This Bitter Earth / On The Nature Of Daylight

A song for troubled times.

Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones, was a blues, R&B and jazz singer. She has been cited as “the most popular black female recording artist of the ’50s”, and is often referred to as “The Queen of the Blues”.

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 his record Sleep — an eight-and-a-half hour concept album based around the neuroscience of sleep— being the most streamed classical record of all time.

The song below is a soulful and elegant mix of Dinah Washington’s classic song “This Bitter Earth” (1960) set to the background of Max Richter’s “On the Nature of Daylight” (2004).

The result is an musical tour de force that touches on the sadness and search for meaning in these dark times.