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Richter, Max: The Blue Notebooks

Max Richter (piano, synthesizer programming), Tilda Swinton (reader), Chris Worsey (cello), John Metcalfe (viola), Philip Sheppard (cello), Natalia Bonner (violin), Louisa Fuller (violin), Ian Burdge (cello), Dinah Washington (vocals)

Max Richter Orchestra, Lorenz Dangel

Release Date: 11th May 2018
Catalogue No: 4835014
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 71 minutes

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Richter, Max: The Blue Notebooks

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Max Richter (piano), Tilda Swinton (speaker)
Recorded: 2003

Richter, Max: On The Nature Of Daylight

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Max Richter (synthesizer programming), Louisa Fuller (violin), Natalia Bonner (violin), John Metcalfe (viola), Philip Sheppard (cello), Chris Worsey (cello)
Recorded: 2003

Richter, Max: Horizon Variations

Work length1:52

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Max Richter (piano)
Recorded: 2003

Richter, Max: Shadow Journal

Work length8:22

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Max Richter (piano), Tilda Swinton (speaker), Louisa Fuller (violin), Natalia Bonner (violin), John Metcalfe (viola), Philip Sheppard (cello), Chris Worsey (cello)
Recorded: 2003

Richter, Max: Iconography

Work length3:38

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Max Richter (piano)
Recorded: 2003

Richter, Max: Vladimir's Blues

Work length1:18

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Max Richter (piano)
Recorded: 2003

Richter, Max: Arboretum

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Max Richter (piano), Tilda Swinton (speaker), Louisa Fuller (violin), Natalia Bonner (violin), John Metcalfe (viola), Philip Sheppard (cello), Chris Worsey (cello)
Recorded: 2003

Richter, Max: Old Song

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Max Richter (piano), Tilda Swinton (speaker)
Recorded: 2003

Richter, Max: Organum

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Max Richter (piano)
Recorded: 2003

Richter, Max: The Trees

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Max Richter (piano), Tilda Swinton (speaker), Louisa Fuller (violin), Natalia Bonner (violin), John Metcalfe (viola), Philip Sheppard (cello), Chris Worsey (cello)
Recorded: 2003

Richter, Max: Written On The Sky

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Max Richter (piano)
Recorded: 2003

Richter, Max: A Catalogue of Afternoons

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Max Richter (piano)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: AIR Studios London

Richter, Max: On The Nature Of Daylight

Work length6:36

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Max Richter Orchestra
Lorenz Dangel
Recorded: 2010
Recording Venue: Scoring Stage, Babelsberg

Richter, Max: Vladimir's Blues 2018

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Max Richter (piano)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: AIR Studios London

Richter, Max: On The Nature Of Daylight (Entropy)

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Max Richter (piano), Louisa Fuller (violin), Natalia Bonner (violin), John Metcalfe (viola), Chris Worsey (cello), Ian Burdge (cello)
Recorded: 2018
Recording Venue: AIR Studios London

Richter, Max: Vladimir's Blues

Work length3:45

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Max Richter (piano)
Recorded: 2003

Richter, Max: Iconography

Work length3:55

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Max Richter (piano)
Recorded: 2003

Clyde Otis, Max Richter: This Bitter Earth / On The Nature Of Daylight

Work length6:12

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Dinah Washington (vocals), Louisa Fuller (violin), Natalia Bonner (violin), John Metcalfe (viola), Philip Sheppard (cello), Chris Worsey (cello)
Recorded: 2009

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“The Blue Notebooks” is one of Max Richter’s most successful albums to date.

It features his hit tracks “Vladimir’s Blues” (over 37M Spotify streams), “Written on the Sky” (31M Spotify streams) and “On the Nature of Daylight” (13M Spotify streams), that have been heavily streamed, as well used extensively in film, TV, and commercials

Originally written in 2003, DG will be releasing a new edition to celebrate its 15th anniversary with brand new artwork and bonus content, such as new arrangements, remixes, as well as a completely unreleased new track.

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.

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Richter, Max: The Blue Notebooks

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