But it’s Max Richter, so it’s not.Antonio Vivaldi (engraving by François Morellon de La Cave, from Michel-Charles Le Cène's edition of Vivaldi's Op. Yeah I know that sounds like a terrible idea. You see what I mean.Ī few other examples are below, including a piece from the monumental work Sleep - an eight-hour album, designed to last the length of a night’s rest, and now available as an app for either promoting sleep or forming a background to meditation.Īnd finally there’s the whole of a live concert of his re-imagining of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. And even the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi. At least, I thought that had been the first, until I realized On The Nature of Daylight was used in the movie Shutter Island. I first discovered him via the hugely under-rated show The Leftovers. You may think you’ve never heard him, but you likely have: the heart-rending On The Nature of Daylight - second track on the beautiful 2004 album The Blue Notebooks - has become the film-scorer’s default pick for a certain kind of keeningly melancholic atmosphere, and his music has appeared in everything from Arrival to Black Mirror. I did a post a couple of weeks ago with a few songs with words that work for me while writing, but most of the time (if I have music at all) it’s either classical or soundtrack - and nowhere do those genres meet as majestically as in the work of Max Richter.
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