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Over a decade after its inception, ground-breaking composer Max Richter announces the release of VOICES – a major new recording project inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The first single from his uplifting new work, which he describes as "a place to think and reflect", is out today via Decca Records. It is the latest album from the innovative, billion-streaming artist behind landmark 2015 composition SLEEP, which continues to evolve five years on with the launch of a new app. Available to download now, the app enables listeners to reimagine the 8-hour Deutsche Grammophon recording in custom-made musical sessions to help with focus, meditation and sleep. At the heart of both VOICES and SLEEP is a profound sense of global community, born out of Richter's career-long view of music as activism and his desire to unite audiences worldwide.

  • Max Richter at Dubai Opera. The composer revisits his most powerful work in spectacular fashion / The National
    Posted At: March 5, 2025
    Musician delights sold-out crowd with a cathartic performance marking The Blue Notebooks' 20th anniversaryThe National's William Mullally writes…..Over the last 20 years of film and television, Max Richter's On the Nature of Daylight has become one of the most potent emotional weapons in Hollywood's musical arsenal. The song, from his 2004 album The Blue Notebooks, has now been used more than 20 times in pi...

  • Max Richter releases 20th anniversary vinyl edition of 'The Blue Notebooks' / The Line of Best Fit
    Posted At: February 3, 2025
    Max Richter stands as one of the most prodigious figures on the contemporary music scene, with ground-breaking work as a composer, pianist, producer, and collaborator. From synthesizers and computers to a full symphony orchestra, Richter’s innovative work encompasses solo albums, ballets, concert hall performances, film and television series, video art installations and theatre works.  He is Classicall...

  • Imitated but never equalled, Max Richter has almost become a trademark / BRUZZ
    Posted At: November 28, 2024
    Max Richter stands as one of the most prodigious figures on the contemporary music scene, with ground-breaking work as a composer, pianist, producer, and collaborator. From synthesizers and computers to a full symphony orchestra, Richter’s innovative work encompasses solo albums, ballets, concert hall performances, film and television series, video art installations and theatre works. He is Classically trai...

  • The creator of the most streamed classical album of all time: Max Richter interviews with The Guardian
    Posted At: October 20, 2024
    The creator of the most streamed classical album of all time on working with Margaret Atwood, enjoying Eurovision, and uniting people through musicThe Guardian's Jude Rogers writes….Born in 1966 in Lower Saxony and brought up in Bedford, Max Richter is an award-winning classical composer. Working across live performance, film, dance, art and fashion, he has released nine solo albums, including 2015’s Sleep,...

  • Max Richter's 9th studio album 'In A Landscape' is ABC - Classic 'Featured Album'
    Posted At: October 18, 2024
    Max Richter is one of the most influential and acclaimed composers of all time. His fusion of classical technique and electronic technology, heard across genre-defining solo albums and countless scores for film, dance, art and fashion, has won him legions of fans around the world and blazed a trail for a generation of musicians.His ninth solo album – the first to be written and recorded at his serene new st...

  • Max Richter embarks on a musical journey with 'In A Landscape' / Shout Radio
    Posted At: September 23, 2024
    Shout Radio's Alondra Guadarrama writes……..Pioneering composer  Max Richter has released his long-awaited new album In A Landscape  via Decca Records. It is a record about reconciling polarities, bridging the electronic and the acoustic, the human and the natural world, life’s big questions and the quiet pleasures of living – a fleeting self-portrait of a musician in constant motion.Max Richter sa...

  • Max Richter on the music that made him / Pitchfork
    Posted At: September 4, 2024
    From Pitchfork…..As he readies the release of his new album, In a Landscape, the contemporary classical composer discusses the artists—including Talking Heads, Mitski, Hailu Mergia, and Sufjan Stevens—who have soundtracked his life.Jazz Monroe writes…..Max Richter spent his early years living in a cramped apartment near Hamelin, Germany, where his parents would play Bach and Beatles LPs on a cheap record pl...

  • ABC Classic - Lunchtime Concert presents: Max Richter's 'Recomposed'
    Posted At: May 28, 2024
    Described as one of the most prodigious figures in the contemporary music today, composer, pianist, producer, and collaborator Max Richter has blurred the boundaries of classical music, bringing his post-minimalist music to a diverse audience.Deeply affected by events in the United States in 2020, Richter turned to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to inspire a soundtrack to a vision of a better and...

  • Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks turns 20 / STEREOGUM
    Posted At: March 4, 2024
    STEREOGUM's NATHAN STEVENS writes….“Every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.”And it happened again, as comedy. Kurt Vonnegut’s generation felt an impudent rage against the Vietnam War, and the “Rock Against Bush” decad...

  • Max Richter unveils new piano plugin based on the composer's Steinway D SPIRIO / musicradar.
    Posted At: December 5, 2023
    "If you want to evoke the intimate stories we all carry inside us, then you will be well served by this instrument"Developed in partnership with Song Athletics, SRM Sounds plans to release Kontakt instruments based on sounds recorded in Richter's studioFor musicradar, Matt Mullen writes….Contemporary classical composer Max Richter has announced the launch of a new series of "sound products for music creator...

  • Max Richter's 'Sleep' makes GQ's '10 ridiculously relaxing sleep albums to help you drift off'
    Posted At: August 10, 2023
    From Max Richter’s Sleep to Marconi Union’s Weightless, these calming compositions are just what you need. A guide to relaxing sleep music to help you drift offGQ's Brit Dawson writes…Everyone has a different routine to wind down before going to sleep. There’s the widely-accepted Good, like a warm bath, reading, meditation, or a little stretch, and the regularly-warned-against Bad, for example, eating late,...

  • Max Richter announces show to commemorate 75th ann. of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / THE LINE OF BEST FIT
    Posted At: July 11, 2023
    Max Richter stands as one of the most prodigious figures on the contemporary music scene, with ground-breaking work as a composer, pianist, producer, and collaborator. From synthesizers and computers to a full symphony orchestra, Richter’s innovative work encompasses solo albums, ballets, concert hall performances, film and television series, video art installations and theatre works.  He is Classicall...

  • Sydney Opera House is the perfect venue for Max Richter's take on classical music / yahoo
    Posted At: June 4, 2023
    Max Richter and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performed at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on Saturday, 3rd June.  yahoo's Jude Durrant writes….Pianist and composer Max Richter, known for his neoclassical, electronic ambient music, recruited the Sydney Symphony Orchestra to share some pieces from his back catalogue in the Sydney Opera House’s newly enhanced Concert Hall for Vivid LIVE.Arriving...

  • Max Richter w/BBC Concert Orchestra to open bluedot festival's 2023 return to Cheshire's Jodrell Bank / ABOUT MANCHESTER
    Posted At: April 29, 2023
    bluedot has unveiled the full line-up for its Thursday Opening Concert, taking place 20 July this summer at Cheshire’s iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory.ABOUT MANCHESTER's Nigel Barlow writes……The evening concert, the introductory first night of the bluedot weekend, will be hosted by BBC Radio 3’s Unclassified Live with Elizabeth Alker, headlined by Max Richter with The BBC Concert Orchestra performing Richte...

  • The doleful minimalism of Max Richter / The New Yorker
    Posted At: April 10, 2023
    The New Yorker's Alex Ross writes…..The composer is everywhere on film and television soundtracks, promising that we will dissolve in mist before the apocalypse arrives. Richter’s pieces exude a gentle fatalism, a numbed acquiescence. Don’t worry, be pensive.The film scores of John Williams are beloved by untold millions. Philip Glass’s name is known to a good fraction of the population. Arvo Pärt’s sonic v...

  • Dark Mofo 2023 will see the return of Max Richter's Vivaldi - Four Seasons and his iconic 'SLEEP' / BOSS HUNTING
    Posted At: April 4, 2023
    THIS 8-HOUR DARK MOFO CONCERT IS PERFORMED WHILE YOU SLEEPBOSS HUNTING - Chris Singh writes….If you’ve ever watched HBO’s stunning The Leftovers then you may already be aware of the profound brilliance that is Max Richter’s music. The German-British composer and pianist has long been a pioneer in the post-minimalist style of contemporary ambient music and his exquisite works have soundtracked movies like Ad...

  • BBC Radio 3 presents Max Richter Live: Earth Day 2023 at the Ecology Pavilion in Mile End Park, London
    Posted At: March 28, 2023
    On 22 April, BBC Radio 3 presents Max Richter Live: Earth Day 2023, in a special concert by world-renowned composer and musician Max Richter.Music offers us ways to encounter other minds and to experience other points of view in very direct ways, and we will need this kind of collective understanding if we are to meet the existential questions which face us. — Max RichterOn 22 April, BBC Radio 3 presents Ma...

