Max Richter - Vladimir's Blues / @coversart

00:00 Max Richter - Vladimir's Blues
02:35 Max Richter - A Catalog of Afternoons

Note from the composer:

"This is from my album The Blue Notebooks. The ‘Vladimir’ of the title is the writer Vladimir Nabokov, who (like me) had a keen interest in butterflies and was an expert on the family known as ‘The Blues’.
Another expert on butterflies was the pianist Walter Gieseking, whose playing of Chopin I much admire; therefore I have borrowed the oscillating right-hand figure from Chopin’s Nocturne Op.15 No.1 – The movement is a little like the flapping of wings."

Both compositions were included in the albums The Blue Notebooks and Voyager: Essential Max Richter.
(*"A Catalog of Afternoons" appeared on The Blue Notebooks: 15 Years Edition)

"Vladimir's Blues" is featured throughout all three seasons of the TV series The Leftovers.

**The Blue Notebooks is the second album by British producer and composer Max Richter, released on 26 February 2004 on 130701, an imprint of FatCat Records.

On 11 May 2018, Deutsche Grammophon released a two-disc fifteenth-anniversary edition of The Blue Notebooks which includes re-recordings, alternate arrangements, and remixes.

Richter composed The Blue Notebooks in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He has described it as "a protest album about Iraq, a meditation on violence – both the violence that I had personally experienced around me as a child and the violence of war, at the utter futility of so much armed conflict." The album was recorded about a week after mass protests against the war.

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