“I hope in this new work, a listener will be rewarded for their patience from a cold, glacial ascent by a slowly thawing, burning hope.”
An album by the pianist Erland Cooper, made with the Scottish Ensemble with a contribution from the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.
This has a number of different versions on Spotify and can also be ordered on physical media.
There is a piano and an instrumental version as well.
Hailed for work that celebrates themes of nature, people, place and time, Cooper continues to merge music with evocative storytelling and conceptional art in Folded Landscapes. The album, recorded in sub-zero temperatures that slowly increased across its seven movements and with an audio master sun-burnt in the 40.9C heat of the hottest day in UK history, figuratively and literally thaws over the duration of a pertinent new album.
Movement 5 in particular is about the impact of climate change on the landscape and features some spoken word contributions from Simon Armitage and also a section of Greta Thunberg's speech at a COP conference.
There were 4 performances at the Barbican involving melting ice and with contributions from Simon Armitage.
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