Max Richter: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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Half way through this performance of Max Richter's achingly beautiful On The Nature Of Daylight, I looked around our NPR Music office and saw trembling chins and tearful eyes. Rarely have I seen so many Tiny Desk audience members moved in this way. There's something about Max Richter's music that triggers deep emotions.
In Daylight, which has been effectively used in movies such as Arrival and Shutter Island, a simple theme rolls out slowly in the low strings until a violin enters with a complimentary melody in a higher register. Richter, at the keyboard, adds a subterranean bass line for added gravitas, while high above another violin soars sweetly, mournfully. With all elements interlocked - and sensitively played by members of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble - the piece gently sways, building in intensity. It all adds up to a six-minute emotional journey that, if you open yourself to the sounds, can leave you wrung out.
"I'm very interested in the idea of a piece of music being a place to think," Richter explained, adding that he had written Daylight as a response to the 2003 Iraq War.
Richter, whose music can't be easily pigeonholed, lightened the mood with a miniature called Vladimir's Blues. Its delicately toggling chords are an homage to novelist Vladimir Nabokov who, in his spare time, was a respected lepidopterist, obsessed with a subfamily of gossamer-winged butterflies called the blues. Richter plays the piano with the practice pedal engaged for a warm, muted sound.
Again in the final piece, Richter counters violence with calming, thoughtful music. His ballet Infra is a meditation on the 2005 terrorist subway bombings in London. It's music about travel, too, Richter explains, saying that he was inspired by Schubert's melancholy song cycle Winterreise (Winter Journey).
In trying times, music by the soft-spoken Richter can feel like a safe haven, a place for personal reflection or a welcoming, utilitarian space to clear the mind.
SET LIST
"On The Nature Of Daylight"
"Vladimir's Blues"
"Infra 5"
MUSICIANS
Max Richter: piano, keyboard
American Contemporary Music Ensemble: Clarice Jensen: cello & artistic director; Ben Russell, violin; Laura Lutzke, violin; Isabel Hagen, viola; Claire Bryant, cello
CREDITS
Producers: Tom Huizenga, Morgan Noelle Smith, Kara Frame; Creative director: Bob Boilen; Audio engineers: Josh Rogosin, Alex Drewenskus; Editor: Kara Frame; Videographers: Maia Stern, Kara Frame, Jack Corbett; Associate Producer: Bobby Carter; Executive producer: Lauren Onkey; VP, programming: Anya Grundmann; Photo: Mhari Shaw/NPR - Hudba
I never could have imagined Max Richter being on here. This is a good day
Exactly my thoughts!!
Yeah made my day
Me neither!
This is a fantastic day!!! One of the absolute best love productions with such a fantastic artist... Epic.
me too, usually they present good music ;-)
If they don’t play On The Nature of Daylight at my funeral, then I’m not dying!!!
I hope this is playing at my funeral
this is what i am talking 😂😂
Read my mind,
me too
It's a good choice. But mine goes to Nick Cave & Warren Ellis. :D
”Despite knowing the journey, and where it leads, I embrace it, and welcome every moment of it” - Arrival
Ran Van Ongevalle It might not apply to my life but that quote has never left my mind, its just so powerful and beautiful
OH gosh! Knowing what the movie is about and hearing that quote. Oh my goodness. As a mother, that hits home.
@@sonoza5703 I think it applies to everyone. We know one day we're going to die but we can still embrace life and enjoy it.
@@thomasdiehn4469 we may know death is in the end, and suffering is most certainly along the way, but the beauty underlining it all and the joys intertwined make it all worthwhile. god i get emotional with this
Its use in Arrival is my fav of all .
"I’m very interested in the idea of Music being a place to think"- Max Richter. Love it.
And we thank him for this.
Спасибо за формулировку мысли.Прекрасно то, что авторов музыки много. Есть, что почитать и над чем поразмыслить.
