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Thomas Larcher
The Living Mountain (ECM)
THOMAS LARCHER is an Austrian composer who grew up in the Tyrol mountain region. His music reflects that intense and majestic geography and the composer is a keen skier and mountaineer.
Larcher studied composition and piano in Vienna and his latest album, his fourth for ECM, contains three works. The first The Living Mountain, composed between 2019-20 scored for soprano Sarah Aristidou, baritone Andre Schuen along with piano, accordion and the Muenchener Kammerorchester conducted by Clemens Schuldt.
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