for the different movements (including transitions from the vibraphone): 00:08 - Pulses 04:07 - Section I 07:58 - Section II 12:33 - Section IIIA 16:14 - Section IIIB 20:27 - Section IV 25:15 - Section V 30:45 - Section VI 34:52 - Section VII, my favourite! :D 38:51 - Section VIII 42:32 - Section IX 47:03 - Section X 48:22 - Section XI 52:36 - Pulses
The harmonies and rhythms and cycles and loops of this musical piece transported me into a different realm. This is the closest i've been of an out of body experience. What a magistral composition.
I love the singer's reaction at 13:50 while she's waiting for the transition and then the smile when it comes. That's my favourite part of the piece and she's got a look of such genuine enthusiasm on her face.
This is one of the best performances I've seen in a long time. Thank you! I really don't get the negative comments here. Stop projecting your personal tastes into harsh judgement against these beautiful performers. Perhaps let go of analyzing what you think is the technical way of doing stuff and instead, pour yourself a drink, sit back and let yourself be taken on a journey. The bass clarinets are terrific - their tone gives it an emotional depth. They don't drag, they give it weight. I never understand people squeezing the joy out of music by turning it in to a clinical assessment. There's nothing 'unlistenable' about this at all - quite the opposite! How do you think the performers would feel if they read your harsh and unnecessary comment? When the bass clarinets come in it hits the spot for me! This is music without ego (unlike some of the comments here). When you watch these lovely performers, its like they're one unit. This is what I love about Steve Reich's music and the musicians who gravitate towards performing his work. The music works because the performers support each other.
L'art musical de Steve Reich est de permettre à tous les interprètes d'un groupe ou orchestre, de différents milieux et origines, présents sur la scène, de se soutenir mutuellement pendant la durée de la composition musicale, qui apparait au premier champ répétitive alors qu'en fait elle est traversée d'une série dynamique de figures très différentes, comme l'univers des vagues, ou des tempêtes, océaniques. Et nous sentons ce plaisir infatigable à observer tant les mouvements des vagues que des musiciens, splendides ICI pour chacun et chacune. Merci. Et pour les auditeurs de devenir des anges en restant attentifs pour repérer les multiples pulsions et variations musicales. Merci encore. Comme, je dirais, si un même texte était lu symphoniquement et en même temps en différentes langues. La musique de SR est sans égo, une mélodie de la biodiversité éclatante et permanente d'amours, où chaque élément particulier est fondé tout en sachant son interdépendance et sa temporalité. Merci SR votre musique est hollocénique (décarbonée, très naturelle). ET donnez nous de nouvelles œuvres
I had the pleasure of seeing the world performance of this piece at Avery Fisher Hall in NYC in the early 1970's. It was stunning-then as now. Go Owls!
Only 18 Musicians? I keep forgetting that it's only 18; alas - I should have made it 200 musicians! Maybe next time I write something like this, I will. Stellar performance, friends. Say hi to Mr. Vic Firth for me. I proclaim (via UA-cam comment) that this performance is probably one of the best ones out there - it's a way better piece than Clapping Music, anyway.
Like pairs of animals finding each other at dawn at a pond at the changing of a season, some of these musicians are doplegangers of each other as following the mesmerizing music and nature of life. Thank you for posting this beautiful piece that makes me still desire to be creative.
Absolutely Brilliant! My favorite is section IX onwards. Just floored with the interplay between the vocals and the bass clarinets. I love watching the clarinet lady who sways with the music and enjoying every minute of it.
What a masterpiece. Had the chance to see this being played in Frankfurt some years ago. It was amazing. Fell asleep in between because this music is so relaxing in some kind of way
True World of Art - what an amazing experience in sound and picture! I'm so grateful to being able to watch and listen to that allround perfomance. Every single time. Thanks!
Wow! Superb!! At least as good as the performance on the Steve Reich CD, at least. It remains a classic masterpiece of the greatest minimalist composer. What's more, when I was at Univ, I performed the vocal part in another great work by Reich. To be present at a performance of a Reich piece is wonderful But to be 'inside' such music is something else. THANK YOU for evoking an unforgettable experience.