Once you really dive into the ethereal soundscapes created by neoclassical geniuses like Nils Frahm, Olafur Arnalds, and Max Richter, there is truly no turning back .
JOEP BEVING = God
agreed
Nils Frahm is one of my favorites.
Hey could you give me some suggested recordings? Thanks so much in advance!
...+ Phillip Glass + Paul Leonard-Morgan + Joep Beving + GoGo Penguin.
Ok we got it. Your audio engineer can record any kind of music perfectly. Right.
It's probably a team of audio engineers, don't worry :)
@@PublicEnemy1337 the guy's name is Josh Rogosin and he basically does everything from what I can tell in interviews. Incredible
@@callumpassells67 it says there are two in the credits below the video.
@@callumpassells67 also the players are skilled professionals. not hard to make the recording sound good when the playing is already beautiful
This kind of setting is one of the most unusual professional studios it's just an office with books. Lol figure its hard to mic with miscellaneous objects clashing the sound.
Crying after 4 seconds, even after knowing this piece for years...
No comments
i think live performance gives it a unique power
Been keeping to come back to this video for years every now and then. Every time after around 4 sec I'm lost.
The hallmark of a musician is his ability to unearth what you've chosen to bury for ages.
@sam_everlast Thank you. Very touching comment.
My wife?
If anyones interested I'd so appreciate if you check my CZcams channel! I post different genres of music & compose my own music in Contemporary Classical genre. Thank you guys! ❤🎹🤗
That is so meaningful
Thank you for your potent comment. Broke my heart open. I'm a pianist composer. Haven't played much due to a challenging home situation. This is changing in a month. Then I will have a marathon love affair with my precious piano.
I had never heard of Max Richter until I played this episode of the podcast and was moved to tears while I drove home. I am so grateful to Tiny Desk and All Songs Considered for introducing me to so much wonderful music that I never would have discovered otherwise. There is so much beauty in the world. It isn't always easy to find it.
Every song he makes is masterful. Never goodbye is a great example too
Bill, you are so right!
I have the same experience
The first one caught me completely off guard. I'm a mess.... lol!
Bill Coffin add the channel KEXP to your list and you’re pretty much golden 👌
To everyone who liked this performance: you'll probably also like Ólafur Árnalds' tiny desk performance :)
i'm waiting for a nils frahm and yann tiersen perfomance
Thank you for the suggestion!
why you make me more sad
Please get Loopdaddy on! Marc Rebillet. He's a rising star.
Cheers for the suggestion!
On The Nature Of Daylight will never fail to make me cry
its really a powerful song
same here , usually at 1:53 :)
Just completely stops you in your tracks. Devastatingly beautiful.
@@jesaja As beautiful as it is in its original rendition, I can't unhear the flip with Dinah's "This Bitter Earth".
Any movie scored by Max is gonna have you in the feels
TV show too. His music is a huge part of why The Leftovers was so amazing
Perfect Sense
Looking forward to what he does with score of season two of My Brilliant Friend.
ugh, the flashback/forward scene in Arrival
Bryan Choate the ending montage had me sobbing lol
@@radiation360 it was phenomenal. ❤
"I used to think this was the beginning of your story. Memory is a strange thing. We are so bounded by time, by its order. But now I am not sure if I believe in beginnings and endings".
who said it?
@@oingoboingo1720 Louise Banks, from The movie Arrival.
Our beginning and ending was never up to us. We are the creation of another's ink. We are millstones in deep waters fighting not to sink. Marbles upon sand trying to find their way. Just sketches on artist page in his power to erase...or to save. Like beautiful monarchs in the sky short lifespan at anytime can be taken away. Myself still swinging from this chrysalis attached to a tree yet to reach full maturity. Briefer than the music in dreams, is being loved; they say love oneself the beginning of, I disagree, being loved by another is the beginning of all things. By words we were created, by words the world was made.
