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Steve Reich's Different Trains: Minimalism and Memory

Tom explores Steve Reich’s 1988 work Different Trains, its use of sampling and speech melodies, and its evocation of the Holocaust. Our witness is the author and journalist Jonathan Freedland.

Producer: Ruth Thomson

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29 minutes

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Fri 11 Nov 2022 16:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Steve Reich

    Different trains for string quartet and tape

    Performer: Kronos Quartet.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 9791762.

  • Leos Janáček

    The Cunning little vixen - opera in 3 acts [Prihody lisky Bystrousky]

    Performer: Dalibor Jedlička. Performer: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • DECCA.
    • 5739286778.

  • Steve Reich

    It's gonna rain (for tape)

    • NONESUCH.
    • 075597927382.

  • Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

    Symphony no. 3 Op.36 (Symphony of sorrowful songs) for soprano and orchestra

    Performer: Dawn Upshaw. Performer: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • ELEKTRA/NONESUCH.
    • 7559--79282 2.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    A Survivor from Warsaw Op.46 for narrator, male chorus and orchestra

    Performer: Gottfried Hornik. Performer: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 431-774-2.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony no. 13 in B flat minor Op.113 (Babiy Yar) for bass solo, bass choir and orchestra

    Performer: Vitaly Bromadsky. Performer: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin.
    • RUSSIAN DISC.
    • RDCD 11191.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 6 Nov 2022 17:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Fri 11 Nov 2022 16:30
    BBC Radio 3

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