Artist	Song
Steve Reich	Music for 18 Musicians: Section V
from Phases (2010)
Michael Riesman & Philip Glass Ensemble	Music in Twelve Parts: Part 5 Beginning
from Glass: Music in Twelve Parts (2005)
re-sound	In C: Part 02
from Riley: In C (2002)
Amy Shulman & John Schneider	Sarabande
from Just West Coast (1993)
Meredith Monk & Robert Een	Facing North: Long Shadows 1
from Monk: Facing North (2000)
Washington Saxophone Quartet	Songs for Tony
from Different Time, Different Places (2009)
Edo de Waart & San Francisco Symphony	Shaker Loops: II. Hymning slews
from Adams: Shaker Loops (2006)
Carol Wincenc & Sharon Isbin	Snow Dreams
from Joan Tower: Black Topaz (1995)
Verquer	Workers Union (Louis Andriessen)
from Verquer 2 (2011)
Alex Sopp, Seth Baer, Michael Clayville, Nico Sirota, Nadia Sirota, Logan Coale, Young People's Chorus of New York, Francisco Nuñez, Valgier Sigurosson & Ben Frost	I Drink The Air Before Me: Fire Down Below
from I Drink The Air Before Me (2010)
Catrin Demenga, Christian Sutter, Maacha Deubner, Natalia Paschenitschnikova, Rebecca Firth, Ruth Killius & Wladimir Jurowski	Exil (1994): II. Einmal
from Kancheli: Exil (1995)
David Zinman, Dawn Upshaw & London Sinfonietta	Symphony No. 3: II. Lento e largo - Tranquillissimo
from Gorecki: Symphony No. 3 (2004)
Kronos Quartet	Cold War Suite from How It Happens (The Voice of I.F. Stone): What Would Have Happened
from Howl, U.S.A. (2005)
The California Ear Unit	Egyptian Two Step
from The California Ear Unit (1989)
Kate Geissinger, Theo Bleckmann, John Benthal, Toby Twining, Martin Goldray, Tony Boutte, David Cossin & Bohdan Hilash	The Carbon Copy Building: Scenes 7-8: What's the hurry? (Delivery Boy)
from The Carbon Copy Building (2011)
David Behrman	Canons
from Wave Train (2009)
Kyle Bobby Dunn	Statuit
from Ways of Meaning (2011)
Tim Weiss & Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble	In The White Silence: Letter C
from John Luther Adams: In the White Silence (2003)
Gavin Bryars Ensemble	The Sinking of the Titanic: II. Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All strings
from Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic (1994)
Theatre of Voices	Hymnodic Delays: III. Swept Away
from Marshall: Kingdom Come (2005)
Franz Joseph String Quartet	Summa
from Part: Stabat Mater - Fratres - Summa (2010)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra & David Zinman	Purple
from Michael Torke: One (2004)
Basel Sinfonietta & Kasper de Roo	Decasia: Part V
from Decasia (2011)
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company	Train (1970)
from 1970-1973 (2010)

Comment:

We don't mean to minimize the contributions of minimalist giants, such as Philip Glass, Terry Riley, or LaMonte Young, but since we have minimal space, we thought it wise to bring into focus some of the music's lesser-known masters. If Arvo Pärt's "Summa" calls to mind the world of Gregorian chants and early medieval polyphony, that's no surprise; in fact, its soaring vocals open with the Credo from the Roman Catholic Latin Mass: "Credo in unum Deum." Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, widely regarded as the world's first synthesizer ensemble, takes the proceedings in a more secular — not to mention more overtly ambient — direction with the starkly gorgeous landscape of "Train (1970)." And in Gavin Bryars' poignantly haunting "The Sinking of the Titanic: II. Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings," you can hear both echoes of "Amazing Grace" and the groaning, otherworldly sounds of a huge ship disappearing beneath the Atlantic's surface. But don't stop there; from John Adams to Joan Tower, from Henryk Gorecki to Michael Nyman, the minimalist composers featured here have generated maximum impact.

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