@@orren6635 I agree on you but just one thing. You Need to love yourself to really apreciate the truly Nature of what is love first. But maybe that happens only when someone loves you? So in the end im totally agree ha ha
My brother died 3 months ago. Suicide. I often go to his gravesite and play this video. It helps me. Helps me feel things that I haven't felt since his death. Helps me feel warmth and comfort. Helps me think back and remember memories of him. I'm so thankful for Max Richter and his ability to make me feel these things with his beautiful music.
My condolences
Music has the power to heal. Suicide in America is all too common. I have lost family to suicide, and I've known other people who have, as well. As my mother used to say, take a few minutes each day just for yourself...find a moment of joy, beauty, and peace.
i really hope your ok
Keep taking the miusic to heal! My hope is with you❤
So sorry for your loss. Max Richters music has also helped me process my grief with my mom and other childhood traumas. She died from accidental overdose. His music helps me feel the big emotions that I have a hard time communicating or understanding
I know this sentiment has been expressed over and over already here, but “On the Nature of Daylight” was the song I showed a friend in order to explain what I felt while I was going through a very hard time in my life. After which they simply said “I had no idea. I’m so sorry.” The power of Max’s music to convey the human experience is incredible.
Amazing.
Wow, that's powerful. Music really is that impactful. Hope you're doing better!
the leftovers had the best score hands down ever. this man is truly talented
I learned of his genius through The Leftovers. As you said, the most emotional score to a show ever created.
At the end of "On The Nature Of Daylight", its so heartening to hear everyone wait until the very last note has faded before clapping!
Too busy wiping tears from their eyes, I know I was
I’m listning to this out shopping groceries and feeling this is the most imortant decision I’ve ever make!
Max Richter pulling out the greatest hits!
not without November, it isn't
My daughter was born to "On The Nature of Daylight" its forever sealed into my mind in connection to one of the best days of my life. Thanks Max
May your daughter have an epic, successful life.
Oh god, I can only imagine the first baby cry entwined into this calm cello sound...
@@readonly1981 I'm actually imagining a screaming woman as someone plays the violin in the background
When my mum passed I listened to this nonstop - it's a music for the whole journey and beyond
TINY DESK! YOUR WORK IS NOT IN VAIN. THANK YOU FOR THESE PERFORMANCES YOU GUYS SHOWCASE ALL THE TIME. THANK YALL!
Why am I feeling this heartache out of nowhere and my tears welling
Music reaches where your heart hides.
I think that those seconds of frozen silence from the whole room after "On the Nature of Daylight ends" say it all
I love this rendition of Daylight. The two higher register voices (the violins) are not overpowering, but are softly carried by the warmth of the cellos and viola below.
Absolutely, one doesn't often hear such a superb string sound.
This kinds of things are probably why the aliens have not destroyed humanity.
Hahahahaha perhaps so. I bet it was a close call though. Let’s all keep tipping it towards being worthy of staying
Well, apparently, if I am understanding the man correctly(am I not?) - "On the Nature of Daylight" is kind like a musical reflexive protest on the U.S war in Irak. Sapiens Sapiens is the Alien destroying the aboriginal plan while listening to his own very depressive mourning violins.
Yup. Just ask the Trisolarians.
But they might, if we don't stop destroying this artpieces with advertisement...
On the Nature Of Daylight ist the saddest-most beautifulest song of the modern age. it goes deeper than anything i ever heard before. it accompanies me for a long time of my life now and i cannot do anything but cry as soon as it starts. world-weariness in its purest form. it could also be called on the nature of humanity, on nature or on all there is. thank you max, i hope you know how important and exceptional your work is.
Hearing this song makes me feel like I had a great past life
Anyone else cry every time they hear this? It just brings up so many feelings and memories, it really is an incredible piece of music.
Jup me I can't listen to max richter without crying
The best day of my life. I'm only one minute in but Im already in tears.
feeling you
Have you watched the series The Leftovers? It's on HBO, I think. Max Ritcher is the composer. His music captures the mood of that story perfectly.
