This late ’80s work finds the minimalist composer,Steve Reich, mixing acoustic and taped material to great effect.

The disc’s centerpiece is “Different Trains,” a work that frames Reich’s impressions of his boyhood train trips between his mother in Los Angeles and his father in New York; Reich also intersperses references to the much more harrowing train rides Jews were forced to take to Nazi concentration camps.

Using the fine playing of the Kronos Quartet as a base, Reich layers the work with the taped train musings of his governess and vintage train sounds from the ’30s and ’40s.

For some nice contrast, Reich recruits guitarist Pat Metheny to create a similarly momentous piece in “Electric Counterpoint” on which Metheny plays live over a multi-tracked