New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Inspired by Sir
David Attenborough's landmark natural history series Wild Isles, which has entertained millions of viewers on BBC One and iPlayer this spring, Richter will perform Recomposed** based on Vivaldi's Four Seasons in a special live concert at London's Ecology Pavilion in Mile End Park which will also be broadcast on BBC
Radio 3 and BBC
Sounds to mark Earth Day. Max Richter will be joined by Chineke! Orchestra and former
Radio 3 New Generation Artist and acclaimed violinist, Elena Urioste.
Presented by Linton Stephens, Max Richter Live includes Recomposed, Infra and On the Nature of Daylight. BBC
Radio 3 has collaborated with Universal for this concert, and it will be performed for local London attendees from 2:30pm - 4:00pm. The concert will then be broadcast later in the evening from 6:30pm on BBC
Radio 3. For listeners living outside the UK, the performance will also be broadcast by radio stations from
Europe and beyond as part of BBC
Radio 3's partnership with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
The concert will be followed by a special BBC
Radio 3 Earth Day Mindful Mix hosted by Max Richter, with both available to listen to on BBC Sounds.
Max Richter said: "Creative work can be about building and activating communities, and the climate emergency presents us with a challenge we can only overcome by collective action across political and social divisions.
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. Recomposed, with its origins in the natural rhythms of the Seasons that frame our lives, reminds us that the things we are fighting for are beyond opinions and political ideologies: they form the very basis of our existence. We belong to them, and they belong to us all equally."
*So far, the following EBU Stations / territories have signed up for live or deferred broadcast:
Andorra
Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra, Andorra la Vella (TX 29/04/2023)
Belgium
Vlaamse
Radio en Televisieomroep, Brussels (TX 22/05/2023)
Brazil
Rádio Cultura Brasil, São Paulo (TX 05/06/2023)
Bulgaria
Balgarsko Nationalno Radio,
Sofia (TX 24/04/2023)
Canada
ICI Musique, Société Radio-Canada, Montréal (TX 05/06/2023)
CBC, Toronto (will broadcast on the eve of the World Environment Day on 4 June)
Estonia
Eesti Rahvusringhaalin (Estonian Public Broadcasting), Tallinn (live)
Germany
Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt (live)
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Halle (live)
Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken (TX 22/04/2023)
Greece
Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, Athens (live)
Hungary
Bartók Rádió, Budapest (TX 22/04/2023)
Iceland
Rikisutvarpid (Icelandic
National Broadcasting Service), Reykjavik
Ireland
RTÉ lyric fm, Limerick (TX 22/04/2023)
Italy
RAI
Radio 3 - Radiotelevisione Italiana, Rome (TX 22/04/2023)
Korea
Korean Broadcasting System, Seoul
Latvia
Latvijas Radio, Riga (live)
Lithuania
Lietuvos Radijas ir Televizija - Radio, Vilnius (live)
Portugal
Radio e Televisao de Portugal, Lisbon
Romania
Societatea Romana de Radiodifuziune, Bucharest (live)
Spain
Catalunya Música, Barcelona
Radiotelevisión Española , Madrid
Switzerland
Radio Télévision Suisse, Lausanne (TX 24/04/2023)
Schweizer
Radio und Fernsehen, Basel (TX 23/04/2023)
**Recomposed: The New Four Seasons was released on Deutsche Grammophon in 2022.
