Max Richter has a new album on the way, titled In A Landscape.
Due out in September, the composer and pianist’s ninth studio record was recorded at Studio Richter Mahr, the Oxfordshire studio that he and his wife, the visual artist Yulia Mahr, jointly designed and run. To mark the announcement, Richter has shared lead track ‘Movement, Before All Flowers’, which you can listen to below.
“For me, the music on the record is about connecting or reconciling polarities,” Richter said of In A Landscape in a press statement. “The electronics with the acoustic instruments, the natural world with the human world, and the big ideas of life with the personal and intimate.”
He continued: “This is a dynamic I started to explore in my 2004 record The Blue Notebooks, and the new project shares many of that album’s concerns; in a way this record is another look at the themes of the earlier work, but from the perspective of our world and our lives in 2024.”
Richter will support the album with his first-ever world tour, which will see him play across the UK and Europe, Australia, North America and Asia through the latter part of 2024 and into 2025. You can find the full list of dates announced so far here.
Decca will release In A Landscape on September 6, 2024.
