MAX RICHTER - Songs From Before reviews
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| Lost At Sea magazine |
 Without a Philip Glass For Dummies manual to go by, large sections of the listening public have given up trying to figure out the avant-garde composer's cryptic musical language. Easier to comprehend is Max Richter's Songs From Before, where, instead of clashing, the worlds classical music and contemporary instrumentation and experimentation come to some sort of understanding. And that is, existence is pretty messed up, and living, for all its momentary joys and highs, is probably best summed up by an old man sitting alone with his memories on a park bench feeding pieces of stale bread to pigeons. ...full text |
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| PitchFork |
| Max Richter's résumé becomes, nearly without exception, part and parcel to every review of his music: The German-born composer studied piano in Edinburgh and then at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He worked with electronics in Florence with Luciano Berio and co-founded Piano Circus, an ensemble devoted to work by 20th century composers such as Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt. In the mid-1990s, he collaborated with Future Sound of London, lending his piano and sampling experience to the long-running duo....full text |
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| StylusMagazine |
| There’s something suspicious about a composer with as consistent a direction as Max Richter. His first two albums saw him experiment with translating cinematic techniques into sound through the form of musical narrative. On both, his subject matter was historical. His production techniques have stayed the same—the quintet he uses, the studio he records in, the 16-track 2-inch tape he records onto, his employment of spoken word, the inclusion of electronic samples and field recordings. Richter’s third album, Songs from Before, sees no fundamental change in any aspect of his approach. If you’re worried, you shouldn’t be....full text |
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