Phumlile Kunene me too.
On the Nature of Daylight is right up there on my top 10 favorite pieces of music of all time. An absolute masterpiece I can’t listen to in public because I will weep uncontrollably
You know I've had my head tilted up to the stars for as long as I can remember. You know what surprised me the most? It wasn't meeting them. It was meeting you.
*_0:02_**_ - On The Nature Of Daylight_*
7:12 / 7:29
*_9:14_**_ - Vladimir's Blues_*
10:35 / 10:45
*_11:48_**_ - Infra 5_*
17:03
Pentameron I’m here sometimes just to hear his speaking voice so thx for the timestamps 💙
Thank you
We had to take our daughter to the ER this morning... when they told me one parent I was heart broken, angry and felt useless.. my wife luckily can be with her but it’s killing me just sitting in the parking garage with my anxiety and stress.
I have been listening to his music for about 3 hours now, it is extremely healing and calming. Thank you Max for making this heavenly music
Wishing your daughter well my friend, i hope all is well.
@@utfreak41 thank you, that means a lot. She is doing better and now back home
I just now saw your post here, Steffan. I sure hope things are going better for your family. Sorry you didn’t get much of a response six months ago; but when I browsed through the comments, it seems like many listeners were also just treading water in life.
But you deserved more-and still do. Good wishes to you, Steffan, and your daughter and your wife.
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-Denny
Hope all is well
I’ve been through this exact experience. I can relate. Cheers to you and I hope your little girl is doing well.
To the viola player: Your ability to transpose feelings and expression through your playing is confoundingly beautiful, your emotional cadence unmatched. I think I am in love.
It really brings me somewhere I tried to forget
Whether intentional or not, her facial expressions helped sell that performance. She could have been concentrating, or maybe even constipated, but what it conveyed was the emotions of that piece.
She’s actually a comedian, Isabel Hagen. It may be that that you are picking up on. She also stood out to me like she was lit in neon, no small feat in a room full of apparent musical geniuses, so I had looked her up even before seeing your comment
That’s incredible she’s a comedian too very multi talented
Which one?
omg omg omg.. i was just listening to the leftovers soundtrack last night. Ive never seen a classical composer on here before. thats awesome.
"Hey... Look what I found"
You might like Olafur Arnalds as well, equally beautiful composer. I think he has a Tiny Desk episode too
@@exalted8659 Yess!!
It's 7:30 in the morning, and raining and i miss all the things i could never be but i am here, and i am content, and TinyDesk has Max Richter.
Listening to some of his music, like on the nature of daylight, makes me sad that I can't reach out and touch sound. I sort of want to wrap my arms around that song, bury my face into it, and cry.
this is so perfectly written
@@sarahcballoon I'm am a huge cultural snob. But your comment chimes with me. So well done for complimenting a heartfelt and beautiful reaction. Perfectly simple, unlike mine to you... 😉
Beautiful compositions, but also props to the outstanding string players. The melodies are simple, but made are so impactful by their impeccable phrasing. Playing notes is easy, but making it into music is the mark of professionals.
They’re all so precise.
Don't know why but my eyes started watering.Never heard or listened to this before.
"I'm very interested in the idea of music being a place to think." Interestingly enough, Mr. Richter's "Mrs. Dalloway, In the Garden" is one of my favorite music pieces to meditate to (I put it on repeat/loop and let it take me). I feel like I am thinking huge thoughts, expanding, just following each note as it comes - sort of like a thought.
I was thrilled to find this in my CZcams feed, and I thank you NPR, Mr. Richter, et al!
can't believe you got him here. hearing this live must be breath taking.
This man's music is so prolific, so profound, so complex and varied and unfailingly emotional. He is a gift.
It’s almost none of those things
I never listened to "classical music" growing up, and the first time I head nature of daylight I thought it was perhaps some obscure composer resurrected for a modern score. It wasn't though, turns out he walks among us, and he's a gentleman too. The nature of daylight made me cry my eyes out for some reason, and that's why I'll always love it.
