℗ 2024 Universal Music Operations Limited
| Released | September 20, 2024 |
| Duration | 1h 03m 19s |
| Record Label | Mercury Classics |
| Genre | Classical (Classical Crossover) |
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1.1
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Carve the Runes Then Be Content With Silence (Full Version)
Erland Cooper; Erland Cooper |
31:41 | |||
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Carve the Runes, Mvt. I
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1.2
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I. “bouncing and bending in the harbour”
Erland Cooper; Erland Cooper |
0:59 | |||
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1.3
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II. “through that yellow spindrift”
Erland Cooper; Erland Cooper |
2:17 | |||
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1.4
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III. “you must dance in a beautiful coat”
Erland Cooper; Erland Cooper |
4:54 | |||
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Then Be Content, Mvt. 2
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1.5
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I. “song of the five seas”
Erland Cooper; Erland Cooper |
4:10 | |||
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1.6
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II. “driftweed scored the strings”
Erland Cooper; Erland Cooper |
5:37 | |||
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1.7
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III. “walking through heather and peat”
Erland Cooper; Erland Cooper |
4:30 | |||
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With Silence, Mvt. 3
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1.8
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I. “con la memoria”
Erland Cooper; Erland Cooper |
2:00 | |||
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1.9
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II. “wow and flutter of unearthed magnetic tape”
Erland Cooper; Erland Cooper |
2:13 | |||
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1.10
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III. “our winter jar”
Erland Cooper; Erland Cooper |
0:33 | |||
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1.11
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IV. “sunwards turn”
Erland Cooper; Erland Cooper |
4:25 | |||
After three years in waiting, Composer Erland Cooper has released his new piece Carve the Runes Then Be Content With Silence. Erland Cooper’s three-movement composition for solo violin and string ensemble, inspired by natural landscapes and ruminating on time, hope, community and patience, marks the centenary of the birth of celebrated Orkney poet George Mackay Brown. The only recording of "Carve the Runes Then Be Content With Silence" – on ¼ inch magnetic tape – was planted in Orkney, Sctoland in 2021 to grow and be nurtured or “recomposed” by the earth, before being exhumed and released in three years’ time.
"Carve the Runes Then Be Content With Silence" was recorded at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with violin soloist Daniel Pioro (who most recently performed with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra) and Studio Collective, a specially selected RCS chamber string group. The composition was then mixed by Marta Salogni (Björk, Anna Meredith, Daniel Avery) and mastered onto ¼ inch magnetic tape before the digital files were permanently deleted. Erland Cooper then drove over 700 miles from London with the only copy of the tape which he planted, along with a violin and a score, in a ceremony on the Orkney Islands. Now, that recording has been unearthed for listeners.
“The material on the tape may erode naturally, disintegrate and create drops of silence or the peaty soil may preserve it perfectly well. It may or may not get better with age. I may or may not fall out of favour with my composition. Any alterations to the sound and music [when it comes out of the earth] will be reincorporated into the pages of a new score and live performance, as orchestral articulations.”
- Erland Cooper
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Mercury Classics Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -4.25 -24.52 to -0.27 | -23.38 -46.65 to -16.22 | -19.85 -39.20 to -13.10 | 10 9 to 15 | |
| 1 | Carve the Runes Then Be Content With Silence (Full Version) | -0.27 | -19.15 | -15.3 | 10 |
| 2 | I. “bouncing and bending in the harbour” | -10.37 | -26.90 | -24.4 | 9 |
| 3 | II. “through that yellow spindrift” | -0.68 | -17.12 | -14.6 | 9 |
| 4 | III. “you must dance in a beautiful coat” | -0.29 | -16.22 | -13.5 | 9 |
| 5 | I. “song of the five seas” | -1.12 | -20.84 | -18.7 | 10 |
| 6 | II. “driftweed scored the strings” | -2.80 | -28.85 | -25.3 | 15 |
| 7 | III. “walking through heather and peat” | -0.57 | -16.90 | -13.1 | 9 |
| 8 | I. “con la memoria” | -24.52 | -46.65 | -39.2 | 11 |
| 9 | II. “wow and flutter of unearthed magnetic tape” | -2.11 | -23.04 | -19.7 | 10 |
| 10 | III. “our winter jar” | -3.29 | -23.73 | -20.7 | 13 |
| 11 | IV. “sunwards turn” | -0.77 | -17.79 | -13.9 | 9 |