Max Richter (born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer who has … Read Full Bio ↴Max Richter (born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer who has been an influential voice in post-minimalist composition and in the meeting of contemporary classical and alternative popular musical styles since the early 2000s. Richter is classically trained, having graduated in composition from the Royal Academy of Music and studied with Luciano Berio in Italy.
Richter is known for his prolific output: composing and recording his own music; writing for stage, opera, ballet and screen; producing and collaborating on the records of others; and collaborating with performance, installation and media artists. He has recorded seven solo albums and his music is widely used in cinema.
Richter was born in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany. He grew up in Bedford, United Kingdom, and his education was at Bedford Modern School and Mander College of Further Education. He studied composition and piano at the University of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Music, and with Luciano Berio in Florence. After finishing his studies, Richter co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus.] He stayed with the group for ten years, commissioning and performing works by minimalist musicians such as Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, and Steve Reich. The ensemble was signed to Decca/Argo, producing five albums.
In 1996, Richter collaborated with Future Sound of London on their album Dead Cities, beginning as a pianist, but ultimately working on several tracks, as well as co-writing one track (titled Max). Richter worked with the band for two years, also contributing to the albums The Isness and The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness. In 2000, Richter worked with Mercury Prize winner Roni Size on the Reprazent album In the Møde. Richter produced Vashti Bunyan's 2005 album Lookaftering and Kelli Ali's 2008 album Rocking Horse.
Max Richter has created numerous film and television soundtracks over the years. He composed the score to Ari Folman's Golden Globe-winning film Waltz with Bashir in 2007 supplanting the standard orchestral soundtrack with synth-based sounds and winning him the European Film Award for Best Composer. He also scored the independent feature film Henry May Long, starring Randy Sharp and Brian Barnhart, in 2008 and wrote the music for Feo Aladag's film Die Fremde (with additional music by Stéphane Moucha).
In 2010 Dinah Washington's This Bitter Earth was remixed with Richter's On the Nature of Daylight for the Martin Scorsese film Shutter Island. In July 2010, On the Nature of Daylight and Vladimir's Blues featured throughout the BBC Two two-part drama Dive, which was co-written by BAFTA-winning Dominic Savage and Simon Stevens. On the Nature of Daylight was also featured in an episode of HBO's television series Luck. Four tracks—"Europe, After the Rain", "The Twins (Prague)", "Fragment", and "Embers"—were used in the six-part 2005 BBC documentary Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution produced by Laurence Rees.[45] Richter also wrote the soundtrack to Peter Richardson's documentary, How to Die in Oregon,[46] and the score to Impardonnables (2011) directed by André Téchiné.
An excerpt of the song Sarajevo from his 2002 album Memoryhouse was used in the international trailer for the Ridley Scott film Prometheus. The track, November, from the same album, was featured in the international trailer for Terrence Malick's 2012 film, To the Wonder, and in the trailer for Clint Eastwood's 2011 film, J. Edgar. Films featuring Richter's music released in 2011 include French drama Elle s'appelait Sarah by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, and David MacKenzie's romantic thriller Perfect Sense. In 2012 he composed the scores for Cate Shortland's 2012 Australian-German war thriller Lore and Disconnect, directed by Henry Alex Rubin. Richter latest project is the score to Ari Folman's new film The Congress, which was released in 2013.
Richter is also the composer of the original soundtrack for the HBO series The Leftovers created by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, which was premiered in June 2014. Some of the compositions are included in the albums Memoryhouse and The Blue Notebooks.
In 2016, Richter composed the score to Nosedive, an episode of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror. His piece On the Nature of Daylight opens and closes Denis Villeneuve's film Arrival. He wrote the score to Luke Scott's debut feature Morgan, and the score to Miss Sloane. He composed all the music in BBC One's drama Taboo which was broadcast in January and February 2017.
