Heinz Holliger

Heinz Holliger composed this short encore piece for the birthday of the famous Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair. Starting from a brief 'Happy Birthday' quotation, it soon turns towards the 'stagger...

Contrechant è un ampio studio di suoni multifonici (e di altre tecniche esecutive particolari), elaborato - con modifiche in alcuni dettagli specifici - nelle versioni per clarinetto e clarinetto bass...

Written as a compulsory piece for this year's international Commande du Concours international de timbales de Lyon, Holliger explores all sound and pitch combinations that can be realized by a player...

This short solo piece originally comes from the orchestral composition Concerto ...per soli con tutti and is suitable both for concerts and competitions or as a subtle encore.

Dalle morbide cantilene ai cinguettii multifonici degli uccelli, Heinz Holliger trasferisce lo stato d'animo dei testi sottostanti in un dialogo strumentale. Un'intrigante aggiunta al repertorio conte...

Heinz Holliger originally composed these 24 duos for his granddaughter Annina.Without a moralizing undertone, Duöli imparts all techniques and sounds of contemporary music and sends the young violinis...

The arrangements of this collection document an increasing distance of the arranger from the original. Ballade IV and Ballade XXVI play with real pitches and the transfer into the weightlessness of na...

In the Mozart Year, Thomas Zehetmair and Ruth Kilius asked Heinz Holliger for a striking encore piece for violin and viola for Mozart's Sinfonia concertante which had often been performed by them unde...

Originally, Heinz Holliger wrote this humorous, yet demanding study not as an independent showpiece or encore, but as a component of his Concerto für Orchester with the meaningful subtitle 'con soli p...

The title combines the words recitare and cantare, and thus this eloquent song embodies a renewed attempt to demonstrate the communicative power of music. The piece was written for Tabea Zimmermann an...

Geschrieben 1981 für die Malerin und Musikerin Rivka Golani, wurde das Werk 1981 im Rahmen von Musique Vivante, Paris, durch Rivka Golani, Viola, uraufgeführt. Eine in sehr langsamem Tempo fortschreit...

Zum 75. Geburtstag (2000) hatte ich Pierre Boulez ein feuillet d'album nur für Solostimme auf das Gedicht monde des grossartigen Dichters Philippe Jaccottet geschickt, der mit Pierre Boulez den gleich...

L'omaggio allegro-ironico e al tempo stesso altamente virtuoso del celebre oboista alla collega e amica Aurèle Nicolet. Un compendio di tecniche esecutive contemporanee sotto forma di suite in 12 part...

Heinz Holliger, la cui Sonata (in)solit(air)e (FTR 175) è da tempo un'opera standard della letteratura flautistica contemporanea, presenta qui un'altra composizione. (é)cri(t) è un virtuoso studio sul...

Das Harfenstück ist im April 1987, 25 Jahre nach meinem bisher einzigen Solostück für Harfe (Sequenzen über Joh. I, 32) entstanden. Während mir früher die nicht vollständige Verfügbarkeit der chromati...

Das Harfenstück ist im April 1987, 25 Jahre nach meinem bisher einzigen Solostück für Harfe (Sequenzen über Joh. I, 32) entstanden. Während mir früher die nicht vollständige Verfügbarkeit der chromati...