Songs from Before (Max Richter album)

Songs from Before
Studio album by Max Richter
Released October 23, 2006
Studio Eastcote Studios
(London, England)
The Exchange Studios
(London, England)
Genre
Length 37:18
Label 130701
Max Richter chronology
The Blue Notebooks
(2004)
Songs from Before
(2006)
24 Postcards in Full Colour
(2008)
Alternative cover
2014 reissue cover

Songs from Before is the 2006 album by neo-classical composer Max Richter, released on October 23, 2006 on 130701, an imprint of FatCat Records.[1] The album was reissued on April 25, 2014 on Deutsche Grammophon.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork8.3/10[2]

Songs from Before received largely positive reviews from contemporary music critics.

Grayson Currin of Pitchfork Media gave the album a positive review, stating, "Richter takes techniques from the classics and modifies their approach to make more appropriate-- but no less efficacious-- statements for his own circumstances. Given Songs from Before's thematic conceit, this is appropriate: Richter isn't interested in changing the way the world hears his music as much as idealizing how he wants to hear it. He resurrects past idols for present idioms, his heroes, proclivities and experiences donned as unrepentantly as the nostalgia at Songs' core."[2]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Max Richter. 

No. Title Length
1. "Song"   4:12
2. "Flowers for Yulia"   6:50
3. "Fragment"   1:41
4. "Harmonium"   4:21
5. "Ionosphere"   1:27
6. "Autumn Music 1"   3:54
7. "Time Passing"   1:51
8. "Sunlight"   5:35
9. "Lullaby"   0:53
10. "Autumn Music 2"   3:49
11. "Verses"   1:43
12. "From the Rue Vilin"   1:02
Total length:
37:18

Personnel

Main personnel
Additional personnel

Release history

Country Date
United Kingdom October 23, 2006
United States October 30, 2006

References

  1. Songs from Before: FatCat Press Release
  2. 1 2 Currin, Grayson. Max Richter: Songs from Before. Pitchfork Media. 28 November 2006. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
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