My Brilliant Friend, Season 3 (Original Soundtrack)

My Brilliant Friend, Season 3

Romance II

Romance I

Spring 1 (MBF Version)

This piece is dedicated to Otto and Elsa, the incredibly talented musicians in my family that shaped the road I walk on.

Otto was my grandpa (from my mom’s side), and Elsa, his sister, is my great-aunt. My grandpa only saw me play piano once, during a classical music recital when I was around twelve years old. Elsa, on the other hand, is the person that guided me as a pianist and composer until the day I left Peru. Otto was a natural genius that played for diverse orchestras and bands, from salsa to jazz, and released various amazing records. My great-aunt is a talented multidisciplinary artist, classically-trained pianist, and the most inspiring teacher I have ever had. They have completely different styles, personalities, and life stories,  but there is a piece that I know both of them love: La Comparsa by Ernesto Lecuona. I love it, too, and hope to learn how to play it one day. Until then, this is my gift to them. 

Composed, performed and recorded by Sergio Díaz De Rojas
Mastered by Gonzalo Lasheras
Photograph by Tiago Almança
Design by Celia Bayo

Canción para Otto y Elsa

Purchase

24 Postcards In Full Colour

This Picture Of Us. P.

Movement, Before All Flowers

Prehension

Ab Ovo

The Leftovers: Season 3 (Music from the HBO Series)

The End of All Our Exploring

Sleep

Dream 1 (before the wind blows it all away) (Pt. 1)

The Leftovers: Season 2 (Music from the HBO Series)

The Quality of Mercy

The Leftovers: Season 1 (Music from the HBO Series)

The Departure

Departure (Home)

Dona Nobis Pacem 2

Dona Nobis Pacem 1

My Brilliant Friend, Season 2

Leo (MBF Version)

Moth-like Stars (Edit)

Max Richter trained in composition and piano at Edinburgh University, at the Royal Academy of Music, and with Luciano Berio in Florence.

On completing his studies, Max co-founded the iconoclastic classical ensemble Piano Circus, where he stayed for ten years, commissioning and performing works by Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe and Steve Reich.

In the late 90s he worked with a number of electronic artists, notably Future Sound of London on their album 'Dead Cities". He subsequently collaborated with FSOL over a period of two years, also contributing to the albums "The Isness" and "The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness". Max also collaborated with Mercury Prize winner Roni Size, on "In the Mode".

In June 2002, Max released his debut solo album, "memoryhouse", recorded with The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. This was followed in March 2004 by FatCat's release of "The Blue Notebooks", with featured readings by Tilda Swinton.

In 2005 Max produced Vashti Bunyan's outstanding comeback album "Lookaftering".

2006 saw the release of "Songs From Before" based on Haruki Murakami texts read by Robert Wyatt. That same year, Max began performing "from The Art of Mirrors", an evolving score to previously unseen Super 8mm films of Derek Jarman.

Max's more recent work continues to stretch the notions of what Classical music is.  ‘24 Postcards In Full Colour’, released in August 2008, is an experimental work made up of 24 composed ringtones.

Max works widely in film music, installation and the theatre, most recently on INFRA, made with Wayne MacGregor and Julian Opie for The Royal Ballet, London. The Ballet was the subject of a BBC 'making of' documentary.

Max was named 2008 European Composer Of The Year for his score to Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir, for which he was also nominated for the Prix France Musique.

Moth-like Stars (Edit)

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