Dream 11 / Moth-Like Stars Pt. 2

Sleep Circle, is a newly recorded, abridged version of Sleep informed by those concert experiences and focusing on the movements within the composition that are more in the foreground. This way Sleep Circle becomes a hallucinatory 90-minute trip into the hypnagogic state. For Max Richter, the approach offered new insights into his epic composition: “Some of these compositions, such as Dream 11, Moth-like Stars, are so rich in their poetic core that I wanted the music to be experienced in a more traditional way. I first wrote a structure for a concert performance. The new version we’ve recorded now is based on these performances, which also means that it has a slightly different architecture. It's like Sleep distilled.”