Poems, 12 Pieces for Pianists and Other Children (2009)

“… What’s not in fashion, alas, is new music: permutations vary, but most recitals reshuffle the same old pack of cards. So it was a pleasure to get Thomas Larcher’s ‘12 poems’, this being a set of miniatures written for children to play, but full of the quirky originality which is this Tyrolean composer’s hallmark. With titles like ‘Frida falls asleep’ and ‘When I lost my funny green dog’, one might have expected echoes of Schumann’s ‘Kinderszenen’, but Larcher’s dozen are much closer to the pianistic games of Gyorgy Kurtag, and Vogt drew out their tongue-in-cheek charm …”

Michael Church, The Independent, May 17 2012