Heinz Holliger: spartiti difficile

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...

La traduzione inglese "fury - dream" (furia - sogno) del titolo originale gaelico rivela la portata di questo breve studio di carattere che esplora tutte le sottigliezze del moderno suonare il corno.

Contrechant è uno studio esteso sui multifonici (e su ulteriori esecuzioni speciali), che - modificato in dettagli specifici - viene elaborato in versioni per clarinetto e per clarinetto basso. Essend...

Again and again, Holliger enhances his virtuoso compositions by reviving historical traditions. In Preludio e Fuga, this return to history refers to the scordatura of the so-called 'Viennese temperame...

Eine musikalische Fingerübung, geschrieben im Zug zwischen Zürich und Basel, und doch im Bezug auf den 'Tinian' aus den 'Hesperischen Gesängen' Hölderlins auf der klangspekulativen Höhe der Kammermusi...

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...

Geschrieben für Isabelle Faust, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Hansheinz Schneeberger und Thomas Zehetmair sind die 4 Hommages teils vergnügliche Encores, teils ausgewachsene Konzertstücke und Etüden in ava...

Like Holliger's standard work Trema (a piece made up of theme, tremolo and breathing), Souvenirs tremaësques too can be played by various instruments of the string family. After the original version f...

Motette für achtstimmigen gemischten Chor mit Solistenquartett: Das anspruchsvolle a-cappella-Werk in acht Teilen komponierte Holliger bereits 1959 für das gleichnamige Mysterienspiel von August Strin...

'Lay VII' is part of the extensive cycle of the Machaut Transcriptions (ED 21070) in which Holliger studies the great 14th-century poet-musician in different levels of arrangement. The original Lay VI...

Heinz Holliger has dealt intensively with Friedrich Hölderlin and Robert Schumann. The third movement of his Partita, a Barcarole, is preceded by the motto: 'We should let ourselves be cradled As if o...

The four demanding songs of different character for countertenor with baritone tessitura and natural horn in F and E flat are based on the collection of poems 'Briensertiitsch Va?a?rsa' by the Swiss w...

In Heinz Holliger's works, the succinct term 'transcriptions' conceals multi-layered variants of the enigmatic source material and the most subtle diversification of sound, using the technical possibi...

Heinz Holliger composed the three-movement work in January 2016 as funeral music for the legendary flutist Aurèle Nicolet who had died shortly before. The pivotal middle movement sons d'or for bass fl...

Texte von Mechthild von Magdeburg und anonyme Texte

This collection contains musical birthday greetings to composers and instrumentalists who are close friends of Heinz Holliger. The very different pieces were created over a period of 15 years for the...