Collected Works is a 27-disc box set featuring music recorded during Steve Reich's 40 years on the Nonesuch label. 

 

Ranging from It’s Gonna Rain (1965) to the first recordings of his two latest works, Jacob’s Ladder (2023) and Traveler’s Prayer (2020), the collection incudes all of Reich’s major works including Different Trains, Music for 18 Musicians, Electric Counterpoint, Drumming and Tehilim.  

 

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. 

 

Limited edition.

 

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Nonesuch made its first record with Steve Reich in 1985. He was signed exclusively to the label that year, and since then the company has released 22 all-Reich albums, two retrospectives, and two remix releases.  Among his many honours, two of Reich’s Nonesuch records, Different Trains and Music for 18 Musicians, won Grammy Awards and his Double Sextet recording for the label won a Pulitzer Prize. 

 

While Nonesuch recordings comprise 24 of the 27 discs in Collected Works, the set also includes recordings licensed from other labels: Mahan Esfahani’s recording of Piano Phase (Deutsche Grammophon); Ensemble Avantgarde’s recording of Pendulum Music (Wergo); Art Murphy, Jon Gibson, Steve Chambers, Philip Glass, and Steve Reich’s recording of Four Organs and Murphy, Gibson, Chambers, and Reich’s recording of Phase Patterns (Shandar); Andreas Hartmann and Waltraut Wächter’s recording of Duet with MDR-Sinfonieorchester led by Kristjan Järvi (Sony Classical); Steve Reich and Musicians’ recordings of Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ and Six Pianos (Deutsche Grammophon); San Francisco Symphony and conductor Edo de Waart’s recording of Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards (Philips); Ransom Wilson’s recording of Vermont Counterpoint (Angel); and Ensemble Signal’s recording of Music for 18 Musicians (Harmonia Mundi).