Discussing the album with NPR Classical in 2017 Richter stated " People were downloading ringtones at the time and I felt this was a missed opportunity for composers . That there was a space opening up , maybe a billion little loudspeakers walking around the planet , but nobody was really thinking of this as a space for creative music . So I set out to make these tiny little fragments and then , of course , in the poetic sense , the idea of these little sound carrying objects traversing the planet , I started to think of these as a connection , as a sort of postcard into somebody 's life , into their space . " Richter 's 2010 album '' Infra '' takes as its central theme the 2005 terrorist bombings in London , and is an extension of his 25-minute score for a ballet of the same name choreographed by Wayne McGregor and staged at the Royal Opera House . '' Infra '' comprises music written for piano , electronics and string quintet , plus the full performance score and material that subsequently developed from the construction of the album . '' Pitchfork '' described the album as " achingly gorgeous " and '' The Independent '' newspaper characterised it as " a journey in 13 episodes , emerging from a blur of static and finding its way in a repeated phrase that grows in loveliness . " Richter 's recomposed version of Vivaldi 's '' The Four Seasons '' , '' Recomposed by Max Richter : Vivaldi – The Four Seasons '' , was premiered in the UK at the Barbican Centre on 31 October 2012 , performed by the Britten Sinfonia , conducted by André de Ridder and with violinist Daniel Hope . Although Richter said that he had discarded 75 % of Vivaldi 's original material , the parts he does use are phased and looped , emphasising his grounding in postmodern and minimalist music . The album topped the iTunes classical chart in the UK , Germany and the US . The US launch concert in New York at Le Poisson Rouge was recorded by NPR and streamed
2005 terrorist bombings in London
7 July 2005 London bombings
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