Sleep Circle
This new album is this 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.
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SLEEP Circle
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“Some of these compositions, such as Dream 11, Moth-like Stars or Non-Eternal, 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.”
- Max Richter
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Max Richter
Max Richter (1966) is a British pianist and composer working for stage, opera, ballet and screen. Classically trained, he studied composition in Edinburgh, London, and with Luciano Berio in Italy. Producing multiple landmark albums and extensively working for film and television since the early 2000s, Richter is one of the most influential figures of contemporary classical music. One of his most ambitious projects, “Sleep” (2015), is an eight-and-a-half-hour body of work based on neuroscience.
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