Je connais cette musique depuis de nombreuses années et elle me fascine toujours dès les premières notes, avec en général une interprétation de qualité, c'est sublime, merci.
One of my enduring fantasies is to have this piece performed outside on a early summer night in the country for a few of my fiends...for the shear beauty...and to listen to hear if the peepers join in.
This piece reminds me of the cycles of life itself. From the circadian rhythm, to heartbeats, to the seasons and the recycling of matter and energy. These cycles are constant and static, much like this piece
4:20 is so beatiful it makes me tear up with every listen. I just love closing my eyes and imagining a green utopia where nothing else but life and beauty matter
I listen to this piece, and then I go into my kitchen, where I have an infrared tower heater. When the oscillation is turned on, it makes a pulsing sound, just like the piece, and it phases in and out as it sweeps across the room.
Love it! I have been playing the drums since age 7 and also studied drums/music in school. I can hear some wonderful counterpoint that is applicable on the drums. Nice!
I discovered through this performance the staccato voice parts can be achieved by a forward and away, or a side to side movement. The method used here is new to me.
Wauw....just....wauw!! One of my absolut favourite Reich pieces and this version is absolutely fantastic! Ensamble work is fantastic to watch, although I must admit I fell very much in love with the female Clarinet player; musicality, passion, movement
this is me waking up in the morning knowing i have a world of work ahead of me and i must keep a steady pace as the clock is already running and i'm rushing just to keep up with it. absolutely lovely this is. (not a knock on the younger gen per se, but you almost have to be of a certain age to appreciate, not understand, this kind of music.)
Two of my favorite moments. I also like the very beginning of section 1 where the pulse beat starts contrasting with the syncopation, in pure excitement .
My favourite section is no V where it dies down to the interwoven texture of the 4 pianos and especially around 28:30. The section sounds as if it's in a two-lots-of-three (6/4) time signature and he suddenly changes what the marimbas are playing so it becomes three lots of two (3/2) and then at 29:00 the voices and bass clarinets come in to consolidate it as if to say, yes, you really did hear that. And it's like he's just shown you how the universe works or something...
I don't have the ear training skills to parse out this section with the precision of @guscarins1, but I do know that, when I try to verbalize why I love the moment that starts at 29:24, when the sopranos shift into that second melody, still following the marimbas, I choke up with emotion. There's something so exquisite, joyous, and life-affirming about it. And of all the performances I've heard of this piece, these performers really dig into the complexity possible in section V the most ambitiously, if that's the way to describe their motivation.
Ce qu'il y a de plus réel pour les musiciens inspirés, ce sont les illusions qu'ils créent avec leurs musiques. Le reste n'est que sable mouvant .. It's looks like a mosquito that bumps while flying desperately on a wall in a confined atmosphere 🐾
hats off to the marimba player who played every second eight note for almost an hour
LOL true.... :)
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they rotate those parts to different players to not wear them out.
they sure didn't for me when i played every second eighth note for an hour! (there's a break around sections V and VI anyways.)
I just referred to that as the "ska" part to my friend. "Only play the `ands'."
If stranded on an island with one musical composition to listen to …… this one gets the blue ribbon
I just discovered this gem by watching andre 3000 interview with GQ. This is the music ive have been waiting for my entire life. what the hell im doing why only now.
I thought that I could study with this music but I'm giving permanently attention to the performance and music. Its sooo hypnotizing
Proc-reich-stination
I'm in the middle of esketamine treatments for severe depression and this is what I listen to during them; it's a beautiful experience.
Great choice, I hope your recovery is successful. There's so many beautiful things on this world that are worth experiencing.
Hope it went well for you. I'm getting off 1.5 years prescribed use of Benzodiazepines listening to this. 2 more days and I'm at 0mg. This music sounds like it's trying to describe the chaos of nature into something ordered. Surprisingly it's very soothing to me.
First time recognizing, from about 14:00 , instrumental overtones sounding like human voices, Instruments and voices melting into another, absolutely amazing. Deep, peaceful, soothing atmosphere.
