From a Max Richter thread but it seems a shame for it to be languishing there:
Some album suggestions—
Conventionally pretty, melodically-oriented 'classical' music from the past 50 years or so:
Ole Buck, Landscapes
Victor Kissine, Between Two Waves
Alexander Knaifel, Svete Tikhiy
Kate Moore, Dances and Canons
Octavian Nemescu, Musique pour réveil
Hans Otte, Das Buch der Klänge (Herbert Henck)
Arvo Pärt, Tabula rasa
Doina Rotaru, L'éternel retour
Valentin Silvestrov, Piano Sonatas & Cello Sonata (Alexei Lubimov & Ivan Monighetti)
Howard Skempton, Lento
Toru Takemitsu, riverrun / Water-ways / Rain Coming / Rain Spell / Tree Line
Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir, In the Light of Air
Slightly further afield:
Hans Abrahamsen, Schnee
Jérôme Combier, Gone
Pascal Dusapin, O Mensch!
Sofia Gubaidulina, The Canticle of the Sun / Music for Strings, Celesta and Percussion (Mstislav Rostropovich, et al.)
Saed Haddad, Les deux visages de l'Orient
Marko Nikodijević, dark/rooms
Per Nørgård, Works for Harp and Ensemble
Bent Sørensen, Mignon
Haukur Tómasson, Flute Concertos 1 & 2 / Skima
Helena Tulve, Sula
It goes without saying that there is infinitely more to contemporary 'classical' music, but since we're discussing Max Richter's output, I'd argue that these records broadly adhere to a more or less 'traditional' conception of aesthetic beauty (especially the former list). As a side note—and this is no coincidence—quite a few of them are from ECM's catalogue.
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