Cat No:
4858784
Release Date: 13 October 2023
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948587841
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
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Description
Austrian composer Thomas Larcher's The Living Mountain features premiere recordings of three strongly contrasting works. The Times has hailed Larcher's music as a world "of haunting landscapes and dreams, stylistically disparate but fused by the composer's astonishing ear and quizzical attitude to traditional forms", a description borne out by the compositions here. The Living Mountain, for soprano and ensemble, draws upon the memoir of the Scottish poet and nature writer Nan Shepherd.
Unerzählt is an intimate song cycle for baritone and piano, deploying texts of German writer W.G. Sebald. And Ouroboros, named for the serpent of eternity, is a powerful piece for cello and chamber orchestra.
Recorded in Munich and Weerberg in 2021 and 2022 and produced by Manfred Eicher, The Living Mountain is the fourth New Series album of Larcher's compositions.
Sarah Aristidou: soprano
Alisa Weilerstein: cello
Luka Juhart: accordion
Aaron Pilsan piano
Munich Chamber Orchestra
Clemens Schuldt: conductor
Andre Schuen: baritone
Daniel Heide: piano -
Tracklisting
- 1. The Living Mountain: Introduzione
- 2. At first, mad to recover the tang of height
- 3. As I reach the highest part of my dark moor
- 4. In September dawns I hardly breath
- 5. Once on a night of such clear silence
- 6. Further up is all snow
- 7. Ourobos: Allegretto
- 8. Allegro infuriato
- 9. Adagio ma non troppo
- 10. Unerzahlt: Plinius sagt
- 11. Die roten Flecken
- 12. Wenn die Blitze herabfuhren
- 13. Gleich einem Hund
- 14. Am 8.Mai 1927
- 15. Mitten im Schlaf
- 16. Venezianisches Wachspraparat
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