Memoryhouse (album)
| Memoryhouse | ||||
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| Studio album by Max Richter | ||||
| Released | May 27, 2002 | |||
| Recorded | 1999-2001 | |||
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| Length | 55:34 | |||
| Label | Late Junction | |||
| Producer |
Max Richter Jane Carter (exec. producer) | |||
| Max Richter chronology | ||||
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| Alternative cover | ||||
_(Reissue).png) 2009 reissue cover |
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Memoryhouse is the 2002 debut album by neo-classical composer Max Richter. Originally released in 2002 under the Late Junction label, the album was reissued by FatCat Records in 2009 and 2014 with alternative album artwork.[1][2]
Critical reception
| Professional ratings | |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| Pitchfork | 8.7/10[4] |
Memoryhouse received largely positive reviews from contemporary music critics.
Grayson Haver Currin of Pitchfork Media gave the album a very positive review in a retrospective review for the 2014 reissue on FatCat, stating, "Memoryhouse has become a landmark of the amorphous scene that would eventually earn the tags “post-classical” or “indie classical.” Memoryhouse remains audacious but careful, intimate but vivid, innovative but reverent. In 2002, Richter’s ability to weave subtle electronics against the grand BBC Philharmonic Orchestra helped suggest new possibilities and locate fresh audiences that composers such as Nico Muhly and Michał Jacaszek have since pursued. As you listen to new work by Julianna Barwick or Jóhann Jóhannsson, thank Richter; just as Sigur Rós did with its widescreen rock, Richter showed that crossover wasn’t necessarily an artistic curse. Nearly a dozen years later, the material finally got its due."[4]
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Max Richter.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Europe, after the Rain" | 6:13 |
| 2. | "Maria, the Poet (1913)" | 4:47 |
| 3. | "Laika's Journey" | 1:30 |
| 4. | "The Twins (Prague)" | 1:58 |
| 5. | "Sarajevo" | 4:03 |
| 6. | "Andras" | 2:42 |
| 7. | "Untitled (Figures)" | 3:27 |
| 8. | "Sketchbook" | 1:54 |
| 9. | "November" | 6:21 |
| 10. | "Jan's Notebook" | 2:41 |
| 11. | "Arbenita (11 Years)" | 7:04 |
| 12. | "Garden (1973)/Interior" | 3:24 |
| 13. | "Landscape with Figure (1922)" | 5:14 |
| 14. | "Fragment" | 1:26 |
| 15. | "Lines on a Page (One Hundred Violins)" | 1:22 |
| 16. | "Embers" | 3:38 |
| 17. | "Last Days" | 4:18 |
| 18. | "Quartet Fragment (1908)" | 3:02 |
Total length: |
65:04 | |
Personnel
- Main personnel
- Max Richter – composer, mixing, primary artist, producer
- BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – orchestra
- Levine Andrade – viola
- Alexander Bălănescu – soloist, violin
- Kirsteen Davidson Kelly – piano
- Judith Herbert – cello, soloist
- Sarah Leonard – soloist, soprano
- Rumon Gamba – conductor
- Additional personnel
- John Cage – readings, text
- Jane Carter – executive producer
- Neil Hutchinson – engineer, mixing
- Mandy Parnell – remastering
- Ania Piesiewicz – photography
- Sarah Sutcliffe – readings
- Marina Tsvetaeva – text
References
- ↑ FatCat Press Release: 2009 Memoryhouse (Reissue)
- ↑ FatCat Press Release: 2014 Memoryhouse Deluxe Edition (Reissue)
- ↑ "Memoryhouse – Max Richter". AllMusic. 2003-09-23. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
- 1 2 Currin, Grayson Haver. Max Richter: Memoryhouse. Pitchfork Media. 2 April 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
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