There is a certain type of modern classical music which triggers ASMR-like shivers when you listen to it – the kind of thing which you almost feel emotionally manipulated by when it comes on in a film.
The soaring strings of a Hans Zimmer score will do it, and I only have to listen to two bars of fellow German composer Max Richter’s On the Nature of Daylight for my neck to prickle. Zimmer and Richter are two prongs in a triumvirate of modern composers bringing classical music to the next generation: the third is Ludovico Einaudi, master pianist who has composed scores for films like Nomadland and This is England.
