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's tragic, history-based reasonings for each song, it's easy for NPR Tiny Desk Concert viewers to get lost in the office space around them and be transported to an emotional space Richter delivers them to in a new performance released Wednesday .
The composer was joined by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble to perform three of his masterpieces -- "On the Nature of Daylight" and "Vladmir's Blues" from "Halfway through this performance of Max Richter's achingly beautiful , I looked around the NPR Music office and saw trembling chins and tearful eyes," NPR writer Tom Huizenga. "Rarely have I seen so many Tiny Desk audience members moved in this way.
Nothing about his music is lighthearted. Buried deep within the sweeping, soaring strokes of the violin in "On the Nature of Daylight" or the mourning movement of the cello during "Infra 5" are universal stories of grief.is kind of an old-fashioned protest record in a way," Richter explained of the album containing the first two songs in his performance.
But the soft-pedaled playing of the piano for the second song "Vladmir's Blues" seems to bring a glimmer of hope into his miniature symphony. The titular character, Vladmir, is based on the Russian-born American novelist Vladmir Nabokov who had a growing obsession with a family of gossamer-winged butterflies called the blues.
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