The Blue Notebooks - 15 Years

I've got a love/hate relationship with Max Richter's work but, along with Sleep (which is an absolute masterpiece), Blue Notebooks is one of his two really great outputs. I had this on CD from when it was first released and listen to it a lot, but, preferring to listen to music on record, I thought I'd treat myself to the vinyl re-release. I am, I can assure you, not super picky about, or particularly sensitive to, sound quality changes between formats but this is probably the worst vinyl mastering and/or pressing I have ever heard. It sounds like it's being played in another room. I have to completey adjust my EQ from the settings I use to listen to any other record even to get it close to acceptable. Really disappointing as the music itself is beautiful and I'd expect better from Deustche Grammophon.

I bought this record on vinyl a few months ago and every time I play it, it just gets better and better. Richter is a master of combining melody and ambience. A perfect record to sit back, close your eyes and enjoy.

The music of Max Richter is minimal and beautiful I think, but essentially if you're listening to The Blue Notebooks carefully, it makes just about every movement you make incredibly profound. I have tried listening to this album on headphones and thought I was in a scene of an artistic film. I would recommend The Blue Notebooks to anyone who is interested in Post-Classical music, it's a mix of light classical with elements of techno as compositions and even crows making a welcome appearance. It is a majestic and wonderful piece of work and I haven't been able to stop playing it since I bought it. Well worth getting hold of.

I didn't really have a clue who Max Richter was. The only reason I became aware of him was because of his involvement with the "My Beautiful Friend" project.I came across "The Blue Notes" on Amazon and thought long and hard before deciding to purchase it.Am I glad I did, I think this is a beautiful album of haunting music a sort of cross over between Phillip Glass and Brian Eno.I absolutely love this and I will be listening to more of Mr Richter's work.

Listened to it lots on Spotify before buying - worth having on CD for the better quality sound and to pay my way to the artist. I love it and plan to get From Sleep next.If you've not heard it, it's beautiful orchestral melody - fairly simple repetitive melodies which evolve. Some may sound familiar as it's made it's way on to movie soundtracks and other places on TV. There are narrated sections in and around the music and sound effects which add to the atmosphere.

Listening, meditation, yoga, thought provoking, learning, creativity, classical plus techno, other people of the arts involved.Yippee🤓🤓☺🤗🤔

Like Memoryhouse, Max Richter's sadly deleted first CD, this album is suffused with a forlorn melancholia. The quotes from Franz Kafka (beautifully read by Tilda Swinton), compound the feeling that this is a nostalgic homage to the lost world of East European cultures that were shattered by Stalinist purges and Nazi pogroms. The standout track, 'The Shadow Journal', is impossibly beautiful, distilling the album's sense of loss into an achingly sad refrain for violin and, suprisingly, a jay!Small but perfectly formed.

Curious as a was i ordered this special edition of The NoteBook.Although CD 1 is overall the same but in my humble opinion better in sound quality, CD2 gave me almost a Hart attack! What's that suddenly beat ( track 5 and 6 )? And then that girls voice ruining track 7 ?Not my piece if cake and not what you can expect from Richter