Love the body language in the two vocalists who exhibit so much joy in performing and listening to this. Amazing performance
Timestamps for the different movements (including transitions from the vibraphone):
00:08 - Pulses
04:07 - Section I
07:58 - Section II
12:33 - Section IIIA
16:14 - Section IIIB
20:27 - Section IV
25:15 - Section V
30:45 - Section VI
34:52 - Section VII, my favourite! :D
38:51 - Section VIII
42:32 - Section IX
47:03 - Section X
48:22 - Section XI
52:36 - Pulses
42:32 - Section IX
excellent shout on Section VII
thank you!!
Section VII is the absolute release of joy.
VII is also my favorite
I might add that the lighting, and positioning of the camera is brilliant as well. Each frame is like a renaissance painting. Beauty!
The harmonies and rhythms and cycles and loops of this musical piece transported me into a different realm. This is the closest i've been of an out of body experience. What a magistral composition.
I love the singer's reaction at 13:50 while she's waiting for the transition and then the smile when it comes. That's my favourite part of the piece and she's got a look of such genuine enthusiasm on her face.
Ah. Dangerous thing for her to do in this piece. Enjoy anything too much and your emotions might screw up the tempo or your counting.
@@ems7623I didn’t know a comment this pretentious was even possible. Congratulations.
@@jtfoog5220 Maybe pretentious but it's not completely wrong ! For all the others musicians it's the key : don't loose your tempo and focus !
@@jtfoog5220how is it pretentious?
I used this during a special spinning (indoor cycling) class. Non-stop for one hour. Amazing cadence and workout and meditative effect on top of it
An impeccable performance of one of Reich's most mesmerising pieces. Bravo.
this music gives me instant goosebumps
This is one of the best performances I've seen in a long time. Thank you! I really don't get the negative comments here. Stop projecting your personal tastes into harsh judgement against these beautiful performers. Perhaps let go of analyzing what you think is the technical way of doing stuff and instead, pour yourself a drink, sit back and let yourself be taken on a journey. The bass clarinets are terrific - their tone gives it an emotional depth. They don't drag, they give it weight. I never understand people squeezing the joy out of music by turning it in to a clinical assessment. There's nothing 'unlistenable' about this at all - quite the opposite! How do you think the performers would feel if they read your harsh and unnecessary comment? When the bass clarinets come in it hits the spot for me! This is music without ego (unlike some of the comments here). When you watch these lovely performers, its like they're one unit. This is what I love about Steve Reich's music and the musicians who gravitate towards performing his work. The music works because the performers support each other.
ignore the negative trolling, . You and I both know this is brilliant. And thankyou for pointing it out to the trolls. Bless
If you won't allow harsh judgement against it, then why should you support harsh judgement for it.
When I first got struck by the Reich lightning bolt of sound I was an instant charred angel of devotion….
I don't see a single negative comment to be honest
Yi
This is the very Pulse of the Universe, beautifully performed. Thankyou. It brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it.
Obviously a masterpiece.
😎🎹
This really is wonderful, mind-bending stuff. Of all the American minimalists Steve Reich is surely the king.
*Philip Glass has entered the chat*
Meh
This is soooo beautiful! I adore this album. It makes me fly. What a masterpiece!
L'art musical de Steve Reich est de permettre à tous les interprètes d'un groupe ou orchestre, de différents milieux et origines, présents sur la scène, de se soutenir mutuellement pendant la durée de la composition musicale, qui apparait au premier champ répétitive alors qu'en fait elle est traversée d'une série dynamique de figures très différentes, comme l'univers des vagues, ou des tempêtes, océaniques. Et nous sentons ce plaisir infatigable à observer tant les mouvements des vagues que des musiciens, splendides ICI pour chacun et chacune. Merci.
Et pour les auditeurs de devenir des anges en restant attentifs pour repérer les multiples pulsions et variations musicales. Merci encore.
Comme, je dirais, si un même texte était lu symphoniquement et en même temps en différentes langues.
La musique de SR est sans égo, une mélodie de la biodiversité éclatante et permanente d'amours, où chaque élément particulier est fondé tout en sachant son interdépendance et sa temporalité. Merci SR votre musique est hollocénique (décarbonée, très naturelle). ET donnez nous de nouvelles œuvres
the transitions in the metalophone give me goosebumps every time lol xD
I had the pleasure of seeing the world performance of this piece at Avery Fisher Hall in NYC in the early 1970's. It was stunning-then as now. Go Owls!
