To link to the themes in today's video and the whole Christmas series, this is by Max Richter. It has the title noted above.
His work rejects neoliberalism and its toxic effect on life.
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I think I heard this music in that marvellous film ‘The Dig’?
Inga Marie suggests Arrival.
I am not sure.
Happy Christmas
Thanks. That’s the music used in the soundtrack of “Arrival”, a film I find both haunting and hopeful.
Happy Christmas. Thanks for all you do to kindle and keep alight hope.
Yes, I looked it up afterwards, Arrival it is.
And a sound Merry Christmas to you too.
As PSR states, Max Richter’s music was used in “Arrival” , indeed his music is used in many film and theatrical scores. Stefan Gregory composed the music in “The Dig” although it has a similar style to some compositions by Richter. Max Richter was born in Germany but is a British citizen – Stefan Gregory is Australian but I would associate the name ‘Stefan’ to German and East European areas. I note this as, in the film “The Choral” it is stressed (in the dialogue) how many composers of note were German – even Handel, who was born in Germany, only settled in England at the age of 27, becoming a British citizen about 5 years later. I found the music played on your ‘clip’ hauntingly and powerfully evocative, reminding me of how many composers from the 20th and 21st centuries are British – Britten, Tippett, Maxwell Davies, Arnold and Weir come to mind, to name but a few. Not only is this piece of music evocative, but the musicianship excellent – no visible conductor, just each player/musician interacting with each other with taking the lead or passing it over – and watched over by Richter.
I hope that you and your family are having a relaxing Christmas – mine is, as always, filled with music, and I thank you for sharing this piece of music.
Thank you Susan.
The Choral is our Christmas evening film.
“On the Nature of Daylight” is such a poignant piece, composed during the buildup to the Iraq war in 2003 and released on his 2004 album The Blue Notebooks, aiming to capture doubt and the futility of conflict. A time I remember well, as so many of us do, as we’d marched, to no avail, in protest to stop it.
Haunting. Had never heard it. Looks like a standard string quartet plus extra cello.
Very appropriate – especially for the ‘dead’ – or maybe ‘undefined’ – days between Christmas and New Year