Max Richter - Sleep Circle [3LP]

Format: 3 x LP
Catalogue No.: 4867217
Barcode: 028948672172
Release Date: 05 Sep 2025
Genre: Modern Classical

This new album you hold in your hands, Sleep Circle, is this newly recorded, abridged version of Sleep informed by those concert experiences and focusing on the movements within the composition that are more in the foreground. This way Sleep Circle becomes a hallucinatory 90-minute trip into the hypnagogic state. For Max, the approach offered new insights into his epic composition: “Some of these compositions, such as Dream 11, Moth-like Stars or Non-Eternal, are so rich in their poetic core that I wanted the music to be experienced in a more traditional way. I first wrote a structure for a concert performance. The new version we’ve recorded now is based on these performances, which also means that it has a slightly different architecture. It's like Sleep distilled.” 
 
Tracklist:
01 Dream 11 / Moth-Like Stars Pt.1
02 Dream 11 / Moth-Like Stars Pt.1
03 Dream 11 / Moth-Like Stars Pt.3
04 Dream 11 / Moth-Like Stars Pt.4
05 Path 3 / Whose Name Is Written On Water Pt.1
06 Path 3 / Whose Name Is Written On Water Pt.2
07 Patterns / Solo Pt.1
08 Patterns / Solo Pt.2
09 Patterns / Solo Pt.3
10 Return Pt.1
11 Return Pt.2
12 Dream 11 / Moth-Like Stars Pt. 5
13 Dream 11 / Moth-Like Stars Pt. 6
14 Dream 11 / Moth-Like Stars Pt. 7
15 Non-Eternal Pt.1
16 Non-Eternal Pt.2
17 Non-Eternal Pt.3
18 Chorale
19 Dream 0 Pt.1
20 Dream 0 Pt.2
21 Dream 0 Pt.3
22 Dream 0 Pt.4
23 Dream 0 Pt.5
24 Dream 0 Pt.6