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File under: ContemporaryModern Chamber Music
*2025 stock* Austrian composer Thomas Larcher’s new album 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.
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File under: ContemporaryModern Chamber Music
Cat. number: ECM 2723, 485 8784, ECM NEW SERIES 2723, ECM New Series 2723
Year: 2023
Notes:
The Living Mountain
for soprano and ensemble (2019–20)
Ouroboros
for violoncello and chamber orchestra (2015)
Unerzählt
for baritone and piano (2019–20)
The Living Mountain
Texts selected from "The Living Mountain" by Nan Shepherd
© Nan Shepherd, 1977. Reproduced by permission of Canongate Books Ltd.
Der lebende Berg
Texte aus: Nan Shepherd, Der lebende Berg. Eine Huldigung der Cairngorms
Aus dem Englischen von Judith Zander © 2017 MSB Matthes & Seitz Berlin
Unerzählt
Texte aus: W.G. Sebald, Unerzählt, © Carl Hanser Verlag München/Wien 2003
The Living Mountain / Ouroboros
recorded June 2021
Bavaria Musikstudios, München
Unerzählt
recorded May 2022
Gemeindezentrum Weerberg
An ECM Production
℗ © 2023 ECM Records GmbH, München (on O-card back; on tray card)
℗ © 2023 ECM Records GmbH (in booklet)
℗ 2023 ECM Records GmbH (on disc)
Printed in Germany
