Music CD
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©2014
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1 audio disc (47 min., 19 sec.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in
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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
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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