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Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works
Classical · 2017 · 16 tracks · 1h 6m

Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works

Max Richter

A literary triptych of modern classical compositions. Archival voices, pulsing synths, and mourning strings translate Virginia Woolf's prose into sound.

January 27, 2017 · Deutsche Grammophon

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A profound, literary-minded meditation on the fragility of life and the persistence of memory.

Tracklist · 16 Tracks · 1h 6m
01
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works: I. Mrs. Dalloway: Words
1:02
02
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works: II. Mrs. Dalloway: In the Garden
5:17
03
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works: III. Mrs. Dalloway: War Anthem
6:56
04
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works: IV. Mrs. Dalloway: Meeting Again
6:07
05
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works: V. Orlando: Memory Is the Seamstress
0:35
06
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works: VI. Orlando: Modular Astronomy
3:14
07
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works: VII. Orlando: Entropy
1:32
08
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works: VIII. Orlando: Transformation
2:06
09
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works: IX. Orlando: Morphology
3:07
10
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works: X. Orlando: The Tyranny of Symmetry
1:27
11
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works: XI. Orlando: The Explorers
2:05
12
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works: XII. Orlando: Persistence of Images
3:16
13
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works: XIII. Orlando: Genesis of Poetry
3:54
14
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works: XIV. Orlando: Possibles
1:29
15
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works: XV. Orlando: Love Songs
2:34
16
Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works: XVI. The Waves: Tuesday
21:38
Moments Worth Listening For
The crackling 1937 recording of Virginia Woolf's own voice emerging through a haze of static in the opening track.
The relentless, driving cello ostinato in War Anthem that builds a sense of inevitable historical tragedy.
The way the final twenty-one minute track Tuesday mimics the rhythmic, eternal pull of the tide using a solo soprano voice.
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How does Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works sound next to the rest of Max Richter's catalogue?

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The writing leans far further into storytelling than the rest of the catalogue.

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