Max Richter Live: Royal Albert Hall

This is a milestone event for the award-winning British composer Max Richter. It’s his biggest ever concert and his first in the Royal Albert Hall, where the excellent acoustics will enhance his simple, atmospheric music.

If you haven’t heard Richter’s music, he sits on the fence of contemporary classical music and minimalism. He contriburted to the score for Martin Scorcese’s Shutter Island and Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir. 

Now, ten years after the release of his acclaimed album The Blue Notebooks, his work will be performed under the direction of British violinist Daniel Hope alongside the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Richter himself will be playing the piano, keyboards and electronics.

They will be playing The Four Seasons Recomposed, a Deutsche Grammophon release, which premiered in 2012. As the title suggests, this a piece in which Richter dismantled Vivaldi’s baroque masterpiece The Four Seasons and injected it with his own style. Gramophone magazine called it an ‘experimental hybrid’, combining a refreshingly new score with the comforting familiarity of Vivaldi’s original piece. 

Hope is one of Richter’s main ambassadors. Richter wrote The Four Seasons Recomposed with him in mind. Whilst other violinists sometimes play the piece, it is best-suited to Hope’s more casual playing style. Really, it would be wrong to see anyone else perform it before you've seen him.

Book now as it’s selling out fast and head for the stalls to make the most of the acoustics at the Royal Albert Hall whilst also watching Hope and Richter up close.