Интервью со Steve Reich В частности он говорит про неустанное повышение мастерства исполнителей. Удивительно.
...It was really difficult to find people playing Bartok's String Quartets in 1920, and now you couldn't be in a string quartet and not play Bartok. That is historically the case in all generations, in all music.
между прочим ему уж за семьдесят
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/39540/Interview_Interview_Steve_Reich* * *
Pitchfork: People have expressed allegiances to various recordings of "Music for 18 Musicians". The ECM version, the Nonesuch version… Steve Reich: And there's one by the Ensemble Modern, which I think is not as good, but has its fans, and there's a very interesting one which is called
"Music for 18 Musicians Live in Budapest", on Hungaroton, of all things. I would recommend that you hear it. It is a live performance, but it was done before there was any real proper score. They worked basically by taking it off the recording and working with the very, very sketchy oral notation of my ensemble. These people put it together in the 80s, and they are burning. It is not a recording that leaves things to be desired. There are aspects of it that are absolutely magic. They turn it into something that has a life of its own.
если что -- у меня такое есть.