HOLLIGER HEINZ

(CD) MACHAUT-TRANSKRIPTIONEN
Swiss composer Heinz Holliger's Machaut-Transkriptionen is comprised of a spacious cycle of pieces written over a ten year period beginning in 2001. An imaginative re-investigation of the work of the great 14th century French composer-poet Guillaume de Machaut, it is scored for four voices and three violas. Note-for-note transcriptions of Machaut give way to Holliger's increasingly creative refractions of the music. As Holliger notes, his in-depth study of Machaut opened up new vistas for his compositional activity and his admiration f...
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(CD) ASCHENMUSIK
Heinz Holliger's lifelong fascination with the music of Robert Schumann finds further expression on this newest release: on Aschenmusik, a new interpretation of the Swiss oboist-composer's "Romancendres" is framed by Schumann's own works. "Romancendres" refers to the lost "Cello Romances" which Clara Schumann burned on Brahms's advice, an act of destruction which outraged Holliger and fuelled the composition of this "music from the ashes" in 2003. It's a portrait of Schumann, packed with quotations, projected like a lifetime passing throug...
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(CD) ALEXANDER LONQUICH
"O Schumann", λέει ο Heinz Holliger, "είναι ο συνθέτης που σχεδόν πάντα βρίσκεται στο επίκεντρο της σκέψης μου". Σε αυτή την ηχογράφηση ο Alexander Lonquich διατυπώνει τις διασυνδέσεις που υπάρχουν ανάμεσα στους ηχητικούς κόσμους της Kreisleriana, με τον σκοτεινό-νυχτερινό ρομαντισμό της, και τον ριζοσπαστικό ρομαντισμό της Παρτίτας του Holliger. Ενάμισης αιώνας χωρίζει αυτές τις δύο συνθέσεις. Ο Lonquich ερμηνεύει την έκδοση του 1838 της Kreisleriana και την Παρτίτα (1999), δύο έργα αφιερωμένα σε δυο μεγάλους πιανίστες, τον Fr?d?ric Chopi...
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(CD) INDUUCHLEN
Strangely beautiful album from Heinz Holliger, with the Swiss composer drawing inspiration from very Swiss sources. The centrepiece of this recording is the vocal cycle "Puneig?" which sets the poetry of Anna Maria Bacher, who writes in an idiom threatened by extinction: the Walser-German language of Pumattertisch, native to the Pomater valley. "Holliger regards a word, like a breath or a heartbeat, as a physical impulse" (Michael Kunkel, in the liner notes). Soprano Sylvia Hopper sings, amid transient sounds intoned by flute, horn, cello ...
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(CD) ROMANCENDRES
A fascinating concept album circling around the fragility of artistic sensibilities in German musical and literary romanticism. Two important pieces by Swiss composer Heinz Holliger (born 1939), both of them inspired by Robert Schumann, are combined with a chamber work by Clara Schumann. They all intersect in the year 1853, when 20-year-old Johannes Brahms first visited the Schumann couple in Dusseldorf. The initial piece, Clara's three wonderfully melodic romances for cello and piano, is followed by Holliger's imaginative and multi-facete...
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