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Max Richter’s Sleep review – mellow look at his somnolent magnum opus – The Guardian
This meditative documentary about Richter’s eight-hour composition for a sleeping audience is anything but a snooze
Max Richter is the genre-defying composer who works for movies, TV, theatre and the concert hall. This documentary by Natalie Johns is about what many consider his magnum opus: Sleep, from 2015 an eight-and-a-half-hour composition with 204 movements in a plangent, ambient and mellow vein, featuring strings, synthesisers and a soprano, designed to be listened to while you are asleep.
Richter has staged many spectacular overnight performances in venues where audiences are provided with camp-beds,…
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