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8 Lines (1)Cello Counterpoint (3)
City Life (2)
Clapping Music (arr. Paul Hillier) (1)
Clapping Music (5)
Come Out (1)
Different Trains (5)
Double Sextet (2)
Drumming (7)
Eight Lines (1)
Electric Counterpoint (arr. Nic Pendlebury) (1)
Electric Counterpoint (9)
Electric Guitar Phase (1)
Escortic Joynt (remix: Trio Escort) (1)
Four organs (2)
Know what is above you (1)
Mallet Quartet (2)
Movements (3) (1)
Music for 18 Musicians (9)
Music for Ensemble and Orchestra (1)
Music for Large Ensemble (2)
Music for Pieces of Wood (6)
Music for mallet instruments, voices and organ (2)
Music for two or more pianos (1)
My name is (1)
Nagoya Guitars (2)
Nagoya Marimbas (6)
Nagoya Marimba (1)
New York Counterpoint (version for marimba) (1)
New York Counterpoint (10)
Octet (2)
Pendulum Music (2)
Phase patterns (2)
Piano Phase (3)
Proverb (3)
Pulse (2)
Quartet (3)
Reich/Richter (2)
Runner (1)
Sextet (4)
Six pianos (2)
Tehillim (3)
The Desert Music (4)
Triple Quartet (4)
Vermont/Berlin Counterpoint (Olaf Muhlenhardt) (1)
Vermont Counterpoint (4)
Violin Phase (3)
WTC 9/11 (4)

Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.
His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (for example, his early compositions It's Gonna Rain and Come Out), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, Pendulum Music and Four Organs). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably the Grammy Award-winning Different Trains.
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Recent Reich releases

Dudok Quartet: What Remains
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Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
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Icons: The American Minimalists - Reich, Glass, Riley
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Reich - The String Quartets
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Mats Bergstrom: Portfolio - Selected Recordings 2005-2022
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