New York, NY (Top40 Charts) On October 04, 2019, Deutsche Grammophon/Universal
Music will release VOYAGER: ESSENTIAL MAX RICHTER, the first ever collection of the acclaimed British composer's work. The 33-track collection will be available as a double CD and e-album and contains work from across his vast catalogue, including studio albums such as 2004's acclaimed The Blue Notebooks, Richter; reviewed by Pitchfork as one of the most affecting and universal contemporary classical records in recent memory', 2012's Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, performed by award-winning British violinist
Daniel Hope and Berlin's renowned Konzerthaus Kammerorchester; and 2015's ground-breaking, eight-and-a-half-hour magnum opus, Sleep. Two previously unreleased bonus tracks from Sleep are also included in this release.
Additionally, the anthology offers a selection from Richter's numerous film and TV scores, among them 2014's The Leftovers, which garnered the International Film
Music Critics Award for Best Original Score For A Television Series; 2017's Taboo, awarded an Emmy for Outstanding
Music Composition For A Series; and last year's Mary
Queen Of Scots, which earned him the Hollywood
Music in Media Award for Best Original Score - Feature Film.
VOYAGER contains music from 2010's Infra, which originated as the celebrated score for Wayne McGregor's ballet of the same name, performed at London's Royal Opera House, as well as a version of In The Garden - originally featured on 2017's Three Worlds:
Music from Woolf Works, another ballet collaboration with McGregor - recorded at Spotify Studios in New York in 2017. Also included are Mercy, which was recorded live at Berlin's Meistersaal by renowned American violinist Hilary Hahn, who first commissioned it for 2010's Encores Project, and - an interpretation by Mari Samuelsen of November from Richter's 2002 debut, Memoryhouse - taken from her Mari album which was released earlier this year. The collection contains liner notes by writer and critic Wyndham Wallace.
Richter, a graduate of London's Royal Academy of
Music and a former pupil of
Luciano Berio, first earned a reputation during the 1990s, initially establishing himself with contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus, which he co-founded, then broadening his horizons by performing with and writing for the genre-resisting
Future Sound Of London and Roni Size's Mercury Prize winning drum and bass collective Reprazent. His debut album, Memoryhouse, was recorded with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, but its impact was at first so limited that, famously, the record was out of print by the time he released its follow-up, 2004's The Blue Notebooks. It wasn't until its re-release in 2014 that critics like The Independent's Andy Gill declared it "a landmark work of contemporary classical music".
With his early recordings, Richter opened a path, albeit inadvertently, that was swiftly followed by others, persuaded that there was no longer a need to maintain a separation between what had previously been considered either exclusively traditional or singularly modern. He's since gone on to release a further six studio albums, as well as recording multiple soundtracks for film and TV, with his compositions not only enhancing films by directors including
Martin Scorsese, Denis Villenueve and Michael Winterbottom, but also TV shows as varied as the BBC's lauded 2005 documentary, Auschwitz: The Nazis And The Final Solution, and Nosedive, a 2016 episode of Charlie Brooker's dystopian
Black Mirror, directed by Joe Wright. Moreover, Richter has collaborated in other fields, notably installation art, theatre and dance, working alongside Turner Prize nominee Darren Almond, the
National Theatre of Scotland and - repeatedly - choreographer Wayne McGregor, currently Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet in London.
Having bridged the divide between electronic and classical music, Richter has achieved something that has altogether altered the musical landscape. VOYAGER: ESSENTIAL MAX RICHTER provides a vital, career-spanning summary of this innovative, inventive composer's hugely influential work.
TRACKLISTING:
CD1:
1 ON THE NATURE OF DAYLIGHT | The Blue Notebooks
2 A CATALOGUE OF AFTERNOONS | The Blue Notebooks
3 SPRING 0 | Recomposed by Max Richter:Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
4 SPRING 1 | Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
5 AUTUMN MUSIC 2 | Songs From Before
6 MODULAR ASTRONOMY - Three Worlds:
Music From Woolf Works
7 VLADIMIR'S BLUES | The Blue Notebooks
8 NOVEMBER | Memoryhouse | MARI
9 DREAM 3 (IN THE MIDST OF MY LIFE) | From Sleep
10 HOPE STRINGS ETERNAL | 24 Postcards In Full Colour
11 ICONOGRAPHY | The Blue Notebooks
12 CIRCLES FROM THE RUE SIMON-CRUBELLIER - 24 Postcards In Full Colour
13 INFRA 8 | Infra
14 WAR ANTHEM | Three Worlds:
Music From Woolf Works
15 LULLABY FROM THE WESTCOAST SLEEPERS - 24 Postcards In Full Colour
16 SUNLIGHT | Songs From Before
17 IN THE GARDEN | Three Worlds:
Music From Woolf Works
18 BROKEN SYMMETRIES FOR Y | 24 Postcards In Full Colour
19 MERCY | Retrospective
BONUS
20 DREAM SOLO
21 PATH SOLO
CD 2:
1 BEGINNING AND ENDING | The Congress 4:52
2 THE DEPARTURE | The Leftovers 1:17
3 THE INEXORABLE ADVANCE OF MR. DELANEY | Taboo 2:59
4 THE YOUNG MARINER | Henry May Long 4:08
5 TRIGGER | White Boy Rick 4:21
6 ELENA & LILA | My Brilliant Friend 4:55
7 A BLESSING | The Leftovers 2:32
8 RIDE TO MARATHON STATION | White Boy Rick 2:12
9 LAMENTATION FOR A LOST LIFE | Taboo 2:20
10 THE MIND'S EYE | Never Look Away 2:49
11 WHERE WE BELONG | Hostiles 2:56
12 A NEW GENERATION | Mary
Queen Of Scots 2:49
13 ON REFLECTION | Nosedive I
Black Mirror7:17
14 WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS | Miss Sloane 4:00
15 YOUR REFLECTION | My Brilliant Friend 3:37
16 AND KNOW THE PLACE FOR THE FIRST TIME | The Leftovers 2:53
17 A WOMAN ALONE | Hostiles 1:50
18 OUR REFLECTION | My Brilliant Friend 5:35
19 WERSHE & SON | White Boy Rick 2:18
20 MISS SLOANE SOLO | Miss Sloane 2:08
21 THE DEPARTURE | The Leftovers | Piano Book 2:32
22 I WILL NOT FORGET YOU |
Testament Of Youth 3:55
Soloists:
DANIEL HOPE (CD 1, 3+4)
MARI SAMUELSEN (CD 1, 8)
HILARY HAHN (CD 1, 19)
LANG LANG (CD 2, 21)
