You’re probably already familiar with “On the Nature of Daylight.” Composed for the 2004 album The Blue Notebooks, Max Richter’s stirring piece for a small strings ensemble has made its way into the ...

In the final minutes of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s stunning tale of grief and nature, William Shakespeare puts on a play. The very first performance of Hamlet comes as a surprise to his wife Agnes (Jessie ...

The piece itself and Buckley’s performance as Agnes Shakespeare are both epic and raw in their own rights. But at the end, Agnes is in a fury about the use of her now dead son Hamnet’s (Jacobi Jupe) ...

German-born, U.K.-based Max Richter is one of the most successful composers in modern classical music, a gifted post-minimalist whose signature work, “On the Nature of Daylight” from his classic 2004 ...

To some, the use of Max Richter’s best-known song at the end of Hamnet is like a cheat code to get audiences crying. To the composer himself, it’s something else entirely. Photo: Agata ...