Max Richter’s Songs from Before. On a rainy Sydney day I can’t help but compare the melancholic peace brought by the sound of rain and the electronic feed back / static noises used in many of these pieces.

Songs of Before

Listening to London Philharmonic Orchestra play Mambo, Blues and Tarantella by Mark-Anthony Turnage

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in Anders Hillborg’s Eleven Gates

Eleven Gates

D’om Le Vrai Sens (Clarinet Concerto 2010) & Nymphea for String Quartet & Electronics 1987 by Kaija Saariaho

Kaija Saariaho

Max Richter 24 Postcards in Full Colour – A Ringtone Album

24 Postcards in Full Colour

Memoryhouse by Max Richter played by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & Rumon Gamba

Riccardo Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra playing Bela Bartok Miraculous Mandarin

Miraculous Mandarin

Riccardo Chailly conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Bela Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra

Bartok Concerto for Orchestra