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The 12 Ensemble plays Max Richter at Kings Place

The 12 Ensemble plays Max Richter, including the astronomy-inspired Journey (CP1919), film-makers' favourite On the Nature of Daylight and his ever-popular reworking of Vivaldi.

When it comes to encouraging new audiences into concert halls, few contemporary classical composers hit the mark as surely as Max Richter with his trademark combination of floaty ambient strings and slow-moving harmonies. In this concert, recorded on Saturday at Kings Place, the dynamic 12 Ensemble presents three quintessential Richter pieces.

Originally a track from Richter's The Blue Notebooks album written in protest during the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, On the Nature of Daylight (Entropy) has since become a favourite shortcut of filmmakers who want to invest a scene with poignant emotional resonance. Journey (CP1919) is inspired by Jocelyn Bell's groundbreaking 1967 discovery of the first pulsar star, CP1919.

'Taking a new path through a well-known landscape' is how Richter describes his reworking of the world's most overfamiliar concerto. It was a journey that involved, as he put it, 'throwing molecules of the original Vivaldi into a test tube with a bunch of other things and waiting for an explosion' 鈥� an experiment which resulted in one of Richter's most popular works.

Introduced by Andrew McGregor.

Max Richter:
Journey (CP1919)
Vivaldi 鈥� The Four Seasons: Recomposed
On the Nature of Daylight (Entropy)

Eloisa-Fleur Thom (violin)
12 Ensemble

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Tue 2 Nov 2021 19:30
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Music Played

  • Max Richter

    Journey (CP1919) for orchestra

    Performer: Eloisa鈥怓leur Thom. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in E major RV.269, Op.8`1 (La Primavera)

    Performer: Eloisa鈥怓leur Thom. Music Arranger: Max Richter. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G minor RV.315, Op.8`2 (L'Estate) for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Eloisa鈥怓leur Thom. Music Arranger: Max Richter. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major RV.293, Op.8`3 (L'Autunno) for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Eloisa鈥怓leur Thom. Music Arranger: Max Richter. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F minor RV.297, Op.8`4 (L'Inverno) for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Eloisa鈥怓leur Thom. Music Arranger: Max Richter. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.

  • Max Richter

    On the nature of daylight

    Performer: Eloisa鈥怓leur Thom. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet no.6 in F minor Op.80

    Ensemble: Consone Quartet.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Out of Doors

    Performer: Alexander Gadjiev.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Orchestra: Norrk枚pings Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Daniel Blendulf.
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Broadcast

  • Tue 2 Nov 2021 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3