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Works of Thomas Larcher Featured at Festival Musikdorf Ernen in Switzerland

Jul. 15, 2021

On August 1, pianists Alasdair Beatson and Paolo Giacometti perform the world premiere of Thomas Larcher's arrangement of Bach's motet, Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229 for two pianos at the Kirche St. Georg in Ernen, Switzerland as part of the Festival Musikdorf Ernen. Larcher's new arrangement was commissioned by Eleanor Eisenmenger in memory of Hansjorg Czinglar and Wigmore Hall. The premiere of an additional new work by Larcher will take place at the festival on August 7. On August 11, Thomas Larcher's Mumien will be performed on a concert that also features Paul Hindemith's Octet for winds and strings and Thomas Adès's string quartet, Arcadiana. Mumien is described by Reinhard Schulz as:

"A heartfelt love of sound, of small form becomes perceptible. Mysterious landscapes emerge: full of manic concentration, obsession even in submerging into a note, a sound, a small figure, full of turns towards ethereally serene regions with very simple harmonic structures emerging like islands in the rough sea and opening a view onto the sky. Often, the titles already point to the mental landscapes that are turned into sound."

In other news, the Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg, under the baton of Leo McFall, perform the Austrian premiere of Thomas Larcher's Symphony No. 3 on August 22 for the Bregenz Festival. The composer describes his inspiration behind the work:

"The title refers to a climbing route by Tom Ballard set in a cave from which you can look out into the Dolomites at the sky and mountains in all their incomprehensible beauty. Ballard died in 2019 attempting a climb in winter. To name a route 'A Line above the Sky' speaks of a dream to live a life in the light, embracing the mountains. I have long been close to the mountains and through them have been inspired, enlightened and consoled. But I have always failed to answer how one can put oneself at such extreme risk. This leads to the question of what life is, and how much it’s worth to a person (and what one’s life might be worth to others). This symphony is a testimony to the intensity of life in the first movement, and a 'Trauermusik' in the second."


(Anna Magdalena Kokits, piano and Alexander Gebert, violoncello perform Thomas Larcher's Mumien)

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J.S. Bach, arr. Thomas Larcher
Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229
for two pianos

Thomas Larcher
Mumien (2001)
for cello and piano
15'

Symphony No. 3 "A Line Above the Sky" (2018-2019)
for orchestra
3(2.pic, 3.bfl).3(3.eh).3(2.Ebcl, 3.bcl & cbcl).3(3.cbn)-4.3.3.1-timp(tubular bells & small side instruments).3perc-hp.pno(cel).acc.cym-str(14.12.10.8.6(db4-6 5-string))
30'

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