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Max Richter's upcoming piece called, "SLEEP" is an invitation for audience members to take a rest during the music. If you think Wagner's operas were too long and feared you might fall asleep in the ...

If you want to sleep better tonight, composer Max Richter has a proposition: Fluff your pillow, shut your eyes and let his music put you to bed. Richter has composed what he calls an “eight-hour ...

Max Richter, one of Britain’s leading contemporary composers, has written SLEEP - an eight hour long piece which is genuinely intended to send the listener to sleep... Here, DiS hosts an exclusive ...

It’s a lullaby for adults called “Sleep.” A really long lullaby. British composer Max Richter released an eight-hour album on Friday that’s meant to help people fall asleep as they listen to it, and ...

During the past few weeks I’ve been listening to “Sleep,” by the contemporary British composer and musician Max Richter. The wordless composition, which is scored for piano, strings, voice, and ...

The audience slept, dreamed and sometimes snored — it's okay, that's what it's for — through this trance-inducing experience. This might very well be the ultimate lullaby. Right at the start of the ...

“I’ve always thought that one of the more interesting things about music performance is how it relates to the space,” Max Richter tells me by telephone. The German-British composer describes the ...

When composer Max Richter wrote his score Sleep, he fully expected people to do just that when they listened to it. The eight-hour lullaby debuted in 2015 and Richter has been performing it live (and ...