Steve Reich: Different Trains Bozzini Quartet

- Composer(s): Steve Reich
- Performer(s): Bozzini Quartet, Isabelle Bozzini, Stéphanie Bozzini, Nadia Francavilla, Clemens Merkel
- Graphic design: Jean-François Denis
A new must-have for you to discover. — Downtown Music Gallery, USA
Quatuor Bozzini’s Different Trains turns a new page in the history of contemporary music. It provides a new landmark. — Wayside Music, USA
On October 13th, 2005 DAME is proud to present the second Collection QB release: Different Trains by Steve Reich performed by Bozzini Quartet. A major opus in Reich’s body of work, Different Trains pioneered in 1968 a new form of composition developed from his earlier tape pieces It’s Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966).
The idea for the piece came from Reich’s childhood. His parents separated when he was one year old. His mother moved to Los Angeles, while his father stayed in New York. Since they had arranged divided custody, he often traveled back and forth between those two cities, with his governess, in the years 1939-1942. He composed the piece keeping in mind that, as a Jew, he would have found himself in a different situation had he been living in Europe at the time.
The work consists of a prerecorded tape assembled from the voices of various people reminiscing about the Holocaust, sounds of American and European trains from the ‘30s and ‘40s, and three different string quartets. In addition to the tape is a fourth string quartet part for a live quartet. Bozzini Quartet decided to offer a new reading of the work, including its very own recording of the three taped string quartets, a first ever since the premiere 1988 recording of the work, by the Kronos Quartet. Bozzini Quartet embarked on this new reading after being advised to do so by Steve Reich himself.
Bozzini Quartet’s Different Trains turns a new page in the history of contemporary music. It provides a new landmark. A new must-have for you to discover.
- Collection QB
- CQB 0502 / 2005
- UPC/EAN 771028350223
- Total duration: 27:02
Stereo
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
- 1Different Trains (1988), 27:02string quartet, stereo fixed medium [three pre-recorded string quartets] and stereo fixed mediumBozzini Quartet (Clemens Merkel, violin; Nadia Francavilla, violin; Stéphanie Bozzini, viola; Isabelle Bozzini, cello)
- 1America — Before the War (1988), 9:00string quartet, stereo fixed medium [three pre-recorded string quartets] and stereo fixed medium
- 2Europe — During the War (1988), 7:30string quartet, stereo fixed medium [three pre-recorded string quartets] and stereo fixed medium
- 3After the War (1988), 10:32string quartet, stereo fixed medium [three pre-recorded string quartets] and stereo fixed medium

Steve Reich: Different Trains
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CD 2CQB 0502CAD 11.95
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