This piece was first performed in 1976
@@ohdontchaknow So it was.1976. Columbia University (?)
@@mitchellschmidt9282 indubitably
🎺❗🎹 🎻 🖥️ 2023 and still magnetizing 👂👁️🎯 Awesome ‼️‼️💎💎💎
Ingenious, amazingly inventive and truly fabulous to watch as well as listen to Steve Reich's work.
My favorite minimalist work. To be honest, I feel like after this there was not much left to be said in this genre.
Merveilleusement hypnotique. Wonderful.
This composition has fascinated me for 20 + years. I would love to see the sheet music.
Voilà 45 ans que j'écoute cette oeuvre magistrale, pas encore lassé
Une œuvre magistrale et... magique...! A magical Masterpiece...!
Only 18 Musicians? I keep forgetting that it's only 18; alas - I should have made it 200 musicians! Maybe next time I write something like this, I will. Stellar performance, friends. Say hi to Mr. Vic Firth for me. I proclaim (via UA-cam comment) that this performance is probably one of the best ones out there - it's a way better piece than Clapping Music, anyway.
I don't think you'd get the same locked in rhythms or the same feeling of precision with a large ensemble.
This music always makes me feel so happy and content.
Like pairs of animals finding each other at dawn at a pond at the changing of a season, some of these musicians are doplegangers of each other as following the mesmerizing music and nature of life. Thank you for posting this beautiful piece that makes me still desire to be creative.
Absolutely Brilliant! My favorite is section IX onwards. Just floored with the interplay between the vocals and the bass clarinets. I love watching the clarinet lady who sways with the music and enjoying every minute of it.
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What a masterpiece. Had the chance to see this being played in Frankfurt some years ago. It was amazing. Fell asleep in between because this music is so relaxing in some kind of way
True World of Art - what an amazing experience in sound and picture! I'm so grateful to being able to watch and listen to that allround perfomance. Every single time. Thanks!
this is my music homework 🧍♀️
Wow! Superb!! At least as good as the performance on the Steve Reich CD, at least. It remains a classic masterpiece of the greatest minimalist composer. What's more, when I was at Univ, I performed the vocal part in another great work by Reich. To be present at a performance of a Reich piece is wonderful But to be 'inside' such music is something else. THANK YOU for evoking an unforgettable experience.
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Beautiful piece and performance. Many thanks for posting
I think this is one of my favourite pieces of music ever! Great performance as well! Just magic!
It is my favorite , it has helped me feel life is
...good, is profound. So beautiful.
Hypnotic as a shower bellow a natural tropical waterfall...
Marvellous, thankyou for posting. Incredible music, incredible performers, superbly filmed. I love it.
2021, still can't get enough of it!
Very good performance.
So hypnotic...this is putting me into a trance
Best music...my go to for New Year's at Midnight
Je connais cette musique depuis de nombreuses années et elle me fascine toujours dès les premières notes, avec en général une interprétation de qualité, c'est sublime, merci.
Beautiful. Really well done.
Superb rendition
Thanks Lev
Listening is like staring at a fire or the ocean. I could do it for hours. Or 56:29 anyway. Brilliant.
Fascinating.
This needs to be the soundtrack for a film
Yep, but Kubrick has already gone, too late!
A part of this masterpiece was used in The Hunger Games!
This is wonderfull, Very deep and pure. Steve reich is gold.
Bravissimo, talented, wonderful, young musicians!!!
a wondaful experience....
One of my enduring fantasies is to have this piece performed outside on a early summer night in the country for a few of my fiends...for the shear beauty...and to listen to hear if the peepers join in.
how cool is that?!? what a nice idea! 🙋♂️
This is PERFECT music for the current climate we are in, in lockdown with the coronavirus. Not what Steve Reich wrote it for, but it fits perfectly
This piece reminds me of the cycles of life itself. From the circadian rhythm, to heartbeats, to the seasons and the recycling of matter and energy. These cycles are constant and static, much like this piece
@@Scriabinfan593 oh yes nicely said
Mazette ! Fascinant.
