MAX RICHTER OPEN AIR CONCERT: SOUTH FACING FESTIVAL

2021-08-21

The Max Richter Ensemble play their simplest British show this year, establishing with his conventional work INFRA and presenting his acclaimed new work VOICES – a collaboration among Max Richter and Yulia Mahr. The Max Richter Ensemble is performed by means of Robert Ziegler, with Grace Davidson soprano, Mari Samuelsen violin and the choir Tenebrae. This Event will take region on Saturday 28th Aug 2021 5:30pm at Crystal Palace Park Concert Bowl, London. VOICES is a primary paintings created through Max Richter and his creative companion Yulia Mahr proposing textual content adapted from the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. At the heart of VOICES is a profound feel of world network, born out of Richter’s profession-lengthy view of music as activism and his desire to unite audiences global. Described via Richter as “an area to think”, VOICES changed into a reaction to our tempestuous political climate and the iconic want for compassion. VOICES opens with a 1949 recording of Eleanor Roosevelt reading the Declaration and includes excerpts examine with the aid of a worldwide community of 70 voices. INFRA is Max Richter’s musical reaction to the London 07/07 terror attacks, also stimulated by using T.S Eliot’s modernist poem The Waste Land.