Max Richter Ensemble to Tour 'From SLEEP' in 2016
Following the performance and live broadcast of Max Richter’s eight-hour work SLEEP in September, and the release of a recording on the Deutsche Grammophon label, the composer is set to tour a version of the work in May 2016.
SLEEP, which Richter describes as a ‘personal lullaby for a frenetic world’ and ‘a question about how everything is getting faster’, was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 through the night, from midnight to 8am, as part of the Why Music? festival in London. Listeners were invited to fall asleep while listening.
There was also a live audience present; their reaction can be heard in the podcast below.
Richter has composed a one-hour version called From SLEEP, which his ensemble will perform on the tour, as well works from his second album, The Blue Notebooks.
The concerts take place in Bristol (14 May), London (17 May), Norwich (19 May), Royal Northern College of Music (21 May), and Edinburgh (24 May).
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