Richter wrote the score to Infra as part of a Royal Ballet-commissioned collaboration with dancer Wayne McGregor and artist Julian Opie. The production was staged at the Royal Opera House in London in 2008. In 2011, Richter composed a chamber opera based on neuroscientist David Eagleman's book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. The opera was choreographed by Wayne McGregor and premiered at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio Theatre in 2012. The piece received positive reviews, with London's Evening Standard saying "[it] fits together rather beautifully".[50] Their collaboration continued in April 2014 with Wayne McGregor's 'Kairos'; a ballet set to Richter's recomposition of the Four Seasons and part of a collaborative program involving three different choreographers titled 'Notations' with Ballett Zürich.[51] In April 2014 it was also announced that Richter and McGregor will collaborate again together on a new full-length ballet for summer 2015, as part of the 2014–15 Royal Opera House season.[52] In 2012/13, Richter contributed music to The National Theatre of Scotland's production of Macbeth, starring Alan Cumming. The play opened at New York's Lincoln Centre and subsequently moved to Broadway.[53] The company had previously used Richter's 'Last Days' in their acclaimed production of Black Watch.
In 2010, Richter's soundscape The Anthropocene formed part of Darren Almond's film installation at the White Cube gallery in London. The composer has also collaborated with digital art collective Random International on two projects, contributing scores to the installations Future Self (2012),[54] staged at the MADE space in Berlin, and Rain Room (2012/13) at London's Barbican Centre[55] and MOMA, New York.
Richter is known for his prolific output: composing and recording his own music; writing for stage, opera, ballet and screen; producing and collaborating on the records of others; and collaborating with performance, installation and media artists. He has recorded seven solo albums and his music is widely used in cinema.
Richter was born in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany. He grew up in Bedford, United Kingdom, and his education was at Bedford Modern School and Mander College of Further Education. He studied composition and piano at the University of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Music, and with Luciano Berio in Florence. After finishing his studies, Richter co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus.] He stayed with the group for ten years, commissioning and performing works by minimalist musicians such as Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, and Steve Reich. The ensemble was signed to Decca/Argo, producing five albums.
In 1996, Richter collaborated with Future Sound of London on their album Dead Cities, beginning as a pianist, but ultimately working on several tracks, as well as co-writing one track (titled Max). Richter worked with the band for two years, also contributing to the albums The Isness and The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness. In 2000, Richter worked with Mercury Prize winner Roni Size on the Reprazent album In the Møde. Richter produced Vashti Bunyan's 2005 album Lookaftering and Kelli Ali's 2008 album Rocking Horse.
Max Richter has created numerous film and television soundtracks over the years. He composed the score to Ari Folman's Golden Globe-winning film Waltz with Bashir in 2007 supplanting the standard orchestral soundtrack with synth-based sounds and winning him the European Film Award for Best Composer. He also scored the independent feature film Henry May Long, starring Randy Sharp and Brian Barnhart, in 2008 and wrote the music for Feo Aladag's film Die Fremde (with additional music by Stéphane Moucha).
In 2010 Dinah Washington's This Bitter Earth was remixed with Richter's On the Nature of Daylight for the Martin Scorsese film Shutter Island. In July 2010, On the Nature of Daylight and Vladimir's Blues featured throughout the BBC Two two-part drama Dive, which was co-written by BAFTA-winning Dominic Savage and Simon Stevens. On the Nature of Daylight was also featured in an episode of HBO's television series Luck. Four tracks—"Europe, After the Rain", "The Twins (Prague)", "Fragment", and "Embers"—were used in the six-part 2005 BBC documentary Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution produced by Laurence Rees.[45] Richter also wrote the soundtrack to Peter Richardson's documentary, How to Die in Oregon,[46] and the score to Impardonnables (2011) directed by André Téchiné.
An excerpt of the song Sarajevo from his 2002 album Memoryhouse was used in the international trailer for the Ridley Scott film Prometheus. The track, November, from the same album, was featured in the international trailer for Terrence Malick's 2012 film, To the Wonder, and in the trailer for Clint Eastwood's 2011 film, J. Edgar. Films featuring Richter's music released in 2011 include French drama Elle s'appelait Sarah by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, and David MacKenzie's romantic thriller Perfect Sense. In 2012 he composed the scores for Cate Shortland's 2012 Australian-German war thriller Lore and Disconnect, directed by Henry Alex Rubin. Richter latest project is the score to Ari Folman's new film The Congress, which was released in 2013.
