GORDON PARSONS is bowled over by a skilfully stripped down and powerfully relevant production of Hamlet
Nan Shepherd for orchestra
An album of deep thinking, environmentally concerned work is recommended by SIMON DUFF
In which we accompany the Bard into Cymru to meet his musical accomplices, young and old
SUE TURNER is inspired by the example of a librarian’s struggle to confront the book-banning movement
ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes two exhibitions that blur the boundaries between art and community engagement
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews I Am Martin Parr, September Says, The Monkey, and The Gorge
RITA DI SANTO applauds a touching and witty opener that touches a hot topic in Germany: the future of the immigrant population
SIMON PARSONS is discomfited by an unflichingly negative portrait of motherhood and its trials
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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