Reverberations shows Steve Reich still reigns

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Yet while works by the reverberants outnumbered Reich's, his dominated.

Saturday's evening concert included a European premiere, WTC 9/11, made newly timely by Bin Laden's death. It uses pre-recorded voices to generate melodic seeds that Reich feeds to the musicians, in this case Kronos Quartet, themselves both live and pre-recorded. There is something shocking about music made from 9/11 messages ("no contact with the pilot ... every available ambulance...") but Reich fashions an anguished memorial that resonates beyond the immediate context.

Earlier, the BBC Symphony Orchestra played Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards (1979). Transferred to large orchestra, Reich's interlocking musical cells and metamorphoses seemed more diffuse, emphasised by the work that opened Sunday's concert. Clapping Music (1972) is what it says: 10 hands (two of them Reich's) clapping out overlapping interference patterns.

Its complexity echoed through So Percussion's performance of Drumming Part 1. Four drummers, eight bongos, shifting pulses: auditory hallucinations guaranteed.

Reverberations: The Influence Of Steve Reich Preview
Barbican Hall, EC2