Heinz Holliger

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...

In 1853 Robert Schumann composed five piano-accompanied cello romances. The works were never published though as Clara Schumann destroyed the unpublished manuscript in 1893, 40 years after they were w...

In 1853 Robert Schumann composed five piano-accompanied cello romances. The works were never published though as Clara Schumann destroyed the unpublished manuscript in 1893, 40 years after they were w...

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...

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...

Heinz Holliger, more than any other oboist, has been a unique driving force in the development of 20th-century oboe playing. This early sonata for oboe is nevertheless more than just a tour de force a...

For his 80th birthday Heinz Holliger presents the oboe world with five precious miniatures. Con slancio, which is lyrical and melodic for the most part, takes the performer to the most virtuoso playin...

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...

Heinz Holliger composed the three short pieces of 2014 for the violinist Isabelle Faust. For the dedicatee, they are 'real gems which, in a very intimate way, tell about the composer's soul, about his...

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

Wörtlich übersetzt ist das Libretto ein 'kleines Buch', ein 'Büchlein'. Doch nicht irgendein Büchlein. Seit es Opern gibt, gibt es die Textbücher dazu. Oft erzählen die Universalsprache Musik und der...

Bei der Arbeit am 'Siebengesang' setzte ich mir zum Ziele, die vielschichtigen Wechselwirkungen zwischen einem Individuum (dem Solisten) und seiner Umwelt (dem Orchester) aufzuzeigen und daraus formge...