
Artist
Steve Reich
Steve Reich is a composer artist from American. 60 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Composer · American · Best composer albums
- 60
- Releases
- 1967–2025
- Active years

Artist
Steve Reich is a composer artist from American. 60 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Composer · American · Best composer albums

Most popular
Music for 18 Musicians
1978

The Desert Music
1985

Sextet / Six Marimbas
1987

Early Works
1987

Drumming
1987

Triple Quartet
2001

The Cave
1995

Collected Works
2025

Steve Reich: Jacob's Ladder/Traveler's Prayer
2025

LIFE (Extended)
2024

LIFE
2024

Steve Reich: The String Quartets
2023

Steve Reich: Reich/Richter
2022

Steve Reich: Runner / Music for Ensemble and Orchestra
2022

Steve Reich: Pulse / Quartet
2018

Steve Reich - The ECM Recordings
2016

Steve Reich - Duet
2016

Reich: The Four Sections, Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ
2014

Radio Rewrite
2014

Reich: Drumming
2012

Reich: Drumming, Music for Mallet Instruments, 6 Pianos
2012

Reich : WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet, Dance Patterns
2011

Double Sextet/2x5
2010

Daniel Variations (w/ pdf booklet)
2008

Steve Reich: Variations for Winds; Three Movements; Tehillim
2006

Phases
2006

Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint
2006

Reich: Remixed 2006
2006

Three Tales
2005

Tehillim / Three Movements
2005

You Are (Variations)
2005

Works 1965-1995
2005

Proverb / Nagoya Marimba / City Life
2005

Reich: Variations; Music for Mallet Instruments; 6 Pianos
2002
Variations
2002

New York Counterpoint, Eight Lines, Four Organs
2000
Phase Patterns / Pendulum Music / Piano Phase / Four Organs (Ensemble Avant Garde)
1999
Music for 18 Musicians (Ensemble Modern)
1999

Reich Remixed
1999
Music for 18 Musicians (Steve Reich and Musicians)
1998
City Life / Proverb
1996
The Desert Music / Shaker Loops
1996
Music for Mallet Instruments
1995
Six Pianos / Variations / Music for Mallet Instruments
1994
Another Look at Counterpoint
1993
The Four Sections / Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ
1990
Tehillim
1982
Octet / Music for a Large Ensemble / Violin Phase
1980

Steve Reich: Octet - Music for a Large Ensemble - Violin Phase
1980

Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
1978
Drumming / Six Pianos / Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ
1974
Four Organs / Phase Patterns
1970

New Sounds In Electronic Music
1967
Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer. He is a pioneer of minimalism, although his music has increasingly deviated from a purely minimalist style. Reich's innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (examples are his early compositions, "It's Gonna Rain" and "Come Out"), and the use of processes to create and explore musical concepts (for instance, "Pendulum music" and ""Four Organs"). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures and phasing effects, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially that of his country. The Guardian has described Reich as one of the few composers to have "altered the direction of musical history." Reich often cites Pérotin, J.S. Bach, Debussy and Stravinsky as composers he admires, whose tradition he wished as a young composer to become part of. Jazz is a major part of the formation of Reich's musical style, and two of the earliest influences on his work were vocalists Ella Fitzgerald and Alfred Deller, whose emphasis on the artistic capabilities of the voice alone with little vibrato or other alteration was an inspiration to his earliest works. John Coltrane's style,…