Richter is also the composer of the original soundtrack for the HBO series The Leftovers created by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, which was premiered in June 2014. Some of the compositions are included in the albums Memoryhouse and The Blue Notebooks.
In 2016, Richter composed the score to Nosedive, an episode of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror. His piece On the Nature of Daylight opens and closes Denis Villeneuve's film Arrival. He wrote the score to Luke Scott's debut feature Morgan, and the score to Miss Sloane. He composed all the music in BBC One's drama Taboo which was broadcast in January and February 2017.
Richter wrote the score to Infra as part of a Royal Ballet-commissioned collaboration with dancer Wayne McGregor and artist Julian Opie. The production was staged at the Royal Opera House in London in 2008. In 2011, Richter composed a chamber opera based on neuroscientist David Eagleman's book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. The opera was choreographed by Wayne McGregor and premiered at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio Theatre in 2012. The piece received positive reviews, with London's Evening Standard saying "[it] fits together rather beautifully".[50] Their collaboration continued in April 2014 with Wayne McGregor's 'Kairos'; a ballet set to Richter's recomposition of the Four Seasons and part of a collaborative program involving three different choreographers titled 'Notations' with Ballett Zürich.[51] In April 2014 it was also announced that Richter and McGregor will collaborate again together on a new full-length ballet for summer 2015, as part of the 2014–15 Royal Opera House season.[52] In 2012/13, Richter contributed music to The National Theatre of Scotland's production of Macbeth, starring Alan Cumming. The play opened at New York's Lincoln Centre and subsequently moved to Broadway.[53] The company had previously used Richter's 'Last Days' in their acclaimed production of Black Watch.
In 2010, Richter's soundscape The Anthropocene formed part of Darren Almond's film installation at the White Cube gallery in London. The composer has also collaborated with digital art collective Random International on two projects, contributing scores to the installations Future Self (2012),[54] staged at the MADE space in Berlin, and Rain Room (2012/13) at London's Barbican Centre[55] and MOMA, New York.
nor earth nor boundless sea
Max Richter Lyrics
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08-Old Song "February the 10th. Sunday. Noise. Peace."…
Arboretum "November the 6th. Like a path in autumn, scarcely has…
Blue Notebooks "Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can…
Enola Gay Enola gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday Oho it…
Lullaby i sat the kitchen table and watched the sky grow…
Maria How many people fell in this abyss, I fathom from afar! Ther…
Maria the Poet How many people fell in this abyss, I fathom from afar! Ther…
Old Song "February the 10th. Sunday. Noise. Peace."…
Richter: Old Song "February the 10th. Sunday. Noise. Peace."…
Richter: The Blue Notebooks "Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can…
Shadow Journal "How enduring, how we need durability. The sky before sunris…
Shadows "How enduring, how we need durability. The sky before sunris…
The Blue Notebooks "Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can…
The Departure 15 kisiye saldirdim vurdum vurdum dur ma dim on bes ki si ye…
The Journal "How enduring, how we need durability. The sky before sunris…
The Trees "When Thomas brought the news that the house I was…
Tongue Tied Take me to your best friend's house Roll around this roundab…
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Joshua Fagan
The title comes from a wonderful Shakespeare sonnet about art and love standing strong against the relentless decay of time.
Here it is:
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
But sad mortality o’er-sways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
O, how shall summer’s honey breath hold out
Against the wrackful siege of batt’ring days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays?
O fearful meditation! where, alack,
Shall time’s best jewel from time’s chest lie hid?
Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?
Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?
O, none, unless this miracle have might,
That in black ink my love may still shine bright.
Nachi V
There is nothing home like melancholy!
As much as you envision your life to be,
Bright, vibrant, joyous.
Having once tasted pain at a visceral age,
You wouldn't ever want to do away with it.
The more you try to live in deliberation,
The louder it hums at your ears,
Calling you back home.
