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Track Listing:

1
On the Nature of Daylight from The Blue Notebooks
 
2
A Catalogue of Afternoons from The Blue Notebooks
 
3
Spring 0 from Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
 
4
Spring 1 from Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
 
5
Autumn Music 2 from Songs From Before
 
6
VI. Orlando: Modular Astronomy from Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works
 
7
Vladimir´s Blues from The Blue Notebooks
 
8
November from Memoryhouse
 
9
Dream 3 - in the midst of my life from Sleep
 
10
Hope Strings Eternal from 24 Postcards in Full Colour
 
11
Iconography from The Blue Notebooks
 
12
Circles From the Rue Simon – Crubellier from 24 Postcards in Full Colour
 
13
Infra 8
 
14
III. Mrs Dalloway: War Anthem from Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works
 
15
Lullaby From The Westcoast Sleepers
 
16
Sunlight from Songs From Before
 
17
In The Garden - Spotify Singles
 
18
Broken Symmetries For Y
 
19
Mercy – Live
 
20
Solo Tracks from Sleep
 
21
Beginning and Ending from The Congress
 
22
The Departure from The Leftovers: Season 1
 
23
The Inexorable Advance Of Mr. Delaney
 
24
The Young Mariner (The Young Mariner)
 
25
Trigger from White Boy Rick
 
26
Elena & Lila from My Brilliant Friend
 
27
A Blessing from The Leftovers: Season 1
 
28
Ride To Marathon Station from White Boy Rick
 
29
Lamentation For A Lost Life from Taboo
 
30
The Mind´s Eye from Never Look Away
 
31
Where We Belong from Hostiles
 
32
A New Generation from Mary Queen Of Scots
 
33
On Reflection from Black Mirror – Nosedive
 
34
Wheels Within Wheels from Miss Sloane
 
35
Your Reflection from My Brilliant Friend
 
36
And Know The Place for The First Time from The Leftovers: Season 3
 
37
A Woman Alone from Hostiles
 
38
Our Reflection from My Brilliant Friend
 
39
Wershe & Son from White Boy Rick
 
40
Miss Sloane Solo from Miss Sloane
 
41
The Departure from The Leftovers: Season 1
 
42
I Will Not Forget You from Testament of Youth
 

Max Richter :

Voyager - Essential Max Richter

DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF VOYAGER: ESSENTIAL MAX RICHTER

Deutsche Grammophon 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.