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Steve Reich: Sextet/Six Marimbas (1992)

These pieces, written more than a decade apart, show the changes that occurred in Reich's music. Sextet is written for an ensemble of, unsurprisingly, four percussionists and two keyboardists, and like many other Reich compositions it has an arch form: A-B-C-B-A. The paired movements share a tempo and a particular cycle of chords, which use dominant chords with added tones to give it a darker, more chromatic sound, much like Reich's previous piece, The Desert Music. The percussionists play (at various times) three marimbas, two vibraphones, two bass drums, crotales, sticks, and tam-tam, while the keyboardists play both pianos and synthesizers set to an electric organ sound. Six Marimbas, scored for six marimbas (hence the title if you haven't already noticed), sounds even closer to the pieces that originally brought Reich to renown and is, in fact, a rescoring of his Six Pianos from 1973. The pure, luscious tones of the marimbas make it even more successful than the original and the work is played with obvious delight and rigor by the percussion ensemble Nexus, who includes several members of Reich's working band of the early '70s. All things considered, Sextet/Six Marimbas is one of the finest releases of mid-career Reich, entirely without the pretensions that marred some of his other work from the period.

Sextet for percussion, piano & synthesizers (1984-85)

1st Movement

2nd Movement

3rd Movement

4th Movement

5th Movement

Six Marimbas, rearranged from "Six Pianos" (1973-86)

Nonesuch 79138

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