by
Max Richter
- Record Label: DG Deutsche Grammophon
- Release Date: Jan 27, 2017
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Jan 30, 2017He has followed up the exceptional Sleep with yet another dazzling work that is “full of echoes, of memories, of associations” that celebrate and reflect this towering writer.
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Mar 7, 2017Although the work as a whole is not a film score, it has the flavor of one, and it opens up intriguing possibilities for the expansion of that language to other settings. Certainly recommended for anyone who has noticed and liked the music for Arrival.
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Mar 2, 2017Woolf Works, like SLEEP, is instantly accessible, its noise and careful hand holding often startlingly modern and never once patronising. A thing of beauty.
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UncutFeb 24, 2017His poignant, classically arranged pieces sit surprisingly well alongside more electronic compositions. [Apr 2017, p.37]
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Jan 30, 2017Movingly prefaced by Gillian Anderson reading the novelist’s suicide note, its gently absorbing string undulations, with a faintly keening soprano occasionally audible amongst the oceanic swells, bring fiction and real life together in a deep, powerful manner.
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Jan 30, 2017Like McGregor, he set an impossible bar, and even if he doesn’t clear it, the fall leads to something arresting nonetheless.
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Jan 30, 2017Three Worlds is rewarding as a background record as well as cognitive listening. Richter’s sound is best served without real pictures but paired with your dreams.