Heinz Holliger: Partituras dificil

Here's proof, if you ever needed it, that contemporary music can be humourous. Want to hear Mendelssohn's Wedding March beefed up with Wagner's Tristan? And enjoy listening out for the well-known melo...

This already legendary oboist here presents three demanding yet humorously enigmatic pieces for the deeper reed instrument of the same family. The first is not the only piece to require careful calcul...

This recorder solo, with optional tubular bells accompaniment, is headed by a line from an ode by Klopstock, also quoted in his diary by the poet Hölderlin: 'Death, our saviour, ... softly approaches...

This piece combines the tradition in the harp repertoire of harking back to Baroque elements of form and style with selective use of sophisticated contemporary techniques. The most notable of these ar...

The first version of Mobile for oboe and harp was composed by Heinz Holliger as early as 1962 while studying with Pierre Boulez. The piece is based on the tone row used by Boulez in his Piano Sonata N...

In his "Herbstblatt" Heinz Holliger traces the biography of the composer Gideon Klein, who was murdered in the Auschwitz-Fürstenau concentration camp. As a shadow of memory, Holliger intersperses quot...

In nicht Ichts - nicht Nichts, Heinz Holliger has set the words of ten selected mystic epigrammes by the seventeenth century Baroque poet Angelus Silesius. The two-line sayings in rhyming Alexandrines...

Der bereits legendäre Chordirigent der Avantgarde wird 80 Jahre alt: Clytus Gottwald, Gründer und langjähriger Dirigent der Schola Cantorum Stuttgart. Ebenso bekannt wie gern gesungen sind inzwischen...

The subtitle of this work dedicated to Christian Gerhaher, '23 sentences by Nikolaus Lenau', should be taken literally: some of the texts in Heinz Holliger's setting consist of only a few words. With...

I was in the middle of a recording project featuring Franz Schubert's complete symphonies and other orchestral works, when I received a request from Anna Lucia Richter asking if I could compose a comp...

Contrechant is an extensive study of multiphonic sounds (and other special playing techniques), which - with modifications in some specific details - has been elaborated into versions for clarinet and...

In the Mozart Year, Thomas Zehetmair and Ruth Kilius asked Heinz Holliger for a striking encore piece for violin and viola for Mozart's Sinfonia concertante which had often been performed by them unde...