Steve Reich
It's Gonna Rain 17'
The Desert Music 48'
BBC Singers
Endymion
David Hill conductor
There will be no interval
The after-hours late-night atmosphere is a fitting backdrop to the pulsing rhythmic repetitions of Minimalism's founding father, Steve Reich.
Relive the experimentation of It's Gonna Rain – the tape piece that first put Reich on the map back in 1965 – its hypnotic layers of spoken sound transforming a street preacher into a strange, disembodied instrument.
The Desert Music twitches and throbs with life, offering a meditation on fragments of William Carlos Williams's poetry.
The BBC Singers are joined by contemporary specialists the Endymion ensemble.