Sarah Aristidou – Thomas Larcher: The Living Mountain (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sarah Aristidou – Thomas Larcher: The Living Mountain (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:51 minutes | 1012 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM New Series

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.

Tracklist:
1-01. Sarah Aristidou – The Living Mountain: I. Introduzione (00:29)
1-02. Sarah Aristidou – The Living Mountain: II. At first, mad to recover the tang of height (02:23)
1-03. Sarah Aristidou – The Living Mountain: III. As I reach the highest part of my dark moor (02:16)
1-04. Sarah Aristidou – The Living Mountain: IV. In September dawns I hardly breathe (03:00)
1-05. Sarah Aristidou – The Living Mountain: V. Once on a night of such clear silence (04:00)
1-06. Sarah Aristidou – The Living Mountain: VI. Further up is all snow (02:42)
1-07. Alisa Weilerstein – Ouroboros: I. Allegretto (09:25)
1-08. Alisa Weilerstein – Ouroboros: II. Allegro infuriato (02:50)
1-09. Alisa Weilerstein – Ouroboros: III. Adagio ma non troppo (06:27)
1-10. Andrè Schuen – Unerzählt: I. Plinius sagt (01:50)
1-11. Andrè Schuen – Unerzählt: II. Die roten Flecken (02:31)
1-12. Andrè Schuen – Unerzählt: III. Wenn die Blitze herabfuhren (02:26)
1-13. Andrè Schuen – Unerzählt: IV. Gleich einem Hund (01:05)
1-14. Andrè Schuen – Unerzählt: V. Am 8. Mai 1927 (02:57)
1-15. Andrè Schuen – Unerzählt: VI. Mitten im Schlaf (01:13)
1-16. Andrè Schuen – Unerzählt: VII. Venezianisches Wachspräparat (01:01)
1-17. Andrè Schuen – Unerzählt: VIII. Es heißt daß Napoleon (02:11)
1-18. Andrè Schuen – Unerzählt: IX. Aus dem Vorderschiff des Gehirns (01:28)
1-19. Andrè Schuen – Unerzählt: X. Blaues Gras (00:53)
1-20. Andrè Schuen – Unerzählt: XI. Zuletzt werden bloß soviel überbleiben (03:52)
1-21. Andrè Schuen – Unerzählt: XII. So glitt ich lautlos (01:10)
1-22. Andrè Schuen – Unerzählt: XIII. So wird wenn der Sehnerv zerreißt (01:34)

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