Heinz Holliger

A musical finger exercise, written in a train between Zurich and Basel and referring to 'Tinian' from Hölderlin's 'Hesperische Gesänge' on the speculative level of Holliger's chamber music.The first v...

Uraufführung: September 1982 Genève (CH) Concours International d'Exécution Musicale 1982

Uraufführung: September 1982 Genève (CH) Concours International d’Exécution Musicale 1982

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.

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. Il breve Trio pour Roland Cavin, c...

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. Il breve Trio pour Roland Cavin, c...

Dalle dolci cantilene ai cinguettii polifonici degli uccelli, Heinz Holliger trasferisce lo stato d'animo dei testi sottostanti in un dialogo strumentale. Un'affascinante aggiunta al repertorio contem...

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...

Here's proof, if you ever needed it, that contemporary music can be humourous. Want to hear Mendelssohn's Wedding March beefed up with Wagner's Tristan? And enjoy listening out for the well-known melo...

Here's proof, if you ever needed it, that contemporary music can be humourous. Want to hear Mendelssohn's Wedding March beefed up with Wagner's Tristan? And enjoy listening out for the well-known melo...

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...

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...