Runner / Music for Ensemble & Orchestra CD + MP3 Bundle exclusive

Runner / Music for Ensemble & Orchestra CD + MP3 Bundle exclusiveThese first recordings of Steve Reichs Runner (2016) and Music for Ensemble and Orchestra (2018) are performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Susanna Mlkki. The New York Times calls Runner a calmly luminous orchestral piece with the pulsating, propulsive rhythms that animate much of Mr. Reichs music. The San Francisco Chronicle says that Music for Ensemble and Orchestra is a beautiful and dramatically charged masterpiece, but its impact

multi-instrumental trio reclaims and revives a near-forgotten brand of banjo-driven string-band music from North Carolina’s Piedmont region

which hailed the album as “complex and dangerously catchy

Scored as one hundred individual lines of music

William Bolcom and Joan Morris

“This record feels like what I've been working towards

Andriessen's music compels from start to finish

All About Jazz says Unity Band is "unequivocally one of Metheny's finest—an album that's sure to find its way to 'best of' lists for 2012

the New York Times said the work “transmutes contemporary history into operatic poetry

is based on Dante's Divine Comedy

and Vicky Krieps

The album was recorded in New York with pianist/producer Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman) and features several songs previewed over the previous two years in the digital Diary series

" says Mojo