Max Richter is one of the most influential composers of his generation. His fusion of classical technique and electronic technology, heard across genre-defining solo albums and countless scores for film, dance, art and fashion, has won him legions of fans around the world and blazed a trail for a generation of musicians. 

His ninth solo album – the first to be written and recorded at his serene new studio in rural Oxfordshire – is a fleeting self-portrait of a musician in constant motion. IN A LANDSCAPE is a record about “reconciling polarities,” as Richter puts it, bringing together the electronic and the acoustic, the human and the natural world, the big questions of life and the quiet pleasures of living. 

The 19-track album began life in summer 2022 as a natural counterweight to the urgent political tenor of his previous projects: EXILES, a ballet score about the refugee crisis, and VOICES, constructed with a “negative orchestra” and hundreds of readings of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights. Richter’s ongoing commissions, meanwhile, were similarly dramatic and conceptual, including a ballet adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s post-apocalyptic MADADDAM, music for a Mark Rothko retrospective, and scores for Johan Renck’s sci-fi drama SPACEMAN and the Elisabeth Moss spy thriller THE VEIL .