First time I heard On the Nature of Daylight was with headphones on walking home from the train late at night. I thought my legs were going to give out with each step. Finally I just sat on a stoop and let the tears fall. Till this day, remains one of the most powerful pieces of music I’ve ever had the pleasure of experiencing. And I tear up every time. Brilliant.
You should try Agnus Dei by Samuel Barber or John Tavener's The Lamb.
TheCompleteGuitarist familiar with Samuel Barber. On my way to Tavener. Thanks!
Each couple of decades has its own "Adagio for strings", a slow, bittersweet chamber piece for strings that reflects the contradictions and challenges of the time and escapes classical music prison into pop stardom.
@@TheCompleteGuitarist Those are both choral pieces and are very different from On the Nature of Daylight, especially that second one with its disturbing dissonant sections. Maybe you could get closer with Eric Whitacre's "Lux Aurumque" (but it's not as bittersweet). But really you can find much more similar symphonic (or "modern classical") pieces on Jóhann Jóhannsson's "Orphée" album, especially "Flight From the City", which already shows up in CZcams's recommendations when you're listening to Nature of Daylight. (Probably no coincidence that Jóhann's work was also used for the Arrival OST.)
@@d0nj03 I never said they were the same as On the Nature of Daylight. There are string versions of both. Both pieces are very moving. In both string and choral versions. You don't have to like them. I don't want another version of On the Nature of Daylight. Just music that moves me.
In-fact I am equally moved by Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin. Vaughn William's Lark Ascending and Copeland's Appalacian spring.
A little ashamed to say I just discovered this guy a week ago
The Blue Notebooks album is phenomenal 😭❤️❤️
Don’t be ashamed, you got to hear something beautiful. Welcome to the fandom.
CZcams ads have NEVER felt more annoying or intrusive than during this Tiny Desk episode.
OrlandoClark - Turn on Ad Blocker. If you’re on iOS and don’t wanna have to pay for an app, use the ALOHA browser. VPN and ad blockers are built in. I was using it today for CZcams channels that have tons of ads, and it was the most peaceful (and un-annoying) experience.
If on Android, CZcams Vanced :)
Yes! So annoying
Skit to the very end of the video if you're on mobile. Than click replay.
CZcams Vanced. Look for the APK on Google
Lovely it’s on the order of modern minimalist composers like Steve Riech and Phillip Glass. It’s draws from the classical tradition but in a fresh modern way.
Oh tiny desk, u did it again
17minutes and 29 seconds of my heart breaking, finding joy and breaking again. Oh Max Richter, how you destroy me in death eternal...
........and now I'm crying.
Absolutely stunning.
Thank you, NPR ❤️
I heard Infra 5 today for the first time on WMHT FM. It brought tears. I didn't know why. Then right away I read up on its origins from the London bombings and listened to it several times more online, and now have found it on Tiny Concerts. A day I didn't expect--an afternoon of immersion into what matters.
I cried for the whole 17 minutes. What an incredible thing to witness.
I thought, ok, will watch it a couple of minutes. In the end I'm sitting up frozen and can't move. Stunning
I listen to "On The Nature Of Daylight" every day..It is a part of my life. Thank you Max Richter. ❤
On The Nature of Daylight -- absolutely one of my Top 5 pieces of music of all time. Just gorgeous. And oooooh, Max Richter, so amazingly talented.
Max Richter seems to be more of a thinking person, yet, "nature of daylight" takes away my breath almost every time I hear it, also the other pieces all exhale overwhelming beauty. Have to say the sound of the string section is delicate!
goosebumps at the first note....
I keep returning to this performance as i find it so incredibly moving...These Tiny Desk Concerts are a joy, it has opened my ears and mind to such a wide variety of music that i never knew existed..All of the performances seem to be recorded with such precision and craft that make the experience even better. Thank you so much for making these available to the general public, it really is appreciated. I wonder what i will discover next??
