The blue notebooks
(2014, original release: 2004)

Music CD

Call Numbers:
CD/CLASSICAL/RICHTER,M/5349

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Music CD/CLASSICAL/RICHTER,M/5349 Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Berlin : Deutsche Grammophon, [2014]
©2014
DESCRIPTION

1 audio disc (47 min., 19 sec.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
9786315884214 00289 479 4443, 00028947944430, 028947944430 479 4443, CD13-04
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Deutsche Grammophon: 00289 479 4443 (on container spine: 479 4443)

The blue notebooks (1:20) -- On the nature of daylight (6:12) -- Horizon variations (1:53) -- Shadow journal (8:23) -- Iconography (3:39) -- Vladimir's blues (1:19) -- Arboretum (2:54) -- Old song (2:11) -- Organum (3:13) -- The trees (7:53) -- Written on the sky (1:40) -- On the nature of daylight (bonus track) (6:35)

Chamber and ambient music; the 1st work for voice and piano; the 2nd for string ensemble; the 3rd, 6th, 11th for piano; the 4th, 7th for voice and electronics; the 5th, 8th-9th for electronics; the 10th for piano and string ensemble, the 12th arranged for orchestra

Title from disc label

Texts from Hymn of the perl and Unattainable Earth by Czeslaw Milosz and The blue octavo notebooks by Franz Kafka, translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins

Tracks 1-11 originally released in 2004 (130701 Records: CD13-04)

Compact disc

Biographical notes on the composer in English (4 pages : illustrations) inserted in container

Produced and mixed by Max Richter

Max Richter, piano, electronics ; with, variously: Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, violins, John Metcalfe, viola, Philip Sheppard, Chris Worsey, cello (tracks 1-11) ; Tilda Swinton, reader (tracks 1, 4, 7) ; Max Richter Orchestra, Lorenz Dangel, conductor (track 12)

Vocal works narrated in English

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