Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works (2017)

The brand new album from Max Richter DGs best-selling artist/composer with music crafted from 2015s outstanding ballet production Woolf Works, a critically-acclaimed ballet triptych by choreographer Wayne McGregor, inspired by the life and works of English novelist Virginia Woolf. Featuring powerful, compelling, emotional music, encompassing electronic textures and soundscapes, as well as orchestral episodes.

Following the success of SLEEP, this album showcases different sides of Max Richters vast palette of sounds, including upbeat, Arpeggiator pieces Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works shows Maxs passion for both lavish string and piano melodies, but also his virtuoso electronic side. The first track on the album features spoken words by Virginia Woolf herself, reading the essay Craftsmanship from a BBC recording of 1937.

The original ballet was met with outstanding critical acclaim on its premiere in 2015, winning the Critics Circle Award for Best Classical Choreography and the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. The Observer described it as a compellingly moving experience; for The Independent it glows with ambition… a brave, thoughtful work; The Guardian called it a haunting meditation on memory, madness and time and lavishly atmospheric score. Each of the three acts springs from one of Woolfs landmark novels: Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves enmeshed with elements from her letters, essays and diaries. What a brilliant creative human being Virginia Woolf was. Its been extraordinary to have the chance to be submerged in the matters that troubled her, the questions she wrestled with and the visionary quality of the answers she discovered Max Richter.

TRACKLIST

01. Virginia Woolf – Three Worlds. Music from Woolf Works: Mrs. Dalloway: Words (01:02)
02. Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, John Metcalfe, Ian Burdge & Chris Worsey – Three Worlds. Music from Woolf Works: Mrs. Dalloway: In the Garden (05:17)
03. Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, Robert Ziegler & Hila Karni – Three Worlds. Music from Woolf Works: Mrs. Dalloway: War Anthem (06:56)
04. Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, John Metcalfe, Ian Burdge & Chris Worsey – Three Worlds. Music from Woolf Works: Mrs. Dalloway: Meeting Again (06:07)
05. Sarah Sutcliffe – Three Worlds. Music from Woolf Works: Orlando: Memory Is the Seamstress (00:35)
06. Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg & Robert Ziegler – Three Worlds. Music from Woolf Works: Orlando: Modular Astronomy (03:14)
07. Max Richter – Three Worlds. Music from Woolf Works: Orlando: Entropy (01:32)
08. Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, Robert Ziegler & Mari Samuelsen – Three Worlds. Music from Woolf Works: Orlando: Transformation (02:06)
09. Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, Robert Ziegler & Max Richter – Three Worlds. Music from Woolf Works: Orlando: Morphology (03:06)
10. Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg & Robert Ziegler – Three Worlds. Music from Woolf Works: Orlando: The Tyranny of Symmetry (01:26)
11. Max Richter & Ian Burdge – Three Worlds. Music from Woolf Works: Orlando: The Explorers (02:04)
12. Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, Robert Ziegler & Max Richter – Three Worlds. Music from Woolf Works: Orlando: Persistence of Images (03:15)
13. Max Richter – Three Worlds. Music from Woolf Works: Orlando: Genesis of Poetry (03:54)
14. Max Richter – Three Worlds. Music from Woolf Works: Orlando: Possibles (01:29)
15. Max Richter – Three Worlds. Music from Woolf Works: Orlando: Love Songs (02:33)
16. Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, Robert Ziegler, Mari Samuelsen, Hila Karni, Grace Davidson & Gillian Anderson – Three Worlds. Music from Woolf Works: The Waves: Tuesday (21:37)