David Reich

This CD features highlights from a four-night series of performances by Steve Reich’s own group, showcasing five seminal works from the celebrated composer’s early career – including the famous Six Pianos, Violin Phase, and part of Drumming—in a live recording made at New York’s legendary experimental arts venue, The Kitchen, in May 1977. The recordings on this release are classic representations of Reich's early musical style and reflect his use of repeated patterns and, in Violin Phase, Drumming, and Pendulum Music, his original phasing technique.

This work re-appraises one of the most closely studied issues in European history-the appeal of the Nazi party and analyses the reasons behind the remarkable and sustained success of National Socialism in Germany.

The 90th Light Infantry Division was a German Army division during World War II that served in north Africa as well as Sardinia and Italy. The division played a major role in most of the actions against the Allied 8th Army in the western desert and eventually surrendered to the Allies in Tunisia in 1943. It was re-constituted later in 1943 and deployed to Sardinia and when the expected Allied invasion of Sardinia failed to materialise, the division was moved to Italy. It was engaged in actions against the Allies in Italy from 1943 to September 1944 when the division was listed as "destroyed" south of Bologna.