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Max Richter – In a Landscape
Top Stories Tamfitronics An intimate offering from the modern classical master…06 · 09 · 2024 Someone once told me that they would like to inject the music of Max Richter into their veins. It’s an apt metaphor: Richter’s music, slow, simple and repetitive, is to contemporary classical music what heroin is to happiness. Without endorsing the use of heroin (though I’ll knock nothing till I’ve tried it), I genuinely mean that as a compliment: music doesn’t always have to be hard work, and Richter’s latest offering, ‘In A Landscape’, feels like the opposite of work.One thing that separates Richter from many of his contemporaries is his efforts to keep held the thread between postminimalism – that subgenre of classical music which trades in repeated motifs, legible chord changes and stripped-back instrumentation, often with electronic elements peppered...
