Max Richter出生于德国，幼年时移居英国。并在爱丁堡的皇家音乐学院接受了传统音乐教育。成年后的经历使他成为一位出色的钢琴家和作曲家。并一直致力于前卫的试验型音乐。将电子与环境音乐结合再融入古典音乐进行创作。热衷于将不同类型的音乐交汇互通。

The 15th anniversary reissue of Max Richter’s highly cherished sophomore album expanded with a bonus disc including an orchestral version of ‘On The Nature of Daylight’ and a previously unreleased 2018 take on ‘Vladimir’s Blues’, plus an elegantly rude remix of the same track by Jlin, and a swooning, technoid Konx-Om-Pax rework of ‘Iconography’
"The Blue Notebooks was originally composed in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Richter has described it as "a protest album about Iraq, a mediation on violence – both the violence that I had personally experienced around me as a child and the violence of war, at the utter futility of so much armed conflict." The album was recorded about a week after mass protests against the war. It features readings from Franz Kafka's The Blue Octavo Notebooks and Czesław Miłosz's Hymn of the Pearl and Unattainable Earth. Both readings are by the British actress Tilda Swinton."
Here’s our original review from 2004:
"Max Richter's 'The Blue Notebooks' is the 4th release on FatCat's 130701 imprint, an outlet for more orchestrated, instrumental material. 'The Blue Notebooks' is Max Richter's second solo album, a distinctive and adventurous work that is beautifully recorded and cinematic in scope. Opening with a text from Franz Kafka over a sparse piano melody, the album moves through gorgeous, heart-wrenching string swells of 'On The Nature Of Daylight' through to sparse but lyrical piano pieces; hazy, swirling atmospherics, avalanche pulse-beats and partially occluded melodies that recall Aphex Twin's SAWII; and to reverberant organ / choir recordings.
Utilising piano, cello, violin and viola, alongside electronic beats (made using a variety of antique electronics and Reaktor), spoken word passages and the occasional field recording, other sounds were generated via old guitar pedals and vocoders. Life affirming music."

Max Richter出生于德国，幼年时移居英国。并在爱丁堡的皇家音乐学院接受了传统音乐教育。成年后的经历使他成为一位出色的钢琴家和作曲家。并一直致力于前卫的试验型音乐。将电子与环境音乐结合再融入古典音乐进行创作。热衷于将不同类型的音乐交汇互通。

Over a decade after its inception, ground-breaking composer Max Richter announces the release of 'VOICES': a major new recording project inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In a time of dramatic global change, 'VOICES' offers a musical message of hope. Max Richter invited people around the world to be part of the piece, crowd-sourcing readings of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be interwoven into the work, which features an ‘upside-down’ orchestra.
He received hundreds of submissions in over 70 languages. These readings form the aural landscape that the music flows through: they are the 'VOICES' of the title.
Max Richter explains, “I like the idea of a piece of music as a place to think, and it is clear we all have some thinking to do at the moment. We live in a hugely challenging time and, looking around at the world we have made, it’s easy to feel hopeless or angry. But, just as the problems we face are of our own making, so their solutions are within our reach, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is something that offers us a way forward. Although it isn’t a perfect document, the declaration does represent an inspiring vision for the possibility of better and kinder world.”

For the very first time Deutsche Grammophon releases an essential collection curated by Max Richter. One of the most influential figures of the contemporary music scene, producing ground-breaking work as a recording artist, composer, pianist, and collaborator.
Long a staple of the avant-garde, by virtue of his influential solo albums, including The Blue Notebooks, Memoryhouse, Songs From Before, Infra, Vivaldi Recomposed, Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works and the eight-and-a-half hour epic Sleep. Sold-out overnight performances of Sleep at venues across the world and numerous Classical No. 1 records, are a testament to Richter’s wide appeal. Richter has written widely for film and television with recent projects including Hostiles, Black Mirror, The Leftovers, My Brilliant Friend and Taboo - which gained him an Emmy nomination, and most recently Hostiles, White Boy Rick and Mary Queen of Scots.
• This is the very first Max Richter collection.
• 2 CD product curated by Max - 1 CD of original compositions from Max’s catalogue of successful solo albums, and a second CD comprised of music and movie themes and soundtracks.
• This essential collection will also feature music from HBO’s original series hit “The Leftovers” for the very first time.