Mivos Quartet | Steve Reich The String Quarte | CD

Steve Reich is an American composer, born on 3 October 1936 in New York City. He studied privately with Hall Overton, then at the Juilliard School with William Bergsma and Vincent Persichetti from 1958 to 1961, and at Mills College in Oakland, where he earned a master's degree in composition. He was influenced by the fellow minimalist Terry Riley, and his first major work, It's Gonna Rain, was written in 1965.

This 1 CD album, The String Quartets, brings together Steve Reich's three string quartets, composed between 1988 and 2010 and performed by the Mivos Quartet. Deutsche Grammophon released it in 2023, with recordings made at the EMPAC Concert Hall in Troy, NY, in 2020 and 2022. Mike Tierney produced the album and John Schaefer wrote the liner notes.

Track List

1. 9/11/01
2. 2010
3. WTC
4. I.
5. II.
6. III.
7. America - Before the War
8. Europe - During the War
9. After the War