Max Richter: Sleep

Max Richter

Sleep

Deutsche Grammaophon

Easily my most played album of 2015 – easily, and yet it’s not, strictly an album. Here, Max Richter has created a soundtrack for sleep, but it’s more than just a settling score, it’s a musical evocation, a melodic translation of sleep. It’s a stretch – too (pardon the pun) – of the very idea of an album; of music ev…