The pure definition of layering
4:20 is so beatiful it makes me tear up with every listen. I just love closing my eyes and imagining a green utopia where nothing else but life and beauty matter
I listen to this piece, and then I go into my kitchen, where I have an infrared tower heater. When the oscillation is turned on, it makes a pulsing sound, just like the piece, and it phases in and out as it sweeps across the room.
Love it! I have been playing the drums since age 7 and also studied drums/music in school. I can hear some wonderful counterpoint that is applicable on the drums. Nice!
So beautiful. I never tire of it.
Music factory at work!
Much too short! This awsome piece of music should be at least 8 hours long!
maravilloso
I discovered through this performance the staccato voice parts can be achieved by a forward and away, or a side to side movement. The method used here is new to me.
Beautiful. Thank you.
Awesome it is
Trully amazing
Great for when you're on a run or trying to finish that paper
Might want to get that sponsor slogan updated.
_VIC FIRTH._
_THE PERFECT __-PAIR-__ OCTO-DECTET._
Section IV has a solemn vibe to it. Really touching.
Wauw....just....wauw!! One of my absolut favourite Reich pieces and this version is absolutely fantastic! Ensamble work is fantastic to watch, although I must admit I fell very much in love with the female Clarinet player; musicality, passion, movement
Mind-blowing performance. Thank you!
Thanks so much for posting!
hot damn this version SLAPS my guy
this is me waking up in the morning knowing i have a world of work ahead of me and i must keep a steady pace as the clock is already running and i'm rushing just to keep up with it. absolutely lovely this is. (not a knock on the younger gen per se, but you almost have to be of a certain age to appreciate, not understand, this kind of music.)
This music is such a gift.
this is truly mesmerising. brilliant :)
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Excellent, yet I'm still partial to the one by eighth blackbird. But becoming closer to this rendition. The tempo is extraordinary.
Brilliant, simply brilliant. A masterful performance of a masterpiece. Thanks for sharing.
This is like the opposite of jazz but i think if you like jazz you like this as well
I pretty much only listen to jazz. But I love this.
Magical
awesome
thank your for the very musical effort of the replication
13:55-15:00 of section 3A and 32:18-33:30 of section 6 are pure ear candy. The cello is the key to their success.
Two of my favorite moments. I also like the very beginning of section 1 where the pulse beat starts contrasting with the syncopation, in pure excitement
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Mark U I played piano 3 (player 1) once and I always LOVED these moments you have selected.
And how both of these parts are rising a listeners, unbelievable! Even part VI is starting in minor, but still brings pure enthusiasm.
Yes.
Excellent performance of the immortal masterpiece
A full moon shines over a forest as the myriad lifeforms within the canopy frolic together in a gigantic celebration of being alive.
I can't like this hard enough!
I love this music!
Best music ever ...
Beautiful!
My favourite section is no V where it dies down to the interwoven texture of the 4 pianos and especially around 28:30. The section sounds as if it's in a two-lots-of-three (6/4) time signature and he suddenly changes what the marimbas are playing so it becomes three lots of two (3/2) and then at 29:00 the voices and bass clarinets come in to consolidate it as if to say, yes, you really did hear that. And it's like he's just shown you how the universe works or something...
I don't have the ear training skills to parse out this section with the precision of @guscarins1, but I do know that, when I try to verbalize why I love the moment that starts at 29:24, when the sopranos shift into that second melody, still following the marimbas, I choke up with emotion. There's something so exquisite, joyous, and life-affirming about it. And of all the performances I've heard of this piece, these performers really dig into the complexity possible in section V the most ambitiously, if that's the way to describe their motivation.
25:00 this reminds me of listening to this on the school bus until it ends
i miss school sm😭
Something very important is happening here ⚪
Ce qu'il y a de plus réel pour les musiciens inspirés, ce sont les illusions qu'ils créent avec leurs musiques. Le reste n'est que sable mouvant .. It's looks like a mosquito that bumps while flying desperately on a wall in a confined atmosphere 🐾