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September 26, 2005
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Max Richter - the Twins (Prague)
As a slight change of pace from that Kevin Drumm track on Friday, this simple piano piece from Max Richter is inordinately pretty, light, and graceful. Those hop-skip notes that cap each phrase sound so perfectly off-balance; it's like watching a highly-trained dancer execute a complicated jump, only to spin slightly off equilibrium and have to steady herself with a few soft steps.
'the Twins (Prague)' is from Richter's pre-"Blue Notebooks" album, "Memoryhouse", which was released on BBC's Late Junction label, in 2002. Richter said that, with "Memoryhouse", he was trying to create narrative music "with any and all means at my disposal", which (the narrative part) shows through on the album, as it tells the story of a kind of journey through the last century. Available here- although it's difficult to find in the U.S., it's a stunning record, and definitely worth hunting down.
Posted by Kevin at September 26, 2005 12:19 AM