Max Richter

In association with Regular Music

Max Richter: The Blue Notebooks & In a Landscape

Max Richter

Eloisa Fleur Thom and Max Baillie - violins

Connie Pharoah - viola

Max Ruisi and Zara Hudson-Kozdoj - cellos

Globally celebrated musician Max Richter is coming to Glasgow this October, part of his first ever world tour supporting his highly anticipated new album In A Landscape.

One the most influential and acclaimed composers of his generation, Richter is known for his ability to seamlessly blend traditional orchestrations with modern electronic elements. With a career spanning decades, Richter’s impact on the music industry cannot be overstated. His unparalleled ability to translate profound human experiences into musical compositions has earned him a dedicated global following, with his catalogue amassing over three billion streams to date. Notably, his record-breaking album SLEEP stands as one of the most streamed classical albums of all time.

In A Landscape, Richter’s ninth studio album marks a significant evolution in Richter’s musical journey, as he delves deeper into the themes of optimism and human emotion accompanied by an innovative exploration of electronic sounds and field recordings. It is a record about reconciling polarities, bringing together the electronic and the acoustic, the human and the natural world, the big questions of life and the quiet pleasures of living - a fleeting self-portrait of a musician in constant motion.

In A Landscape employs homogenous musical language to Richter’s seminal album The Blue Notebooks, with the two albums in a way bookending this significant chapter of Richter’s life and career. It is presented as an open conversation with the audience, asking them to consider the dualities in their own life, what personal stories come to mind while listening and, ultimately, serving as an invitation to imagination.

Max Richter says “For me, the music on the record is about connecting or reconciling polarities. The electronics with the acoustic instruments, the natural world with the human world, and the big ideas of life with the personal and intimate. This is a dynamic I started to explore in my 2004 record The Blue Notebooks, and the new project shares many of that album’s concerns; in a way this record is another look at the themes of the earlier work, but from the perspective of our world and our lives in 2024.”