Artist	Song
Columbia Symphony Orchestra & Igor Stravinsky	Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring): II. Auguries of Spring [Dances of the Young Girls]
from Stravinsky Conducts Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) (2007)
Academy of St. Martin In the Fields, George Malcolm, Henryk Szeryng, Jean-Pierre Rampal & Sir Neville Marriner	Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 In D, BWV 1050: 2. Affetuoso
from Bach: Brandenburg Concertos - Orchestral Suites - Violin Concertos (2002)
Kenny Clarke	Tin Tin Daeo
from Kenny Clarke (2008)
The Ewe People Of Ghana And Togo	Kinka
from Ewe Drumming from Ghana (2005)
Charlie Parker Septet	Cardboard
from Bird - The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve (1988)
Guarneri Quartet	String Quartet No. 3 (1927) - Seconda Parte: Allegro
from Bartók: The String Quartets (2009)
Glenn Gould	Prelude & Fugue No. 7 In E-Flat Major, BWV 852: Prelude
from Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846-853 (2007)
John Coltrane Quartet	Song of the Underground Railroad
from The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions (1995)
London Sinfonietta & David Atherton	Serenade, Op. 24: III. Variationen
from Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Die eiserne Brigade & Serenade (1990)
Duke Ellington	Fleurette Africaine
from Money Jungle (2002)
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet	Oop Bop Sh'Bam
from The Dizzy Gillespie Story (2009)
The Modern Jazz Quartet	Vendôme
from MJQ (2006)
Dominique Vellard & Ensemble Gilles Binchois	Dum Sigillum Summi Patris
from Ecole de Notre Dame de Paris: XIIe, XIIIe et XIVe siècles (1993)
The Hilliard Ensemble	O Maria virginei
from Perotin (1989)
Ella Fitzgerald	Moanin' Low
from Sweet and Hot (2007)
Alfred Deller & Robert Spencer	The Third and Last Book of Songs
from Alfred Deller Sings Purcell, Dowland & Bach (1998)
Cantor David Roitman	Ledor Vador
from Pearls of Jewish Liturgical Music (2006)
Junior Walker & The All-Stars	Shotgun
from The Very Best Of (2011)
Gamelan & Kecak	Genggong Duet (Sekar Sungsang)
from Explorer Series: Bali - Gamelan & Kecak (2005)
Desaccordes	In C (I. Part One)
from In C (2005)

Comment:

Ever wonder how Steve Reich became "Steve Reich"? Ask the man himself: "I don't listen to anything between Haydn and Wagner. Not even a little bit." Reich frequently cites Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring): II. Auguries of Spring (Dances of the Young Girls)" as a pivotal point in his early education, and you can hear how similar ostinatos turn up in his own work. Canadian pianist Glenn Gould's piano (rather than harpsichord) rendering of Bach, heard in "Prelude & Fugue No. 7 In E-Flat Major, BWV 852: Prelude," was, in Reich's words, "a complete revelation." A percussionist himself, Reich has long sought out exotic rhythms, whether from Kenny Clarke, reproducing the Afro-Cuban beats of Dizzy Gillespie's "Tin Tin Daeo," or the Ewe People's polyrhythmic percussion in "Kinka." And the very glue that holds Junior Walker & the All-Stars' Motown classic "Shotgun" together — the heartbeat throb of its single-note bassline — gives the song what Reich calls "a maniacal power" that stuck with him. With musical mentors ranging from Bartók to Dizzy Gillespie, Steve Reich has mined the pre-Haydn, post-Wagner musical landscape both deep and wide.

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