  • Wallpaper* chats with Max Richter about creating a sonic antidote to complex times
    Posted At: March 28, 2023
    ‘Visual art culture is wide open in a way that classical music, unfortunately, sort of isn't’ - Max RichterHot on the heels of Max Richter’s new album, ‘Sleep: Tranquility Base’, and recently opened multi-arts haven in rural Oxfordshire, we speak to the acclaimed composer about creating a sonic antidote to complex times.Some music glides gently over the skin, Max Richter’s goes straight under it. The German...

  • With 'World Sleep Day 2023' coming up, Evening Standard chats with the composer for our restless times: Max Richter
    Posted At: March 14, 2023
    Here’s how to celebrate the natural phenomenon scientists are still trying to understand – and wake up feeling restedes - Syraat Al Mustaqeem and Jessica Knibbs writes……More than 60 per cent of adults around the world are dissatisfied with their sleep. As the days get warmer and the nights get shorter your sleep pattern may be in flux – if it wasn’t already. What better time to snuggle back into a satisfyin...

  • Just sit back and enjoy Wayne McGregor's 'Woolf Works' three-act ballet spectacle / The Jewish Chronicle
    Posted At: March 6, 2023
    Do not go along expecting to follow a distinct story – McGregor is seeking to distil the essence of Woolf’s writings in dance formThe Jewish Chronicle's Joy Sable writes…..Woolf Works, Wayne McGregor’s three-act ballet (described as a triptych in the programme) is based on the works of Virginia Woolf and is back on stage at the Royal Opera House for a short run. In it he recreates the themes found in three ...

  • Max Richter - The New Four Seasons, Vivaldi Recomposed makes a closer listen: Happiest Music of the Year
    Posted At: December 16, 2022
    A decade on from the release of his mesmerising Recomposed album, trailblazing composer Max Richter returns to the sound world of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Recorded with violinist Elena Urioste and the musicians of Chineke! Orchestra, The New Four Seasons sees Richter create a new version of his Recomposed score for period instruments – using gut strings and vintage synthesisers to create a “grittier, more pu...

  • Max Richter's Exiles. Rich orchestral textures, vibrant performances, political engagement / Planet Hugill
    Posted At: August 30, 2021

    Prolific and pioneering composer Max Richter releases his 33-minute work Exiles on a brand new album of the same name on Deutsche Grammophon. The title piece features alongside expansive reimaginings of tracks composed by Richter for a Virginia Woolf-inspired ballet, Fendi fashion runways, Hollywood blockbusters, Golden Globe-winning documentaries, and a record loved by David Bowie. Profoundly moved ...

  • Rich orchestral textures, vibrant performances, and political engagement on Max Richter's Exiles / Planet Hugill
    Posted At: August 29, 2021

    Max Richter revels in this exploration of large-scale orchestral textures in tandem with vibrant performances from Järvi and his young orchestra Robert Hugill writes.....Composer Max Richter's latest disc Exiles on Deutsche Grammophon is a collaboration with the Baltic Sea Philharmonic and conductor Kristjan Järvi. Six of Richter's works, some new and some old, all in versions creat...

  • Max Richter's npr: tiny desk home concert, offers short pieces in two different modes of experience
    Posted At: January 22, 2021

    NPR's Tom Huizenga writes.....The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. It's the same spirit - stripped-down sets, an intimate setting - just a different space. There's a distinct dissonance between the bucolic setting of this lovely Max Richter Tiny Desk (home) concert and the reality he references after his performance. "Looking forward to the time when gigs can come ba...

  • Max Richter - Voices makes NPR: Best Music Of 2020
    Posted At: December 4, 2020

    This week we shared NPR Music's best songs and albums of 2020, lists voted on, politely argued over and presented by our staff, station partners and contributors. Today we're featuring the good stuff from the private reserves. Below you'll find lists of top 10 albums and songs from the members of NPR Music's staff. Robin Hilton - HOST, ALL SONGS CONSIDERED writes; I chew through a...

  • On global human rights day, BBC Radio 3 unites with 35 EBU stations to air Voices by Max Richter / RadioToday
    Posted At: November 14, 2020

    BBC Radio 3 is joining with 35 European Broadcasting Union radio stations around the world to air a message of unity through music. They'll make the first ever broadcast of Max Richter's latest work Voices on global Human Rights Day, Thursday 10 December. Including passages adapted from the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, VOICES is inspired by the document's opening statement "All human b...

