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ALBUMSleep (Piano Edition) - SingleMax Richter
Albums by Max Richter
ALBUMLabyrinth: EphemeraKhatia Buniatishvili
ALBUMRichter: Recomposed: Vivaldi's Four SeasonsDaniel Rowland & Stift Festival Orchestra
ALBUMSpaceman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)Max Richter
ALBUMWinterLavinia Meijer
ALBUMLunaAnna Lapwood
ALBUMThe Blue AlbumPablo Sáinz-Villegas
ALBUMSketches on the WaySergio Calero
ALBUMSeasonsÉtienne Gara & Delirium Musicum
ALBUMSLEEP: Tranquility BaseMax Richter, Grace Davidson, Ben Russell, Yuki Numata Resnick, Caleb Burhans, Clarice Jensen & Brian Snow
ALBUMGuétharyAurèle Marthan
Max Richter's Popular Music Videos
Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Spring 1 (Live From Berlin)
Daniel Hope, Max Richter, L'arte del mondo & Werner Ehrhardt
Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Summer 1 (Live From Berlin)
Daniel Hope, Max Richter, L'arte del mondo & Werner Ehrhardt
Max Richter: On the Nature of Daylight
Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, John Metcalfe, Philip Sheppard & Chris Worsey
Richter: The Leftovers, Suite (Arr. Camille Berthollet, Julie Berthollet)
Camille Berthollet & Julie Berthollet
Richter: Flowers of Herself
Baltic Sea Philharmonic & Kristjan Järvi
Mirrors
Max Richter
Mercy
Max Richter
On the Nature of Daylight (Entropy)
Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, John Metcalfe, Chris Worsey & Ian Burdge
A Catalogue of Afternoons
Max Richter
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Summer 1 (Recomposed by Max Richter)
Delirium Musicum & Étienne Gara
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Max Richter Essentials
Gently unfurling melody meets conceptual bravery in this composer/producer's works.
Max Richter: Film Scores
His elegant touch infuses the silver screen with feeling.
Max Richter: Video Essentials
Music for thinking as well as sleeping.
Artist Biography
Contemporary composer Max Richter built his impressive career largely by making high-concept “post-Classical” use of sophisticated electronic dance music. Born in Germany in 1966 and raised in England, Richter studied at the University of Edinburgh and with Luciano Berio in Florence. He cofounded the contemporary-classical keyboard sextet Piano Circus in 1989 and released his solo debut, Memoryhouse, in 2002. It focused on the Kosovo conflict and introduced his ongoing enthusiasm for accessibly melodic forms of protest music with serious intellectual underpinnings. In 2004, The Blue Notebooks garnered acclaim for its electronics-augmented documentary approach and spilled over into TV and movie soundtracks. Richter explored musical miniatures on Songs from Before (2006) and 24 Postcards in Full Colour (2008), then waxed maximal on 2015’s eight-and-a-half-hour-long durational project Sleep. Four years after that, he surpassed a billion streams of his work. In 2022, Richter revisited his 2012 electronic-remix hit, Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons, with The New Four Seasons - Vivaldi Recomposed, a close approximation of his earlier rework, this time performed on original instruments.
Hometown
Hameln, Lower Saxony, West Germany
Genre
Classical