

Famously described as a personal lullaby for a frenetic world, Richter. A 250, eight-and-a-half hour concert at the industrial MAC2 where Max Richter performans with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble while the audience sleeps. Listen to the best of Max Richter on Apple Music and Spotify. The performance, set for Wednesday, June 14, is an expression of Richter’s long-running SLEEP concept. Think we’ve missed one of your best Max Richter songs? Let us know in the comments section, below. The best Max Richter songs barely scratch the surface of his full range of music, but they offer a fascinating place to start. Richter’s early experiences with electronic artists such as Future Sound Of London and Roni Size set the scene for years of influential solo albums, a burgeoning career in soundtrack work (generated by his fine capabilities in musical storytelling) and many millions of streams.

The eight-hour concept piece, coupled with its staged events, is, however, only one part of a mighty body of work. Almost all of them are heavily indebted to the Deutsche Grammophon-signed, British-German composer Max Richter, whose landmark extended post-minimalist work Sleep (recorded with American Contemporary Music Ensemble) wowed the world in 2015 and remains the cornerstone of the genre. The early 21st Century has been packed with post-classical adventures, as a new wave of composers, players and labels have combined some of the vibe of modern popular music with classical instrumentation, often in search of post-rave-era chillout sounds. Richter: Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, the Four Seasons - Spring 1 - Daniel Hope, Christian Badzura, Jane Berthe, Zürcher Kammerorchester (2018).
