Max Richter Brings Layered Soundscapes to the NAC
The composer performs Friday at Southam Hall with his latest album, 'In A Landscape,' blending electronic and acoustic worlds.
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Max Richter, one of the most influential composers of the modern era, will perform Friday, June 26 at 8 p.m. at Southam Hall, 1 Elgin Street, bringing his ninth solo album to Ottawa.
Richter's work fuses classical technique with electronic technology across solo albums and countless scores for film, dance, art, and fashion. His new album, "In A Landscape," was the first written and recorded at his studio in rural Oxfordshire and explores what he calls "reconciling polarities" — bringing together the electronic and acoustic, the human and natural world, the big questions of life and the quiet pleasures of living.
The album opens with a darkly enveloping prelude, "They Will Shade Us With Their Wings," and includes an elaborate version of 17th-century English composer John Eccles' "Love Song." Luminous piano and pensive electronic clouds appear throughout, with Richter emphasizing simplicity in construction: "The music feels very simple, but nothing is there by chance; all the notes are where I carefully placed them."
Richter will perform with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble in a roughly 2-hour show with intermission. Tickets start at $56, with 15% off for NAC subscribers. Under30 tickets (for anyone under 30) are $15. All My Relations tickets, welcoming the Indigenous community, are also available. Purchase through nac-cna.ca/en/event/40676.