It is perhaps even more important to listen to and reflect on Steve Reich’s Different Trains today than it was at the time of its premiere, says Tom Service
‘If anybody came to me and said, “We’d like you to write a piece about the Holocaust,” I would run, not walk, in the, his piece for amplified string quartet, sampled spoken voices and a pre-recorded ensemble of multiple string quartets, written for the Kronos Quartet in 1988.
