The Blue Notebooks

“The Blue Notebooks” is one of Max Richter’s most successful albums to date and was originally composed in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Richter has described it as 'a protest album about Iraq, a mediation on violence. It features readings from Franz Kafka's The Blue Octavo Notebooks and Czeslaw Milosz's Hymn of the Pearl and Unattainable Earth. Both readings are by the British actress Tilda Swinton

Tracks

1~1~The Blue Notebooks
1~2~On The Nature Of Daylight
1~3~Horizon Variations
1~4~Shadow Journal
1~5~Iconography
1~6~Vladimir's Blues
1~7~Arboretum
1~8~Old Song
1~9~Organum
1~10~The Trees
1~11~Written On The Sky
2~1~A Catalogue Of Afternoons (Previously Unreleased)
2~2~On The Nature Of Daylight (Orchestral Version)
2~3~Vladimir's Blues 2018 (Previously Unreleased)
2~4~On The Nature Of Daylight (Entropy) (Previously Unreleased)
2~5~Vladimir's Blues (Jlin Remix) (Previously Unreleased)
2~6~Iconography (Konx-Om-Pax Remix) (Previously Unreleased)
2~7~This Bitter Earth / On The Nature Of Daylight

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Max Richter
Release Date: 18 May 2018
Genre: Classical Music
Label: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON (IMP)
Distributor: Universal Music