Steve Reich Collected Works

• 1. Disc 1 – Early Works
• 2. Disc 2 – Early Works II
• 3. Disc 3 – Drumming
• 4. Disc 4 – Early Works III
• 5. Disc 5 – Music For 18 Musicians
• 6. Disc 6 – New York Counterpoint, Eight Lines, Four Organs
• 7. Disc 7 – Tehillim / Three Movements
• 8. Disc 8 – The Desert Music
• 9. Disc 9 – Sextet / Six Marimbas
• 10. Disc 10 – Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint
• 11. Disc 11 – The Four Sections / Music For Mallet Instruments, Voice And Organ
• 12. Disc 12 & 13 – The Cave
• 13. Disc 14 – Proverb / Nagoya Marimbas / City Life
• 14. Disc 15 – Triple Quartet
• 15. Discs 16 & 17 – Three Tales
• 16. Disc 18 – You Are (Variations)
• 17. Disc 19 – Daniel Variations
• 18. Disc 20 – Double Sextet / 2x5
• 19. Disc 21 – WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet, Dance Patterns
• 20. Disc 22 – Radio Rewrite
• 21. Disc 23 – Pulse / Quartet
• 22. Disc 24 – Runner / Music For Ensemble And Orchestra
• 23. Disc 25 – Reich/Richter
• 24. Disc 26 – Jacob’s Ladder / Traveler’s Prayer
• 25. Disc 27 – Music For 18 Musicians (Signal)

Box Set with 27 discs (26 CDs + 1 DVD) in wallets, plus two booklets (132 + 120 pages).

Nonesuch Records releases Steve Reich Collected Works, a 27-disc box set featuring music recorded during his 40 years on the label. The collection represents six decades of Reich’s compositions, ranging from It’s Gonna Rain (1965) to first recordings of his two latest works: Jacob’s Ladder (2023) and Traveler’s Prayer (2020). Two extensive booklets contain new essays by longtime Nonesuch President Robert Hurwitz, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, Steve Reich and Musicians percussionist Russell Hartenberger, producer Judith Sherman, and composer Nico Muhly, as well as a comprehensive listener’s guide by pianist and composer Timo Andres.

Steve Reich has been called ‘the most original musical thinker of our time’ (New Yorker) and ‘among the great composers of the century’ (New York Times). Starting in the 1960s, his pieces It’s Gonna Rain, Drumming, Music for 18 Musicians, Tehillim, Different Trains, and many others helped shift the aesthetic center of musical composition worldwide away from extreme complexity and towards rethinking pulsation and tonal attraction in new ways. He continues to influence younger generations of composers and mainstream musicians and artists all over the world.

Reich’s documentary video opera works – The Cave and Three Tales, done in collaboration with video artist Beryl Korot – opened new directions for music theater and have been performed on four continents. His work Quartet, for percussionist Colin Currie, sold out two consecutive concerts at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London shortly after tens of thousands at the Glastonbury Festival heard Jonny Greenwood (of Radiohead) perform Electric Counterpoint, followed by the London Sinfonietta performing his Music for 18 Musicians.