Composer Max Richter at his home studio in Oxfordshire, England. Photo by Antonio Olmos/The Observer.
In Sunday’s (10/20) Guardian (U.K.), Jude Rogers writes, “Max Richter is an award-winning classical composer. Working across live performance, film, dance, art and fashion, he has released nine solo albums, including 2015’s Sleep, the most-streamed classical music album of all time …; 2020’s Voices, inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and In a Landscape, released last month. A new ballet, MaddAddam, a collaboration between Richter and choreographer Wayne McGregor, with Margaret Atwood as a creative consultant, opens at the Royal Opera House on 14 November. Richter: ‘We live in a time where one of the biggest challenges is that people who have different opinions basically can’t talk to one another anymore. [In a Landscape] is a small appeal to try to harmonize these differences, by working with … found sounds and composed music, the human world and the natural world—trying to put these things together in a fruitful relationship…. I got into composing music because I love all kinds of music…. Music can sort of shift our state of mind, to take us into another mental space separate from the … day-to-day. It also gives us evidence about how someone else felt … which is one of the most important things in the social and political sphere.’ ”
