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Thursday, 27 February 2020
John Adams: The Chairman Dances
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Radio 3’s favourite minimalist for a long while. I saw Nixon In China a long time ago, and I don’t recall any special dancing when this w...
Monday, 24 February 2020
Nils Frahm: Says
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Nils Frahm was born many years after Riley, Glass and Reich popularised Minimalism. It was probably just another influence on him. Says...
Thursday, 20 February 2020
Steve Reich: Music for Eighteen Musicians
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One of Steve Reich’s top five best sellers. For a long time it could only be performed by his own ensemble, because the notation was in...
Monday, 17 February 2020
Philip Glass: Glassworks
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While we’re talking about Minimalism, let’s mention Philip Glass and this album, which everyone who saw Koyaanisatski rushed out and bo...
Thursday, 13 February 2020
Terry Riley: In C
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Ah, but maybe you have never heard Terry Riley’s In C. My generation did, because John Peel would play it on his Saturday afternoon sho...
Monday, 10 February 2020
Simon Ten Holt: Canto Ostinato
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Hans Beekhuysen mentioned this in one of his videos and I threw caution to the wind and ordered it from Amazon. It rested a while befor...
Thursday, 6 February 2020
The Pond on Christmas Day
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Three-fifteen on Christmas Day. There was a lot of water on the ground from the rain. I'm not sure that there is supposed to be...
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