1980 Original In Gatefold. "Violin Phase" Was Written Early In The Composer's Career And Scored For Solo Violin And Played By The Brilliant Shem Guibbory, The Violinist Plays Against Tapes Of Himself, Beginning In Strict Unison But Gradually Speeding Up Or Slowing Down, Generating One Fascinatingly Unexpected Pattern After Another. The Intellectual Rigor And Breathtaking Purity Of The Music Makes One Wish, Perhaps, That Reich Would Forego The Added Ornamentation Of His Later Years. Ironically, Given The Genre, Some Of The Lines Have An Almost Romantic Quality To Them, Giving The Work A Striving, Even Heroic Character. Listeners Who Only Came To Know Reich Through His Even More Popular Works Like Different Trains And The Cave Owe It To Themselves To Seek Out Recordings Like This And Earlier Releases To Hear His Concept In Its Clearest And Boldest Context. Highly Recommended. AMG - Brian Olewnick