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Three Worlds – Music from Woolf Works presents music from Woolf Works, an award-winning ballet triptych that reunited Max Richter with his Infra collaborator, choreographer Wayne McGregor. Similar Infra, which paid tribute to T.Southward. Eliot'due south The Waste matter State and Schubert's Winterreise, Woolf Works is an homage to three of Virginia Woolf'due south greatest novels: Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves. And, like his previous collaboration with McGregor, Iii Worlds is a striking testament to how eloquently Richter translates the work of an creative person working in another medium into compelling music. As he captures the depth and breadth of the worlds Woolf created with her writing, he reflects on his own body of work. Following an extract of "Craftsmanship," the merely surviving recording of Woolf's voice (and some other reminder of how deftly Richter combines spoken discussion and found sounds into his music), Three Worlds begins with Dalloway-inspired pieces. The coaction of strings and pianoforte on "Meeting Over again" is quintessentially Richter, the tension between construction and aching emotions echoing his breakthrough The Blue Notebooks; meanwhile, the flowing sweetness of "In the Garden"is filled with as many poignant details as the novel that inspired it. After, "War Anthem" evokes the novel's tragic Globe War I veteran Septimus Smith with its distant -- merely all the same ominous -- drums. Richter'southward flair for incorporating electronics into his music comes to the fore on the Orlando portion of Three Worlds, arguably the album's most exciting stretch. He echoes the daring, unexpected life of the novel's gender-swapping protagonist with short, brisk pieces that move with besides much purpose to be only whimsical: "Modular Astronomy" sounds like it's streaking through time and space, while the arpeggios on "The Genesis of Poesy" trace clearly defined arcs. The Orlando pieces also show off Richter'due south impressive range, spanning the echoing drones of "Morphology" and the elegantly futuristic mesh of electronics and strings on "The Explorers." This part of Iii Worlds could easily be an album in its own right, something that could also be said of its final section, The Waves. Prefaced past a reading of Woolf's suicide notation by Gillian Anderson, "Tuesday" closes the album with slowly unfolding strings, brass, and vocals that are somehow unsettling in their steadiness, mirroring the concept of shared consciousness in the novel. While the album's finale may lose something without the ballet's visuals, it'southward still hit. Coming after the ballsy length and ambition of Sleep, 3 Worlds could seem similar a more minor work, but in its own right, it's some other triumphant reminder of Richter's luminescence equally a translator and creator.
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Words (Max Richter)

I. Words (Virginia Woolf speaking)

Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf, Author, Reader (BBC recording of 1937)