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A collection of music from some recent scoring projects

Andante / Reflection (End Title)

Movie Night – The Greatest Film Themes

Richter: On the Nature of Daylight

Colours Of Piano

Richter: Vladimir's Blues

24 Postcards In Full Colour

H In New England

A collection of Max's recent filmscore work, together with some tracks from the albums which have recently been featured in various feature films.

STRANGER THAN FICTION / Marc Forster - On the nature of daylight

Haydn's Piano Sonata in B Minor performed by Daniel Sullivan at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, recording by Jake Bragg.

Haydn - Sonata in B Minor Hob XVI/32

My recording of Phillip Glass' Metamorphosis I at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, recording by Jake Bragg.

Phillip Glass - Metamorphosis I

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (a.k.a. Forbidden Colours) by Ryuichi Sakamoto (1983)

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_v_pbd-O8U

Soundtrack from the movie Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (戦場のメリークリスマス), a.k.a. Furyo in Europe, directed by Nagisa Oshima, and starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Takeshi Kitano.

The instrument is a Kawai VPC1 controlling a Clavia Nord Stage 2, using a sampled Yamaha C7 grand piano, and... straight from the 80's a sampled preset named "Touch Perco" from the Yamaha DX7 mk2 synth.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence [live cover]

Originally conceived as a Royal Ballet-commissioned collaboration between composer Max Richter, choreographer Wayne McGregor and artist Julian Opie, Max Richter’s gorgeous score to ‘infra’ is deservedly given life of its own in this album-length release from FatCat’s instrumental/orchestral imprint 130701 Records.

The initial setting for ‘infra’ was as a ballet - written in autumn 2008 and premiered in November of the same year at The Royal Opera House in London – although here Richter’s score is given the full scope of a standalone new album. Expanded and extended from the original piece, ‘infra’ comprises music written for piano, electronics and string quintet, including the full performance score as well as material that has subsequently developed from the construction of the album – more a continued reference to the ballet than as a “studio album” in the strictest sense. The composition resonates with Max’s characteristic musical voice – majestic, involved textures; fluent and sweeping melodies; an enigmatic and inherently intellectual understanding of harmonic complexities that compels and mesmerizes.

Richter’s work on the ballet came initially from McGregor’s invitiation, a request for 25 minutes of music for his piece, inspired by T.S. Elliot’s ‘The Wasteland’ and named after the Latin term for ‘below’. This eventually became more collaborative as the project developed – Wayne would ask for Max to extend or alter certain passages of music in accordance with his own amendments to his choreography and concept, whilst logging the whole process for a BBC documentary (broadcast, along with the ballet in full, on BBC2 in November 2008). The dance performance was backed with digital images created by Julian Opie – observational scenes of street life, haunting and curiously balletic despite being of the everyday – and Max’s score is an appropriately close reference to the traveling theme:

“I started thinking about making a piece on the theme of journeys. Like a road movie. Or a traveler’s notebook. Or like the second unit in a film - when the scene has been played, and the image cuts away to the landscape going by. This started me thinking about Schubert's devastating and haunting "Winterreise" (Winter Journey), so I used some melodic material from Schubert as a found object in parts of my new piece.“

The recording of ‘infra’ took place in one day at London’s AIR Studios – recorded onto 2” tape, engineered by Nick Wollage and overseen by Max - before a return to the mixing studio (Max’s StudioKino and Trixx in Berlin) for Max’s typically intricate and lengthy process of crafting completed pieces from the recordings.

Infra

Infra 4

Uno de mis soundtracks favoritos de películas.
Interpretación: Roberto B.

Raising the Sail - Phillip Glass - Truman Show

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Seven Samurai (album three)

transcription of ryuichi's solo performance at the trio tour 20121212, rikuzen takata.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vlyp75l1aa2zjq2/Energy%20Flow-2.pdf

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Mikey didly