Ah, another morning listening to Max Richter. How to be eternally happy while crying.
Yes. Yes. OMG Yes. I’m going to donate to NPR right now because of this concert.
Lying down in bed during the pandemic. Tears rolling down my face. My soul captivated by the music and tortured by the emotions it evokes. The music is gut-wrenchingly beautiful.
I hope you are doing better. 🙏
I want this to play this at my dissertation, my graduation, my wedding, my first kid being born, my first kid getting married, my first kid watching his kid being born. And so on until the end of time.
Beautiful.
I always feel overwhelmed when listening to On the Nature of Daylight.
Became obsessed with Vladimir's Blues when watching The Leftovers. This is such a dream to see Max at the Tiny Desk
I really needed this today. I'm at home with the flu, being miserable. I love Max Richter and he played my favorite piece "Infra 5"
that left cello working soooo hard at Infra 5, gorgeous
We need a Max Richter once in a while, anytime...
Something about strings that pull at my heart’s strings, like, immediately. First notes! Beautiful, pure class. 👏🏻
It calls my soul, everytime
phlaurianne indeed! It’s hypnotic.
that‘s, that‘s what I love about music.
I've been listening to the studio master for years, but this live performance really brings to light the harmonic tension within the strings, a truly striking piece
Arrival and The Leftovers, masterpieces in their own rights, elevated so much further because of this man. Actually amazing.
this is the peak of beautiful music.
If you like this performance, please do yourself the favor and listen to Max`s "The Leftovers" score. Just utterly beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time, just like the show.
Max Richter = sublime transcendence of the material world to a place beyond time and space.
Listen to this again....and again.....and again
Had tears in my eyes on the first piece. A beautiful Tiny Desk Concert
I gasped when i saw this upload. Thank you, have a nice day, bye
2am, never felt better
Needed this. Thank you!
His music shakes me right to the core. All the emotions
So pleased to find he's as interesting, thoughtful, and articulate as I'd imagined he would be from his music.
I can never listen to that first song without hearing, "come back to me, come back to me."
Memoryhouse helped me through the darkest time of my life. I have wanted to see Max Richter in concert for years. This performance has solidified my desire to make that happen.
The first number was riveting, absolutely out of this world. Transcendent notes and harmonies.
I think this is the most profound and moving piece of music ever written. It is perfect.
There are more .. not too many .. I like his November a lot too
@@vidamariaixchel4962 There are.
Incredibly moving
this got to be the best recording quality out of any radio station in the world
OMG! 17 minutes of heaven. I love Max Richter’s music and would give anything to see and hear an entire live concert...
There is something special about music that can pull you out of the moment you are in
A living legend right before your eyes/ears. NPR keeps bringing the goods.
Fabulous layering, in the Gavin Bryars realm; creates a wondrous haunting feel.
Jesus' love never faailed me yet...
Steady. Bryars fans might get annoyed!
On the Nature of Daylight. One of the most beautiful songs I have ever found. 🤍
I think that's the first time in NPR Tiny Desk that an artist actually plays their best songs instead of the underground ones
Why do I cry every time I listen to this song? It's like I can't help it...fml
thanks Max for writing one of the most beautiful masterpieces I've ever heard in my life, on the nature of daylight
To me, Infra 5 as this ability to take a perfectly happy day and transformed it into sadness in the most appealing and beautiful way imaginable. I love it.
Miss you grandma
Just so you know, I just got hit in the face by a balls shaving machine ad in the middle of Vladimir’s Blues. There is a devil after all.
I’m sorry for your loss
The emotions evoked by his music and specially "on the nature of daylight" is very much indescribable!! It's a place, it's in the veins, unseen but felt!!
The facial expressions of the musicians is just art for its self.
I wonder if this guy realizes how many times he has made me cry and then feel an overwhelming exuberance for life... He is a magician or an alchemist of some rare kind.