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Sopran und Klavier

Sopran und Klavier

Commenting on this cycle of 35 songs, the composer writes: 'The contradictions in human nature delighted him; he loved the unevenness of life and all its manifestations. While nineteenth Century music...

Tenor und Klavier

Tenor und Klavier

This song cycle (duration nearly an hour) was written for Ian Bostridge. The subtle Oriental influence behind the profound poetry is mirrored in the scintillating tonal colours of the multi-faceted hi...

Comparable to Alban Berg whose 'Seven Early Songs' show through in the music, Heinz Holliger has picked out some truly rapturous youth songs, set them up in easy arrangements and scored them for orche...

Comparable to Alban Berg whose 'Seven Early Songs' show through in the music, Heinz Holliger has picked out some truly rapturous youth songs, set them up in easy arrangements and scored them for orche...

Out of childish poems about the seasons develop layers of gradually increasing musical complexity: the simple folk song evolves into a highly expressive art song, ending in a clever inverted cancrizan...

Out of childish poems about the seasons develop layers of gradually increasing musical complexity: the simple folk song evolves into a highly expressive art song, ending in a clever inverted cancrizan...

Sopran und Klavier

Sopran und Klavier

Kafka's œuvre is interspersed with moments of utter anxiety. Moments in which, induced by adrenalin, the blood pressure rises. Blood vessels which seem to constrict, pump enormous quantities of blood...

Kafka's œuvre is interspersed with moments of utter anxiety. Moments in which, induced by adrenalin, the blood pressure rises. Blood vessels which seem to constrict, pump enormous quantities of blood...