The Four Seasons has been recorded hundreds if not thousands of times, and a 2012 “recomposition” by Max Richter is among the most widespread. Diddy apparently has called “Spring” his theme music. As Alex Ross argued in The New Yorker, we now think of Vivaldi as “the Muzak of the middle classes, the backbeat of the bourgeois bustle.” This reputation mostly stems from The Four Seasons, which is ubiquitous beyond belief: The opening notes of “Spring” float above wedding processions, year after year the swells of “Summer” and the tumult of “Winter” have been perennial favorites of ad breaks and movie soundtracks for nearly a century. Listen to the best of Max Richter on Apple Music and Spotify.The Four Seasons is among the most famous pieces of music in the history of Western culture, beloved and derided in equal measure-like any omnipresent work of pop. Think we’ve missed one of your best Max Richter songs? Let us know in the comments section, below. The best Max Richter songs barely scratch the surface of his full range of music, but they offer a fascinating place to start. Richter’s early experiences with electronic artists such as Future Sound Of London and Roni Size set the scene for years of influential solo albums, a burgeoning career in soundtrack work (generated by his fine capabilities in musical storytelling) and many millions of streams. The eight-hour concept piece, coupled with its staged events, is, however, only one part of a mighty body of work. Almost all of them are heavily indebted to the Deutsche Grammophon-signed, British-German composer Max Richter, whose landmark extended post-minimalist work Sleep (recorded with American Contemporary Music Ensemble) wowed the world in 2015 and remains the cornerstone of the genre. The early 21st Century has been packed with post-classical adventures, as a new wave of composers, players and labels have combined some of the vibe of modern popular music with classical instrumentation, often in search of post-rave-era chillout sounds.
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