6/8/2023 0 Comments Vivaldi max richter![]() I mean, they are crude in a way, but they are also like someone inventing the wheel. “They have a certain presence and authority about them. Max Richter - The New Four Seasons Vivaldi Recomposed: Spring 1 (Official Video) MaxRichterMusic 232K subscribers Subscribe 512K views 11 months ago Max Richter The New Four Seasons. “Those are the first-generation synths, and I’ve heard them described as the Stradivarius of the synthesiser,” he laughs. ![]() “I wanted to match that flinty, haptic, tactile texture with the electronic elements.” The new record is produced on an analogue mixing desk, with the composer himself playing an early Moog, dating from the seventies. “I love the slight grittiness and earthy feeling that gut strings have,” he says. ![]() Richter is enthusiastic about this blend. In this “alternative rendering”, Chineke!, the groundbreaking British ensemble consisting of majority Black, Asian and ethnically diverse musicians, and the brilliant soloist, Elena Urioste, are playing on gut strings and period instruments: the sort that Vivaldi would have heard, and played, in his own time. Experiencing it felt as though we were being catapulted onto another plane, reverberated through the cosmos by this epiphanic soundworld. A 250, eight-and-a-half hour concert at the industrial MAC2 where Max Richter performans with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble while the audience sleeps. The digital sounds that Richter weaves into the original 2014 recording to give basslines more weight have been replaced here with the dirtier, grainier heft of early synths, including one of the very first: the iconic and rare Minimoog from the 1970s. ![]() We hadn’t heard anything like that, ever. The performance, set for Wednesday, June 14, is an expression of Richter’s long-running SLEEP concept. When Max Richter’s Recomposed first exploded into our collective ears almost a decade ago, a 59-minutes-28-seconds sonic starburst, the effect for so many people was total. ![]()
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