Published
Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 09:41
- The LP is based on Richter's score for a Royal Ballet production inspired by the works of Virginia Woolf.
Max Richter will release a new album next month on Deutsche Grammophon.
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works, as the name suggests, draws from Richter's score for Wolf Works, a critically acclaimed three-act Royal Ballet production from Wayne McGregor inspired by the works of the influential English writer Virginia Woolf. Described as featuring "a vast palette of sounds—from solo instrumental and orchestral episodes, to electronic textures and music for wordless soprano," the score makes use of themes from three of Woolf's novels, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves. It also employs a rare 1937 BBC recording of Woolf reading an essay called "Craftsmanship," reportedly the only surviving recording of Woolf's voice, along with the farewell note she left her husband before committing suicide in 1941, which is read by Gillian Anderson.
Richter, who we interviewed earlier this year, also just launched his own label, StudioRichter, with a 12-inch version of "On The Nature Of Daylight," a piece that recently served as the opening and closing theme for the science-fiction film Arrival.
Watch a short preview video for the Three Worlds album.
Tracklist
Mrs Dalloway
01. Words
02. In The Garden
03. War Anthem
04. Meeting Again
Orlando
05. Memory Is The Seamstress
06. Modular Astronomy
07. Entropy
08. Transformation
09. Morphology
10. The Tyranny Of Symmetry
11. The Explorers
12. Persistence Of Images
13. Genesis Of Poetry
14. Possibles
15. Love Songs
The Waves
16. Tuesday
Deutsche Grammophon will release Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works on January 27th, 2017.
Photo credit: Jermaine Francis