It whispers to you,
"Hush, now rest,
Come back to your old play garden,
I've grown more gray flowers for you,
With rainy storms that don't ever stop;
A solitary hum to the tune of your sobs,
And if you ever want to leave, I welcome thee to. "
As much as you hate it at the moment,
You secretly want to feel it again, just once more.
For it doesn't just harm you,
It slashed so deep it's not about the hurt anymore,
You begin to marvel at how red the flower garden is,
For that's the only color there could be,
The gray flowers painted with your blood!
And knowing all the pain, is not for nothing!
But now you're alive, and that's all that matters.
Dated: 13.2.2023
Nachi V
Our truck with life is very similar to the seashore,
The boundless sea waves falling upon the minute sand grains.
Time and again,
Time and again,
Taking not a grain of sand off,
Or rather, giving back as many as she swallowed.
So neither one is defeated in this cosmic duet.
So are we bound to this earth,
Time and again.
Each birth futile, not gaining, nor losing,
Lifetimes of sacrifice and sin.
And as I looked into the repetitive waves,
I assured her that I will be back.
For there lay many lifetimes ahead,
Before I gave as much as I took.
But rise, I shall...
Dave G
We’ve ached and our bones are rotting;
we’ve gone out and gone in. Summer. Winter.
Storm. Sun. Tonight, the pipes are frozen
beneath the home and I think of Grandma's
varicose veins. There are rooms here
where we must still knock, because the dead
are asleep and dying still.
Morning comes as a hope, not a promise.
Yet, I turn on the stove and put the dishes away.
I sweep the kitchen of its dust.
No one is stirring from their bed to come sit with us.
Some tomorrow, I will put my bones next to yours
in the dirt, and they will become splinters of wood.
I will go out into the night and not return.
Someone will prepare the kitchen for me in the morning
& come to my door, knocking.
But the dead will be sleeping still, sleeping.
Nachi V
To really think about it,
All art is merely an imitation.
A mimicry, a second copy of nature.
It doesn't take much solitude to observe,
That all art tends toward nature,
And nature tends toward life!
So, in essence, our art is to make life happen!
When we sing a flower,
We sing of its vibrant colors.
But do we not know?
It adorned it only so it may attract the winged pollinators!
Or of its sweet sugary flesh, only for the beasts of the forest to munch on,
And carry along seeds far across her landscape!
Nature's abundance works to make more of its own,
Beauty wouldn't exist if not for the desire to extend beyond,
When our mortality is painfully beckoning.
Our art follows suit, to make do life,
To find, and breathe joy into the ordinary.
To the human form bearable,
And with time, even blissful!
Dated: 10.5.2023
Magema
Don't think I will ever get tired of that 4 notes melody. One of Richter's masterpieces.
Luis Felipe Quintero Gómez
This song connects with something deep inside you... something that I locked many years ago and I didn't realize how important is it... My own voice inside, my real thoughts, my past and my freedom. Pay attention, close your eyes and let that this music remember you who you are.
Tom Rich
Excellent
Meltem D.
I lost in my thoughts. I locked myself. And i forgot who am i
Joshua Fagan
The title comes from a wonderful Shakespeare sonnet about art and love standing strong against the relentless decay of time.
Here it is:
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
But sad mortality o’er-sways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
O, how shall summer’s honey breath hold out
Against the wrackful siege of batt’ring days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays?
O fearful meditation! where, alack,
Shall time’s best jewel from time’s chest lie hid?
Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?
Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?
O, none, unless this miracle have might,
That in black ink my love may still shine bright.
mohammadosman154
So much melancholy in it. Though humans being mortals is nothing we should complain about. But the rest of this poem,I agree that we are a very dim light amidst countless stars. What can be the significance of such a small being in this vast ocean of life.
Avtarás
I know, right! Aimeloun tin zoi mou, Aimelei...
Nachi V
Thank you for posting dear sir
Sameoldfitup
“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read,
chords no one has ever heard.” Haruki Murakami.
Deep Rolling River
How does he make such soul touching music out of so few notes?