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riginally released in 2002, Max Richter's out-of-print debut, Memoryhouse, gets a long overdue re-release, shedding light on a blank spot in the composer's career. The album is a formative, somewhat derivative experience, one filled with half-formed ideas and moments of exquisite beauty, a clear omen of the better work to come. Recorded with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Memoryhouse finds Richter at a germinal stage, ranging between the somewhat dry and the heartily excessive, both in near total thrall of the work of Phillip Glass: String and choral sections are escalated at a careful pace, dramatic arpeggios crawling toward bursting crescendos....
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