Heinz Holliger: spartiti difficile

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...

Heinz Holliger ha sviluppato e plasmato l'oboe del XX secolo come nessun altro. La sua prima sonata per oboe, tuttavia, non è solo un pezzo virtuoso per concorsi e concerti, il "Capriccio" mostra piut...

After several attempts, Heinz Holliger finally managed to successfully set to music David Rokeah's poems which are dedicated to him. Shir Shavur is like a choir book with twelve very different movemen...

In seinem „Herbstblatt“ zeichnet Heinz Holliger die Biografie des Komponisten Gideon Klein nach, der im KZ Auschwitz-Fürstenau ermordet wurde. Als Erinnerungsschatten streut Holliger Zitate aus Werken...

Uraufführung: 1. Oktober 1983 Strasbourg (F) Festival Musica 1983 * Aurèle Nicolet, Flöte

Nella poesia di Nelly Sachs, la farfalla è il simbolo tradizionale della caducità e della speranza nella bellezza dell'aldilà. L'ambientazione traccia lo stato d'animo malinconico e allo stesso tempo...

In this solo piece written by Heinz Holliger for his wife, he notated the dying away of individual tones. Powerfully plucked, stimulated microtonally by harmonics or quivering runs, they ultimately dr...

This collection is more than just a continuation of volume 1 (4 Lieder ohne Worte = AVV 131), pieces from both volumes can be mixed and played in different running order. The intermezzi are in irregul...

'Ri-Tratto, written on 12 October 2011 as a little birthday present for Hansheinz Schneeberger to whom I owe so many wonderful musical experiences: attempt of a portrait in the form of prelude and fug...

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...

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...

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...

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...