Max Richter is a renown and celebrated German-born British composer and pianist who works within postminimalist and contemporary classical styles. Richter’s music has over one billion streams and one million album sales, with Sleep (2015) — an eight-and-a-half hour concept album based around the neuroscience of sleep— being ‘the most streamed classical record of all time.’

In the 2018 video below, director George Belfield provides an gritty and powerful portrayal of the delicate expansive subtly and excruciating depth of Richter’s “On the Nature of Daylight” (2004). The result is an artistic tour de force that touches on intimacy of sadness and the search for meaning in these dark times.