E' pronto per Nonesuch - solo in cd per ora, l'edizione in vinile deve attendere ancora qualche settimana - l'atteso album con due delle più recenti composizioni di Steve Reich, Runner (scritta nel 2016) e Music for Ensemble and Orchestra (scritta nel 2018), affidate nella loro prima registrazione ufficiale alla Los Angeles Philharmonic guidata da Susanna Mälkki, nel frattempo già presentate dal vivo entrambe, anche da altri interpreti.
Così le descrive il compositore, evidenziandone le somiglianze: "Runner is written for a large ensemble of winds, percussion, pianos, and strings. While the tempo remains more or less constant, there are five movements, played without pause, that are based on different note durations. First, even sixteenths, then irregularly accented eighths, then a very slowed-down version of the standard bell pattern from Ghana in quarters, fourth a return to the irregularly accented eighths, and finally a return to the sixteenths but now played as pulses by the winds for as long as a breath will comfortably sustain them. The title was suggested by the rapid opening and my awareness that, like a runner, I would have to pace the piece to reach a successful conclusion." E di Music for Ensemble and Orchestra: "It is an extension of the Baroque concerto grosso where there is more than one soloist. Here there are twenty soloists - all regular members of the orchestra, including the first stand strings and winds, as well as two vibraphones and two pianos. The piece is in five movements, though the tempo never changes, only the note value of the constant pulse in the pianos. Thus, an arch form: sixteenths, eighths, quarters, eighths, sixteenths. Music for Ensemble and Orchestra is modeled on my Runner, which has the same five movement form.”