Max Richter - Infra [CD]

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\u201cThis music is achingly gorgeous.\u201d \u2013 Pitchfork\r
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After Songs from Before and The Blue Notebooks, DG is releasing the third in a row of Max Richter\u2019s Retrospective catalogue \u2013 Infra, now on Vinyl and CD!\r
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Scored for piano, electronics, and string quartet, Infra is an expansion of a 25-minute piece Richter wrote for a collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor and visual artist Julian Opie\r
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The original ballet was a response to the London bombings on 7/7. Richter explains: \u201cThe piece is about traveling, and in a way, [the songs] are quite existential, a meditation on the political state of London at that time and the tragedy of those events. We all knew people who had been affected by it or killed. Music is a social activity, and by definition, making any kind of statement is a political act.\u201d\r
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The release follows Max Richter\u2019s latest album \u201cThree Worlds: music from Woolf Works\u201d, which likewise features music from his score to Wayne McGregor\u2019s ballet Woolf Works\r
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With Infra Max Richter also responded to, amongst other things, Winterreise, Schubert\u2019s masterful, mournful gothic era song cycle based on Wilhelm Muller\u2019s bleak monodramatic poems set in a brutal winter about a questing, misunderstood wanderer whose heart, and memory, is frozen in grief\r
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Additionally, Richter drew inspiration from borrowed fragments of T.S. Eliot\u2019s The Waste Land, and it\u2019s apprehension of chaos. However the Eliot, the Schubert, the Muller, and the dance - and Kafka and Kraftwerk \u2013 are only remotely in the room. They\u2019re memories, rumours, guiding lights, signals, prompts, pulses, a clustering of ideas and situations, a motivation for Richter to work out how to find his own way, how on earth to begin a piece of music, and where to end it, and what it means, the struggle to make something new from an inherited tradition, once it makes it into the room where we all live, now, in a world that\u2019s not quite sure what to do with itself and its collected, clashing memories.\r
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This version, as released by Deutsche Grammophon, features one Bonus Track: \u201cSub Piano\u201d\r
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Max Richter piano & electronics\r
Louisa Fuller / Natalia Bonner violins\r
Nick Barr viola\r
Ian Burdge / Chris Worsey cellos\r

1. Infra 1 - Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, Nick Barr, Ian Burdge, Chris Worsey

2. Journey 1

3. Infra 2 - Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, Nick Barr, Ian Burdge, Chris Worsey

4. Infra 3

5. Journey 2

6. Infra 4 - Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, Nick Barr, Ian Burdge, Chris Worsey

7. Journey 3

8. Journey 4 - Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, Nick Barr, Ian Burdge, Chris Worsey

9. Journey 5

10. Infra 5 - Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, Nick Barr, Ian Burdge, Chris Worsey

11. Infra 6

12. Infra 7 - Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, Nick Barr, Ian Burdge, Chris Worsey

13. Infra 8 - Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, Nick Barr, Ian Burdge, Chris Worsey

14. Sub Piano