Max Richter Max Richter: Infra (CD) Album

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Max Richter: InfraCondition: NewFormat: CDNo Of Discs: 1Release Date: 06/30/2017Record Label: Deutsche GrammophonEAN: 0028947970064Artist: Max RichterEdition: AlbumComposer: Max RichterGenre: ClassicalStyle: ChamberDescription: “This music is achingly gorgeous.” – PitchforkAfter Songs from Before and The Blue Notebooks, DG is releasing the third in a row of Max Richter’s Retrospective catalogue – Infra, now on Vinyl and CD!Scored for piano, electronics, and string quartet, Infra is an expansion of a 25-minute piece Richter wrote for a collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor and visual artist Julian OpieThe original ballet was a response to the London bombings on 7/7. Richter explains: “The piece is about traveling, and in a way, [the songs] are quite existential, a meditation on the political state of London at that time and the tragedy of those events. We all knew people who had been affected by it or killed. Music is a social activity, and by definition, making any kind of statement is a political act.”The release follows Max Richter’s latest album “Three Worlds: music from Woolf Works”, which likewise features music from his score to Wayne McGregor’s ballet Woolf WorksWith Infra Max Richter also responded to, amongst other things, Winterreise, Schubert’s masterful, mournful gothic era song cycle based on Wilhelm Muller’s bleak monodramatic poems set in a brutal winter about a questing, misunderstood wanderer whose heart, and memory, is frozen in griefAdditionally, Richter drew inspiration from borrowed fragments of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, and it’s apprehension of chaos. However the Eliot, the Schubert, the Muller, and the dance - and Kafka and Kraftwerk – are only remotely in the room. They’re memories, rumours, guiding lights, signals, prompts, pulses, a clustering of ideas and situations, a motivation for Richter to work out how to find his own way, how on earth to begin a piece of music, and where to end it, and what it means, the struggle to make something new from an inherited tradition, once it makes it into the room where we all live, now, in a world that’s not quite sure what to do with itself and its collected, clashing memories.This version, as released by Deutsche Grammophon, features one Bonus Track: “Sub Piano”Max Richter piano & electronicsLouisa Fuller / Natalia Bonner violinsNick Barr violaIan Burdge / Chris Worsey cellosType: AlbumRun Time: 00:41:38MPN: 4797006Release Year: 2017Tracks: 1: Infra 12: Journey 13: Infra 24: Infra 35: Journey 26: Infra 47: Journey 38: Journey 49: Journey 510: Infra 511: Infra 612: Infra 713: Infra 814: Sub Piano Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

Price: 22.15 USD

Location: 60502

End Time: 2024-11-18T18:51:44.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 USD