Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works Max Richter

• Max Richter (b.1966): Mrs Dalloway:
• 1Words01:02
• 2In The Garden05:17
• 3War Anthem06:56
• 4Meeting Again06:07
• 5Memory Is The Seamstress00:35
• 6Modular Astronomy03:14
• 7Entropy01:32
• 8Transformation02:06
• 9Morphology03:07
• 10The Tyranny Of Symmetry01:27
• 11The Explorers02:05
• 12Persistence Of Images03:16
• 13Genesis Of Poetry03:54
• 14Possibles01:29
• 15Love Songs02:34
• The Waves:
• 16Tuesday21:38
• Total Runtime01:06:19

Info for Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works

Max Richter explores time and memory in his latest Deutsche Grammophon album, Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works.

Virginia Woolf’s sharp eye for the detail of life guided her work as a writer, its presence felt in everything from pioneering novels and perceptive essays to compelling letters and diaries. The author’s gift for expressing fluid states of mind in lyrical prose and her ability to draw readers into the mindscapes of fictional characters and capture the peculiar meanderings of consciousness have influenced generations of artists since her death seventy-five years ago. Max Richter is the latest to evoke memories of Virginia. Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works recalls her art’s vitality and the tragedy of a life scarred by mental illness and ended by suicide.

Richter’s album stems from his longer score for Woolf Works, choreographer Wayne McGregor’s first full-length creation for London’s Royal Ballet. Richter read several of Woolf’s novels, Mrs Dalloway and Orlando among them, when he was in his early twenties. While their language and imagery left lasting impressions, he discovered fresh perspectives on reading them again as part of the preparation for Woolf Works.

Three Worlds includes orchestral and solo instrumental sounds, music for wordless soprano, electronic compositions, and recordings from nature and the built environment. Its multi-layered collage of sounds and styles speaks of transformation and the impermanence of all things.

„A haunting meditation on memory, madness and time / Lavishly atmospheric score.“ (The Guardian)

Max Richer, piano & modular synthesizer
Louisa Fuller, violin
Natalia Bonner, violin
John Metcalfe, viola
Ian Burdge, cello
Chris Worsey, cello

Max Richter
The work of the award-winning British composer Max Richter includes concert music, film scoring, and a series of acclaimed solo albums.

Working with a variety of collaborators including Tilda Swinton, Robert Wyatt, Future Sound of London, and Roni Size, Max's work explores the meeting points of many contemporary artistic languages, and, as might be expected from a student of Luciano Berio, Max’s work embraces a wide range of influences.

Recent projects include the ballet INFRA, for Wayne McGregor at The Royal Ballet, with scenography by Julian Opie, the award-winning score to Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir, and the music installationThe Anthropocene, with Darren Almond at White Cube.

Max's music has formed the basis of numerous dance works, including pieces by Lucinda Childs, NDT, Ballet du Rhin, American Ballet Theatre, Dresden Semper Oper, The Dutch National Ballet, Norwegian National Ballet, among many others, while film makers using work by Max include Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island).

Recent commissions include the opera SUM, based on David Eagleman’s acclaimed book, premiered at The Royal Opera House, London and Mercy, commissioned by Hilary Hahn.

Current projects include Vivaldi Recomposed for Deutsche Grammophon, recorded by British violinist Daniel Hope and the Konzerthaus Orchester, Berlin, as well as a variety of other recording and film projects.

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