{"product_id":"max-richter-the-blue-notebooks-20th-anniversary-edition","title":"Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks (20th Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g-a4p76CIAQ?si=GnPjRXav0wIoEnyR\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003eMax Richter had never even been to the Glastonbury Festival before he opened the Park Stage on Saturday 24 June 2023. He and his string ensemble were joined by Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton for a full-length performance of The Blue Notebooks, Richter’s second album, originally released in 2004. Photos from the Glastonbury gig now feature in the 20th-anniversary vinyl edition of The Blue Notebooks.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThe set of 2 crystal-clear vinyl LPs is packaged in a newly-designed blue gatefold sleeve, with a six-page booklet and art card. Available only in a limited and exclusive hand-numbered edition, it includes all the tracks from the expanded 2018 edition, together with the This Bitter Earth\/On The Nature Of Daylight mash-up – appearing for the first time on vinyl – and a brand-new solo piano version of On The Nature Of Daylight.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eIts title inspired by The Blue Octavo Notebooks, a collection of writings by Franz Kafka, The Blue Notebooks was composed in 2003. Introducing it to the Glastonbury crowd last year, Max Richter said, “It’s kind of a protest record, a response to what was happening in politics around the build-up to the Iraq war where I was really struck with doubt about what was happening. And I thought about Kafka, who’s the patron saint of doubt, and I thought about making a piece which expressed everything, and so we recorded this.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eWritten for strings and electronics, Richter’s meditative tracks are structured around Tilda Swinton’s readings from Kafka and the work of Polish poet Czesław Miłosz.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Deutsche Grammophon","offers":[{"title":"2LP \"Clear\" Colored Limited Edition, Numbered [LIMITED ONE COPY PER CUSTOMER]","offer_id":46532502913068,"sku":"486 6337","price":535.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0388\/0461\/9308\/files\/max-richter-the-blue-notebooks-20th-anniversary-edition.jpg?v=1793354149","url":"https:\/\/whitenoiserecords.org\/products\/max-richter-the-blue-notebooks-20th-anniversary-edition","provider":"WHITE NOISE RECORDS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}