  • Max Richter's 'Voices' offers a global vision of humanity / 89.9KCRW - Rhythm Planet
    Posted At: September 1, 2020

    The innovative British-German composer Max Richter recently released his ninth studio album called Voices. A decade in the making, Voices explores mental and historical landscapes as well as universal themes that seem particularly relevant today. The voices of the project come from people around the world who responded to Richter's social media invitation to be a part of the work. They, together with act...

  • Max Richter's 'Voices' envisions a better world / NPR Q&A
    Posted At: August 1, 2020

    When thinking about putting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to music on Voices, Composer Max Richter tried to capture the essence of "the world we haven't made yet." Richter has scored soundtracks and had his music placed across film and television, including recent Hollywood movies such as Mary Queen of Scots, Hostiles and Ad Astra. But Richter's also a composer who's not afrai...

  • Simply put, Max Richter is one of the most successful composers of our time / ABC - Australia
    Posted At: July 31, 2020

    His music sinks deep into the question not only of who we are, but who we aspire to be. His works have been streamed over a billion times and, perhaps more importantly than that, he is the composer to whom we turn as we try to find truth in this world. His new album, Voices, is just out, and it is a work almost beyond categorisation. Voices started as a small idea ten years ago when Richter composed ...

  • Max Richter's 'Voices' takes its theme from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / iNews
    Posted At: July 30, 2020

    There are enough records in the world already, thinks the ­composer Max Richter. So when he writes music, there has to be a "good reason". So far, those have included the Kosovo War, which he tackled on his debut album Memoryhouse in 2002, the Iraq War, the subject of 2004's The Blue Notebooks, and the 7/7 bombings, on 2010's Infra. 2015's eight-and-a-half-hour concept album Sleep was intended as...

  • Max Richter uses real voices from across the planet to remind us we need more than ever to become one global family / Louder Than War
    Posted At: July 23, 2020

    There's not many albums that start with a long dead First Lady reading the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but that scratchy recording of Eleanor Roosevelt still hits a nerve. Over the last decade Max Richter has quietly pulled together this complex and moving piece using chunks of that ground breaking document created in 1948 after the horrors of the Second World War, alongsid...

  • Max Richter's 'Sleep' now available as an app / Louder Than War
    Posted At: June 30, 2020

    Max Richter's trailblazing 2015 composition Sleep is now available to download with the launch of a new app. The app enables listeners to reimagine the 8-hour Deutsche Grammophon recording in custom-made musical sessions to help with focus, meditation and sleep which many people will need in the midst of the pandemic lockdown. It brings to a wider audience some of the experience shared by those lucky eno...

  • Max Richter's eight-hour epic; 'SLEEP' provides an apt soundtrack for lockdown, when hours stretch into the distance / Keep The Faith
    Posted At: April 10, 2020

    Max Richter's eight-hour epic SLEEP, his ‘lullaby for a frenetic world', returns to BBC Radio 3's airwaves this Easter weekend in a simulcast with the European Broadcasting Union – uniting quarantined nations across the continent in moments of meditative stillness. The BBC will join with broadcasters across Europe and beyond, including USA, Canada and New Zealand, for the live simulcast o...

  • What do sleep doctors do when they can't fall asleep at night ? They listen to Max Richter's 'Sleep' / HUFFPOST
    Posted At: February 15, 2020

    We all deal with sleepless nights from time to time ― and yes, that includes experts like sleep doctors. Though having trouble falling (or staying) asleep can be distressing, it may be comforting to know that it's a common problem. According to a 2016 Consumer Reports survey, 68% of Americans struggle with sleep at least once a week. "It's perfectly normal for all of us to have poor sleep or insomn...

  • Watch new video for Max Richter's 'Vladimir's Blues' / udiscovermusic.
    Posted At: February 11, 2020

    BAFTA-winning film-maker Yulia Mahr revealed her new video for ‘Vladimir's Blues', from Max Richter's album The Blue Notebooks. The global premiere was preceded by a 30-minute live chat between Yulia Mahr and Max Richter. The film is an artistic response to escalating global tension. ‘Vladimir's Blues' is about fragile beauty and the power of small things to elevate our everyday experienc...

  • There's something about Max Richter's music that triggers deep emotions / npr: Tiny Desk Concert
    Posted At: January 22, 2020

    Half way through this performance of Max Richter's achingly beautiful On The Nature Of Daylight, I looked around our NPR Music office and saw trembling chins and tearful eyes. Rarely have I seen so many Tiny Desk audience members moved in this way. There's something about Max Richter's music that triggers deep emotions. In Daylight, which has been effectively used in movies such as Arriva...
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