Memoryhouse

Max Richter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 3, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fat Cat
• ASIN: B001EGS4ZW
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,322 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #71 in Music > Dance & DJ > IDM

Track Listings

1. Europe After The Rain

2. Maria The Poet (1913)

3. Laika s Journey

4. The Twins (Prague)

5. Sarajevo

6. Andras

7. Untitled (Figures)

8. Sketchbook

9. November

10. Jan s Notebook

11. Arbenita (11 years)

12. Garden (1973) / Interior

13. Landscape With Figure (1922)

14. Fragment

15. Lines On A Page (One Hundred Violins)

16. Embers

17. Last Days

18. Quartet Fragment (1908)

Editorial Reviews

This gorgeous collection of Classically-inclined original pieces by composer MAX RICHTER was originally released in 2002 on the BBC's short-lived Late Junction label. Recorded by Richter with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and critically lauded on its original release, 'Memoryhouse' is quite deservedly held very dear to the broad-reaching 'post-classical' field.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The power of Richter, October 7, 2010

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Susan Bidwell Wright (SEATTLE, WA, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Memoryhouse (Audio CD)

When I heard a few phrases of Richter on the radio, his use of static delighted and moved me -- so I ordered the CD. It speaks to the most solitary part of me, reminds me of being a child falling asleep in the afternoon, voices muted and far away and the sounds of the world a jumble. But Richter is not an innocent. This music is sober and full of grief. It is written for the 21st century as we look back in anguish and as we look forward with terror. This is not music for the faint of heart.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cinematic, sweeping, and epic compositions, August 13, 2010

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ProsperoDGC - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Memoryhouse (Audio CD)

The one other review for this product casts the CD in a wildly unfair light. Even that reviewer notes how great the music is, but gives it only 3 stars because of Amazon's customer service. Consequently I want to set the record a bit straighter.

I first learned of Max Richter through a BBC TV drama called "Dive," in which "On the Nature of Daylight", a piece from his 2004 release, Blue Notebooks, was used extensively. Since then I've become a little obsessed with that CD and am now subsequently enamored with "Memoryhouse".

The pieces here are vast in ambition and scope, with electronics, strings, and full orchestra coexisting beautifully within layered compositions that leave enough room for breath and imagination. As an indicator of how cinematic Richter's style is, Martin Scorcese has used his work, on "Shutter Island".

All this said, Richter has a very populist edge to his work. For example, he worked with Roni Size and Massive Attack, so if you're familiar with their work you're likely to love Richter's. My dream team, I think, would be Richter and Rob Dougan working together. (If you've never enjoyed Dougan's absolutely amazing Furious Angels, on which appears the club-anthem "Clubbed to Death" track, you should fix that situation immediately and without pause for thought or reflection.

5.0 out of 5 stars A MASTER PIECE - UN CHEF D'OEUVRE, November 30, 2011

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Philgood - See all my reviews

This review is from: Memoryhouse (Audio CD)

This album must be in the best place in your discotheque (or bibliotheque) with Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and so on....

Max Richter: a great composer.

Phil.

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