6 Pianos 12 Hands (Keyed Up! #3) 2024

A suite of contemporary piano works featuring Steve Reich’s Music for Six Pianos with additional works by Terry Riley, André Ristic, Ana Sokolovic and many more.

Steve Reich and Terry Riley have each had a profound influence on the way we listen to music. The term “minimalism” is often used to characterize their music, yet the music itself is anything but minimal; incorporating much nuance and subtlety that is maximal in imagination and innovation.

Reich, described by the New Yorker as “the most original musical thinker of our time”, recognized early in his career the power of multiple pianos, none exploited more spectacularly than in his mesmerizing Six Pianos. This seminal work is combined with a new arrangement for six pianos by André Ristic of Terry Riley’s A Rainbow in Curved Air, itself dating from the same period as Six Pianos. And we feature a reprise of Ristic’s Soundstreams-commissioned work Vivaldi Variations.