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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2010
    Well known minimalist composer:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Richter

    New work, with Stephan Moucha:

    DIE FREMDE

    Movie details:

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1288376/

    CD:
    http://scoremagacine.blogspot.com/2010/ … a-die.html

    This is going to be good!
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  1. I've not heard much from this composer but I do like his Henry May Long but not his Waltz With Bashir.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2010
    Ah, he writes such a wonderful music. A very eclectic mix of minimalism with pleasant listening experiences that frequently verge on the melancholic side of things. Usually piano - string driven, with much heart in his music.

    Michael is our resident Richter specialist.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  2. Yes, it's not every composer you can say you were personally responsible for a large part of his music not being used in a film. wink
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2010
    I especially like his cd Memoryhouse. smile
    Kazoo
  3. franz_conrad wrote
    Yes, it's not every composer you can say you were personally responsible for a large part of his music not being used in a film. wink


    You rejected him?
    http://www.filmmusic.pl - Polish Film Music Review Website
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      CommentAuthorBhelPuri
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2010
    franz_conrad wrote
    Yes, it's not every composer you can say you were personally responsible for a large part of his music not being used in a film. wink


    Explain, please!
  4. I especially like his cd Memoryhouse.


    That's the one I like.

    On the other thing, I can't really say anything on a public message board without getting it published on Justin's site, which would not be helpful.
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2010
    franz_conrad wrote
    I especially like his cd Memoryhouse.


    That's the one I like.

    On the other thing, I can't really say anything on a public message board without getting it published on Justin's site, which would not be helpful.


    You just got yourself a new stalker then wink
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeOct 18th 2010
    Max Richter
    infra


    Originally conceived as a Royal Ballet-commissioned collaboration between composer Max Richter, choreographer Wayne McGregor and artist Julian Opie, Max Richter’s gorgeous score to ‘infra’ is deservedly given life of its own in this album-length release from FatCat’s instrumental/orchestral imprint 130701 Records.

    The initial setting for ‘infra’ was as a ballet - written in autumn 2008 and premiered in November of the same year at The Royal Opera House in London – although here Richter’s score is given the full scope of a standalone new album. Expanded and extended from the original piece, ‘infra’ comprises music written for piano, electronics and string quintet, including the full performance score as well as material that has subsequently developed from the construction of the album – more a continued reference to the ballet than as a “studio album” in the strictest sense. The composition resonates with Max’s characteristic musical voice – majestic, involved textures; fluent and sweeping melodies; an enigmatic and inherently intellectual understanding of harmonic complexities that compels and mesmerizes.

    Richter’s work on the ballet came initially from McGregor’s invitation, a request for 25 minutes of music for his piece, inspired by T.S. Elliot’s ‘The Wasteland’ and named after the Latin term for ‘below’. This eventually became more collaborative as the project developed – Wayne would ask for Max to extend or alter certain passages of music in accordance with his own amendments to his choreography and concept, whilst logging the whole process for a BBC documentary (broadcast, along with the ballet in full, on BBC2 in November 2008). The dance performance was backed with digital images created by Julian Opie – observational scenes of street life, haunting and curiously balletic despite being of the everyday – and Max’s score is an appropriately close reference to the traveling theme:

    “I started thinking about making a piece on the theme of journeys. Like a road movie. Or a traveler’s notebook. Or like the second unit in a film - when the scene has been played, and the image cuts away to the landscape going by. This started me thinking about Schubert's devastating and haunting "Winterreise" (Winter Journey), so I used some melodic material from Schubert as a found object in parts of my new piece.“


    The recording of ‘infra’ took place in one day at London’s AIR Studios – recorded onto 2” tape, engineered by Nick Wollage and overseen by Max - before a return to the mixing studio (Max’s StudioKino and Trixx in Berlin) for Max’s typically intricate and lengthy process of crafting completed pieces from the recordings.




    Max Richter studied composition and piano at the Royal Academy of Music before moving to Florence to study with Luciano Berio, and subsequently co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus - his principal musical output for ten years – on his return to the UK. As well as commissioning and performing works by several musical figureheads, including Brian Eno and Julia Wolf, Richter was largely responsible for the ensemble’s use of live electronics, which became one of the fundamentally formative elements of his own work.


    An active collaborator in other media, Max received The European Film Award last year for his work on ‘Waltz with Bashir’, Ari Forman’s Oscar-nominated animated documentary. He has released four full-length albums with FatCat’s 130701 imprint - 2008’s ’24 Postcards in Full Colour’, ‘Songs From Before’ (2006), ‘The Blue Notebooks’ (2004) and last year’s ‘Memoryhouse’ (a reissue of his 2002 debut, originally released through the BBC’s short-lived Late Junction label) –‘infra’ is his first soundtrack piece to appear through FatCat.

    Forthcoming scores include Benedek Fliegauf’s near-future Dystopia “Womb”, as well as ‘from The Art Of Mirrors’, a film/music performance with hitherto unseen Super-8mm films by Derek Jarman.

    http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/release.php?id=321
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeOct 18th 2010
    Sound clips here:
    http://www.maxrichter.com/en/releases/view/6

    Also full pieces here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Kybxu7fiQ
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeOct 18th 2010
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    Henry May Long is quite a melanchonic score that is captured well by the limited musical ensemble of strings and piano. Some lovely string and piano solo passages peppered throughout the score. Action is not really on the menu with this one! The score fits the movie ("...Henry May Long is a very well-acted, dimly lit, depressing turn-of-the-century period piece about a friendship between a fatally ill man and a melancholy, indebted junkie...") like a glove!

