Name: Sleep by Max Richter
Brand: Max Richter
SKU: 2894795266
Price: 9.9 USD
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Rating: 3 (217 reviews)

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Though the eight-hour work Sleep is one of the longest single pieces of classical music ever composed and the audience at its premiere were given beds instead of seats, Max Richter's intentions for the work were anything but sensational. Describing it as “an eight-hour personal lullaby for a frenetic world and a manifesto for a slower pace of existence," he consulted neuroscientist David Eagleman as he worked on these soft, gliding compositions for piano, strings, electronics and vocals, taking into account the nuances of dreaming sleep and deep sleep. Designed to be listened to while asleep, the low drones that wind through the work encourage a phase of sleep that consolidates memory and learning -- a process that might seem as thrilling as defragmenting a hard drive, but in Richter's hands, has the same aching-yet-inspiring beauty that has graced his work since The Blue Notebooks.
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Sleep

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1. Richter: Dream 1 (before the wind blows it all away)

2. Richter: Cumulonimbus

3. Richter: Dream 2 (entropy)

4. Richter: Path 3 (7676)

5. Richter: whose name is written on water

6. Richter: Patterns (cypher)

7. Richter: Solo

8. Richter: Aria 1

9. Richter: Return 2 (song)

10. Richter: nor earth, nor boundless sea

11. Richter: Dream 11 (whisper music)

12. Richter: moth-like stars

13. Richter: Path 17 (before the ending of daylight)

14. Richter: Space 26 (epicardium)

15. Richter: Patterns (lux)

16. Richter: Constellation 1

17. Richter: Constellation 2

18. Richter: Space 2 (slow waves)

19. Richter: Chorale / glow

20. Richter: Dream 19 (pulse)

21. Richter: Cassiopeia

22. Richter: Non-eternal

23. Richter: Song / echo

24. Richter: Aria 2

25. Richter: never fade into nothingness

26. Richter: Return 16 (time capsule)

27. Richter: if you came this way

28. Richter: Space 17 (chains)

29. Richter: Sublunar

30. Richter: Dream 17 (Alpha)

31. Richter: Dream 0 (till break of day)

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