Reich: Different Trains, Electric Counterpoint / Kronos Quartet, Pat Metheny
Different Trains(1988) will probably go down in history as Reich's masterpiece.  And deservedly so. Reich's phase-shifting minimalism is made dazzlingly entertaining inDifferent Trains, which is scored for string quartet and digitally sampled voices that repeat  bits of speech concerning trains and Reich's experience with them growing up. The sinister part  here is than some trains carried Jews to death camps. That's here as well. The Kronos Quartet has  also never sounded better.Electric Counterpoint(1987) has one guitar--Pat Metheny in this  case-- playing to 10 pre-recorded motifs, also on guitar. You absolutely need this.--Paul  Cook