    Elle s'appelait Sarah ("...a highly emotional yet unsentimental story about a Paris-based journalist digging into a Holocaust story that she discovers has a connection to her own family...") is similar to the previous score as it features predominantly both strings and piano but there's less of a constant feel of melancholia here: the score does have one or two more upbeat and dramatic tracks. There's a bit more variety to this score - hence I don't have all of the tracks that are available.


    Thanks! Listening to clips now, sound very interesting. More classical oriented and "normal' than what he's usually releasing. Have you watched the films on dvd? 'Cause it's the kind of those films that go completely under the radar.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  5. I've not seen the films. I just trawl the downloadable titles regularly and take a listen to the clips. If the clips attract my attention then "Bingo", a purchase is made!
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2011
    Max Richter's Soundtrack for 'Perfect Sense' starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green released. http://bit.ly/sZ8dXa

    http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/perfec … d472373397
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  6. Christodoulides wrote
    Max Richter's Soundtrack for 'Perfect Sense' starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green released. http://bit.ly/sZ8dXa

    http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/perfec … d472373397

    Thanks for the info, D. I'm listening to the clips now!
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeOct 26th 2011
    How is it Alan ?
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  7. Christodoulides wrote
    How is it Alan ?

    I didn't finish all the clips. The music in clips such as "Faint Pulse" and "Frequencies, Detectors" have an abrasive sound to them that's quite counter to Richter's more typical music heard in the score. Those abrasive tracks and their mixing with the other, more musical, tracks put me off it.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeSep 7th 2012
    New score out on iTunes, sounds wonderful

    LORE

    http://www.maxrichtermusic.com/en/news/ … 0completed

    info about the film
    http://www.rohfilm.de/films/in-production/lore/

    itunes score album link
    http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/lore/id557838344
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  8. I'm sorry if this was posted on MT before. I can't remember where I got it from a couple of weeks ago, but I keep going back to this little youtube film, and I'm seriously considering buying the cd.

    Max Richter has 'recomposed' Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

    What do you guys think?

    E.
    Recognizing somebody else's strength doesn't diminish your own (Joss Whedon)
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2012
    Absolutely gorgeous. Already pre-ordered mine last week.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
  9. He comes out with some interesting things, Richter. This '4 Seasons' reworking is something I've often wanted to hear -- modern composers interrogating classics with new ideas. (A Thomas Ades' conducted performance of Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker Suite' made me wish he'd rewritten it with his own creative instincts.)

    LORE is a fairly nice score, although it doesn't quite sustain as a full album.
    A butterfly thinks therefore I am
  10. Demetris wrote
    Absolutely gorgeous. Already pre-ordered mine last week.

    Weird, I can order it right now from Amazon.de and it will be delivered on Monday...
    Recognizing somebody else's strength doesn't diminish your own (Joss Whedon)
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2012
    I curiously await your opinion.
    I do like some of Richter's work, but am thoroughly distrustful of any concepts of "reworking" (which just sounds lazy and uninspired to me).
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
  11. Martijn wrote
    I curiously await your opinion.
    I do like some of Richter's work, but am thoroughly distrustful of any concepts of "reworking" (which just sounds lazy and uninspired to me).

    I don't mind reworkings, or covers in non classical music, as long as the 'copying' artist can put his own energy, his own stamp on the piece of work.

    And for me, knowing the original piece that well, kinda makes me 'hear' the reworking more.

    E.
    Recognizing somebody else's strength doesn't diminish your own (Joss Whedon)
  12. Martijn wrote
    I curiously await your opinion.
    I do like some of Richter's work, but am thoroughly distrustful of any concepts of "reworking" (which just sounds lazy and uninspired to me).


    Yeah, that Britten hack totally showed his lack of originality in his reworking of Purcell. wink
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2012
    franz_conrad wrote
    He comes out with some interesting things, Richter. This '4 Seasons' reworking is something I've often wanted to hear -- modern composers interrogating classics with new ideas. (A Thomas Ades' conducted performance of Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker Suite' made me wish he'd rewritten it with his own creative instincts.)

    LORE is a fairly nice score, although it doesn't quite sustain as a full album.


    The whole recomposed thing is a series by the label. Richter is an exceptional choice, the tracks heard in the video are very interesting.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2012
    Skating_Lientje wrote
    Demetris wrote
    Absolutely gorgeous. Already pre-ordered mine last week.

    Weird, I can order it right now from Amazon.de and it will be delivered on Monday...


    It's an offer they have for the cd, it's valid for the CD only and for certain eu countries i think. I pre-ordered the vinyl.
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2012
    Plus for Greece, the CD gets 4-7 days delivery and a total of

    Artikel: EUR 16,53
    Verpackung & Versand: EUR 9,74
    Gesamtbetrag: EUR 26,27

    thieves!
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      CommentAuthorMarselus
    • CommentTimeSep 9th 2012
    Demetris wrote

    thieves!


    biggrin
    Anything with an orchestra or with a choir....at some point will reach you
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeSep 9th 2012
    franz_conrad wrote
    Martijn wrote
    I curiously await your opinion.
    I do like some of Richter's work, but am thoroughly distrustful of any concepts of "reworking" (which just sounds lazy and uninspired to me).


    Yeah, that Britten hack totally showed his lack of originality in his reworking of Purcell. wink


    I actually thought you'd be referencing Vaughan Williams and Tallis, but my prepared (I do so enjoy a good set-up wink) answer still stands: Britten expanded on a theme by Purcell. He didn't "rework" or "re-imagine" an entire piece.

    And even with Britten an Vaughan Williams the open question always remains: is it so beautiful because of the composer....or the source material?
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn