Infra
The latest from the electro-acoustic composer with a flair for slow, aching beauty was originally commissioned for a multimedia performance piece.
For a self-described “post-classical” composer who’s taken cues from such heady source material as Kafka’s Blue Octavo Notebooks and Haruki Murakami, many of Max Richter’s best compositions are appealingly middlebrow pieces for piano or string quartet—dramatic enough to drive home a scene in Shutter Island, but more…
Instrumental pieces are often good, rarely great. The abstract musical vocabulary, conveying feelings without lyrical assistance, requires a delicate touch and ambitious execution.
Max Richter - Infra review: Richter chooses to leave his cell phone at home