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Philip Glass, Steve Reich and John Adams are America's greatest living composers. Between them, they have helped change the way music is made and heard, repeating rhythms, highlighting melodies and overlapping time signatures to create new musical languages that are widely heard in the looped and sampled soundtrack to the 21st century. As they reach milestone birthdays, they talk to John Wilson about their work, and about the musical movement that links the three of them - Minimalism.

Playlist:

Philip Glass - Closing \nSteve Reich - Clapping \nJohn Adams - Phrygian Gates \nBartok - Concerto For Two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra, 3rd movt \nStravinsky - Rite of Spring \nBach Brandenburg 5 \nCharlie Parker - Be Bop \nTchaikovsky's - 1812 Overture\nBozo the Clown \nPhilip Glass - Dance 8 \nSteve Reich - Livelihood \nJohn Adams - On the Transmigration of Souls\nSteve Reich - Different Trains\nPhilip Glass - Floe \nPhilip Glass - Facades \nSteve Reich - Clapping\nSteve Reich - Piano Phase \nSteve Reich - Drumming \nSteve Reich - Clapping \nJohn Adams - Grand Pianola Music \nPhilip Glass - Knee Play 1 from Einstein on the Beach\nPhilip Glass - Evening Song from Satyagraha \nJohn Adams - The People Are The Heroes Now from Nixon in China\nSteve Reich - The Cave \nJohn Adams - Hallelujah Junction \nPhilip Glass - The Hours \nSteve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

Producer: Rebecca Armstrong.