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British percussionist Colin Currie joins Asko|Schönberg at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ for performances of Reich/Richter, a visual and musical feast. 

The midday concert was held a barn designed by the same team who engineered London's Wigmore Hall, and acoustics are as warm and carefully attuned as its modest, appealing interior.

Exemplary performances of classic works by the American minimalist from the London Sinfonietta 

Utilizing bucolic surroundings, Tatiana Koleva and the Youth Percussion Pool produce an immersive concert of rhythmic experiments. 

Colin Currie's all Reich programme included a world première, the Quartet for two pianos and two vibraphones, but the newer works were overshadowed by his epic 1985 Sextet.

A rich variety of works by Steve Reich form an enthralling concert from Kristjan Järvi and the MDR Rundfunk orchestra at the Salle Pleyel.

The Southbank’s The Rest is Noise continues to draw the crowds, although the promise of Steve Reich himself can’t have made this concert too hard to sell. Reich’s own contribution to this evening, the culmination of a weekend of music and events entitled “Superpower”, was limited to some clapping and letting go of a microphone.

Do you remember when Steve Reich, “America’s greatest living composer”, came to your school concert and you performed his seminal work Clapping Music with the great man? No? Well, Joshua Kellie does. Joshua was one of the talented (and fortunate) St Paul’s School pupils chosen to perform in a concert in honour of the minimalist composer on his 75th birthday.

Steve Reich has been a Barbican mainstay of 2011. In his 75th birthday year, the composer’s significant influence on contemporary classical music was honoured with the Reverberations Festival in May.

En l'absence d'Alice Sara Ott, censée porter la création française du Concerto pour piano de Bryce Dessner, Steve Reich a retenu toute l'attention avec une remarquable interprétation de The Desert Music.

C’est une légende vivante qui s'invite à la fondation Louis Vuitton ce weekend : le compositeur Steve Reich en personne, pionnier des courants de la musique minimaliste et de la musique répétitive.