Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Experience Max Richter's "SLEEP" in the composer-performer's new channel radio station. Released in 2015 and co-conceived with his creative partner Yulia Mahr, Max Richter’s magnum opus "SLEEP", is regarded as one of the most ambitious and culturally significant classical music projects of the 21st century.
An 8-hour musical enquiry into how sound and the sleeping mind interact, it explores the effects of subsonics and repetition to enhance slow wave sleep. Discover selected highlights from the work.
The all-night performances of ‘SLEEP’ have become distinctive cultural events that challenge how we experience music; blurring the lines between concert and art installation and taking place in the world's most iconic settings such as the Sydney Opera House, Philharmonie de Paris and The Great Wall of China.
“Playing SLEEP live is unforgettable. The feeling of a community of strangers deeply connected through this music ritual is overwhelming, and like no other musical experience.” (Max Richter)
For this 10th anniversary, Max Richter also released a new album, 'Sleep Circle', DG.lnk.to/SLEEPCircle, a 90-minute journey into the hypnagogic state – the period during which the brain transitions from from consciousness and sleep to the dreaming state.
Sleep Circle is informed by the experience of his concert performances of the original album. Max Richter comments: “Some of these compositions, such as Dream 11, Moth-like Stars or Non-Eternal, are so rich in their poetic core that I wanted the music to be experienced in a more traditional way. "I first wrote a structure for a concert performance. The new version we’ve recorded now is based on these performances, which also means that it has a slightly different architecture. It’s like SLEEP distilled.”
There is also both a documentary about SLEEP and an app. Links to both can be found in the SLEEP website: maxrichter-sleep.com
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Experience Max Richter's "SLEEP" in the composer-performer's new channel radio station. Released in 2015 and co-conceived with his creative partner Yulia Mahr, Max Richter’s magnum opus "SLEEP", is regarded as one of the most ambitious and culturally significant classical music projects of the 21st century.
An 8-hour musical enquiry into how sound and the sleeping mind interact, it explores the effects of subsonics and repetition to enhance slow wave sleep. Discover selected highlights from the work.
The all-night performances of ‘SLEEP’ have become distinctive cultural events that challenge how we experience music; blurring the lines between concert and art installation and taking place in the world's most iconic settings such as the Sydney Opera House, Philharmonie de Paris and The Great Wall of China.
“Playing SLEEP live is unforgettable. The feeling of a community of strangers deeply connected through this music ritual is overwhelming, and like no other musical experience.” (Max Richter)
For this 10th anniversary, Max Richter also released a new album, 'Sleep Circle', DG.lnk.to/SLEEPCircle, a 90-minute journey into the hypnagogic state – the period during which the brain transitions from from consciousness and sleep to the dreaming state.
Sleep Circle is informed by the experience of his concert performances of the original album. Max Richter comments: “Some of these compositions, such as Dream 11, Moth-like Stars or Non-Eternal, are so rich in their poetic core that I wanted the music to be experienced in a more traditional way. "I first wrote a structure for a concert performance. The new version we’ve recorded now is based on these performances, which also means that it has a slightly different architecture. It’s like SLEEP distilled.”
There is also both a documentary about SLEEP and an app. Links to both can be found in the SLEEP website: maxrichter-sleep.com
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![Max Richter - Dream 11 / Moth Like Stars Pt. 3 (Faded) [Official Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_klwXq1sj2Q/mqdefault.jpg "Max Richter - Dream 11 / Moth Like Stars Pt. 3 (Faded) [Official Audio]
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“It’s like SLEEP distilled.” That’s how Max Richter describes Sleep Circle, his new album marking the tenth anniversary of his landmark project SLEEP. Sleep Circle is a hallucinatory 90-minute trip into the hypnagogic state – the liminal space between wakefulness and sleep in which dreams begin to take shape. The process of choosing Sleep Circle’s 24 tracks was informed by the insights Richter gained from live performances of an abridged version of his monumental opus. With its more intimate and focused approach to SLEEP, the new album highlights compositions such as “Dream 11 / Moth-Like Stars” and “Non-Eternal” in a structural arc that mirrors the natural 90-minute REM cycle. Recorded at Studio Richter Mahr in Oxfordshire, Sleep Circle showcases Max Richter’s unique ability to translate profound human experience into music, offering listeners a space to slow down and reconnect with their inner selves.
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![Max Richter - Dream 0 (till break of day) | [Short Edit]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/c-tjIQxvl5g/mqdefault.jpg "Max Richter - Dream 0 (till break of day) | [Short Edit]
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For this new EP, SLEEP: Piano Edition, Max Richter has focused on his own instrument and created three extended reimagined tracks for solo piano.
For Richter, the piano is a sketch pad – the starting point for new creative ventures, enabling subconscious ideas to float up to the surface as he begins composing. As he notes, the instrument also plays a key role in SLEEP: “One of the two main themes is very slow-moving, pulsed piano music – the instrument is one of the main characters in the piece.” It was therefore a natural choice to go back to the keyboard and strip certain sections of the larger work down to their basic structures.
SLEEP: Piano Edition has the same spacious and immersive qualities as its epic parent work. Whether we listen to one track or the seamless flow of all three, the slow, steady rhythms, repetitions and subtle transformations offer a sense of familiarity and security.
“SLEEP is a piece about finding a place to pause, a place to rest,” concludes the composer. “Because even though the world is very exciting, it’s also now very exhausting, especially psychologically, with the advent of 24-hour news, social media, the internet completely saturating our lives. We’re beset by ecological, social, political, troubles. Obviously, the best way we can deal with these is to have a clear mind. In order to do that, we need to find ways to kind of settle our minds down. And SLEEP offers one such opportunity.”
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Filming by Studio Richter Mahr https://studiorichtermahr.com/
Camera by Marie Sutter https://www.instagram.com/mariesutter/?hl=de")
