Heinz Holliger: Partituras dificil

Contrechant is an extensive study on multiphonics (and other special sounds) which - with modifications in specific details - has been elaborated in versions for clarinet and bass clarinet. As an extr...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

En el poema de Nelly Sachs, la mariposa se erige en símbolo tradicional de la fugacidad y la esperanza en la belleza del más allá. La ambientación traza el estado de ánimo melancólico y a la vez liger...

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...

From soft cantilenas to bird-like multiphonic twittering, Heinz Holliger transfers the mood of the underlying texts into an instrumental dialogue. An intriguing addition to the contemporary oboe reper...