The Cave (with Beryl Korot)

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Reich, collaborating with video artist Beryl Korot, re-employs the tape manipulation/cut-up techniques of his earliest work in this prescient 1993 video opera, addressing the Arab-Israeli conflict. Time called it "a breakthrough piece for Reich and a tantalizing glimpse of what opera might be like in the 21st century." The album includes only the audio component of the piece.

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This CD box set is now available for sale in the Nonesuch Store; however, free, instant album MP3 downloads, included with other discs in the Store, are not currently available with box sets.

Reich, collaborating with video artist Beryl Korot, re-employs the tape manipulation/cut-up techniques of his earliest work in this prescient 1993 video opera, addressing the Arab-Israeli conflict. Time called it "a breakthrough piece for Reich and a tantalizing glimpse of what opera might be like in the 21st century." The album includes only the audio component of the piece.

 

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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Judith Sherman
Recorded December 12-16, 1994 at Edison Studio, New York, New York
Engineered by John Kilgore
Assistant Engineer: Yvonne Yedibalian
Mixed by Judith Sherman and Steve Reich at The Hit Factory, New York, New York
Mixing Engineer: John Kilgore
Assistant Engineers: Glen Marchese, Andy Grassi

Music by Steve Reich
Text by Beryl Korot

Design by Calvin Chu
Cover Photograph by Andrew Pothecary

Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz

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79327

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2discs
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Steve Reich
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MUSICIANS
The Steve Reich Ensemble:
Cheryl Bensman Rowe, Marion Beckenstein, sopranos
James Bassi, tenor
Hugo Munday, baritone
Bob Becker, Russ Hartenberger, Garry Kvistad, Thad Wheeler, percussion
Nurit Tilles, Edmund Niemann, Philip Bush, pianos, keyboards
Elizabeth Lim, Todd Reynolds, violin
Scott Rawls, viola
Jeanne LeBlanc, cello
Leslie Scott, Al Hunt, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet

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603497091669
  • 79327

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News & Reviews

  • Composer Steve Reich talks about creating his 1970–71 piece Drumming—which the Village Voice hailed as “the most important work of the whole minimalist music movement"—in a new video from his publisher Boosey & Hawkes. Steve Reich and Musicians gave the world premiere performance of Drumming at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC in December 1971. Their 1987 Nonesuch recording is included in the forthcoming Steve Reich Collected Works, a twenty-seven disc box set, due March 14.

  • The twenty-seven disc box set Steve Reich Collected Works is due March 14, 2025, on Nonesuch. It features music recorded during the composer's forty years on the label—six decades of his compositions, including first recordings of his two latest works, Jacob’s Ladder and Traveler’s Prayer—plus two extensive booklets with new essays by Robert Hurwitz, Michael Tilson Thomas, Russell Hartenberger, Judith Sherman, and Nico Muhly, and a comprehensive listener’s guide by Timo Andres. Nonesuch made its first record with Steve Reich in 1985; he was signed exclusively to the label that year. Collected Works includes twenty-four discs of Nonesuch recordings and three from other labels.

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    This CD box set is now available for sale in the Nonesuch Store; however, free, instant album MP3 downloads, included with other discs in the Store, are not currently available with box sets.

    Reich, collaborating with video artist Beryl Korot, re-employs the tape manipulation/cut-up techniques of his earliest work in this prescient 1993 video opera, addressing the Arab-Israeli conflict. Time called it "a breakthrough piece for Reich and a tantalizing glimpse of what opera might be like in the 21st century." The album includes only the audio component of the piece.

     

    Credits

    MUSICIANS
    The Steve Reich Ensemble:
    Cheryl Bensman Rowe, Marion Beckenstein, sopranos
    James Bassi, tenor
    Hugo Munday, baritone
    Bob Becker, Russ Hartenberger, Garry Kvistad, Thad Wheeler, percussion
    Nurit Tilles, Edmund Niemann, Philip Bush, pianos, keyboards
    Elizabeth Lim, Todd Reynolds, violin
    Scott Rawls, viola
    Jeanne LeBlanc, cello
    Leslie Scott, Al Hunt, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet

    PRODUCTION CREDITS
    Produced by Judith Sherman
    Recorded December 12-16, 1994 at Edison Studio, New York, New York
    Engineered by John Kilgore
    Assistant Engineer: Yvonne Yedibalian
    Mixed by Judith Sherman and Steve Reich at The Hit Factory, New York, New York
    Mixing Engineer: John Kilgore
    Assistant Engineers: Glen Marchese, Andy Grassi

    Music by Steve Reich
    Text by Beryl Korot

    Design by Calvin Chu
    Cover Photograph by Andrew Pothecary

    Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz

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