Steve Reich

Runner w/ Los Angeles Philarmonic (075597910186)

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Title Runner w/ Los Angeles Philarmonic

Author Steve Reich

Label Nonesuch

EAN 075597910186

Reference GEN 169523

LABEL CODE 075597910186

STYLE CONTEMPORARY

DISCS NUMBER 1

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• DIGIPACK EDITION

Nonesuch Records releases the first recordings of Steve Reich’s Runner (2016) and Music for Ensemble and Orchestra (2018), performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conducted by Susanna Mälkki, available on CD on September 30, 2022; a vinyl LP version will be released on December 2.

Reich says Runner is written “for a large ensemble of winds, percussion, pianos, and strings. While the tempo remains more or less constant, there are five movements, played without pause, that are based on different note durations. First, even sixteenths, then irregularly accented eighths, then a very slowed-down version of the standard bell pattern from Ghana in quarters, fourth a return to the irregularly accented eighths, and finally a return to the sixteenths but now played as pulses by the winds for as long as a breath will comfortably sustain them. The title was suggested by the rapid opening and my awareness that, like a runner, I would have to pace the piece to reach a successful conclusion.”