Big Take

Max Richter is one of the most successful classical composers alive. His catalog has had more than 4 billion streams and his works range from an eight-hour album based on the science of sleep to the Oscar-nominated score for the film Hamnet.
Richter’s work often responds to political upheavals and current events. His new album, ‘While The Flood Rages’, derives from his score for a ballet inspired by Margaret Atwood‘s MaddAddam trilogy of books.
In this conversation with Mishal Husain, he discusses his influences, his creative process and how music is his refuge from the world.
This episode features the tracks:
‘On The Nature of Daylight’, by Max Richter, from the album ‘The Blue Notebooks’. Courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon.
‘While The Flood Rages’, by Max Richter, from the album While The Flood Rages. Courtesy of Decca Records, part of Universal Music Group.
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Wall Street’s brutal, $3.7 trillion rout cascaded into Asian markets, putting chipmakers and tech companies in its crosshairs.
Host K. Oanh Ha sat down with Bloomberg Opinion Columnist Shuli Ren to look at what comes next for AI – and consider whether this is simply a correction or a crack in the AI bubble.
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Host: K. Oanh Ha and David Gura; Guest: Shuli Ren; Produced by Naomi Ng and David Fox; Edited by Crispina Robert and Nicole Beemsterboer; Engineering by Sean Carter.
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The Blue Wave might have been a rebuke of Trump and his economy, but Democrats have limited options to tackle affordability without him.
On today’s Big Take podcast, PIMCO’s Head of Public Policy Libby Cantrill joins host Sarah Holder to discuss how the economic issues Democrats campaigned on could translate into policy and the compromises and clashes that may lie ahead.
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Host: Sarah Holder; Guest: Libby Cantrill; Produced by Julia Press and David Fox; Edited by Naomi Shavin; Engineering by Emma Munger.
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The blue wave that swept across US midterms buoyed Senate and House Democrats — as well as big tech shares and French bonds. On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg Opinion Executive Editor Robert Burgess and reporter Matthew Griffin, who covers the intersection of politics and stocks, join host Sarah Holder to sort out the day’s market winners (the Fed) and losers (Elon Musk’s companies).
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Host: Sarah Holder; Guests: Robert Burgess and Matthew Griffin; Produced by David Fox and Julia Press; Edited by Jeff Grocott and Patrick Hirsch; Engineering by Alex Suguira.
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The results are in: In a US midterm election seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump, a blue wave swept Congress. Democrats will control both the House and Senate for the last two years of Trump’s term.
On today’s Big Take podcast, host Sarah Holder, Bloomberg White House reporter Josh Wingrove and Congress editor Megan Scully dig into how election night played out in the US, how markets are reacting and what clashes to expect between President Trump and Democrats in Congress.
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Host: Sarah Holder; Guests: Josh Wingrove and Megan Scully; Produced by Naomi Shavin and David Fox; Edited by Nicole Beemsterboer and Tracey Samuelson; Engineering by Sean Carter.
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