The Dutch composer Louis Andriessen is often talked of in the same breath as the American minimalists, like Steve Reich and Terry Riley. Bang on a Can All-Stars' programme revealed the similarities and differences between Andriessen's music and two of the classics of minimalism: Reich's Four Organs and Riley's In C.

Four Organs is one of the ultimate minimalist statements, consisting of a single, repeated chord gradually lengthened for 17 minutes. It sounds like a recipe for a cerebral musical experiment, but Bang on a Can brought a physical and dramatic vigour to the performance.

In the opening section, the chord transformed from staccato moment into sustained harmony. Instead of sounding like a predictable process, Four Organs unfolded as a series of paradoxical musical effects, as mobile melodies emerged from the seemingly static chord, filling the hall with a wall of sound.

Andriessen's Dubbelspoor, scored for celeste, piano, glockenspiel, and harpsichord, shares superficial similarities with Reich's reductive musical process: a sequence of chimed chords gradually picks up momentum and becomes a dance. However, Andriessen uses a much wider range of material.

Dubbelspoor confronted the audience with a hard-edged sound world, and listening to it was like looking into a clockwork mechanism, as rhythms and patterns collided. In fact, there was more in common between Andriessen's work and music by the American maverick Conlon Nancarrow.

The clarinettist Evan Ziporyn arranged four of Nancarrow's playerpiano studies for a six-piece ensemble, and these released the jazz-like energy latent in the original versions.

Riley's In C was another essay in how to create a dazzling musical complexity from the simplest building blocks.

Bang on a Can sculpted a compelling, hour-long performance from the amorphous melodic cells of Riley's open-ended score, and they found an enormous range of harmonic and melodic contrast, making the piece sound rich and abundant rather than austere

· Passion: The Music of Louis Andriessen runs until October 17. Details: 020-7960 4242.