Heinz Holliger

Uraufführung: 1. Oktober 1983 Strasbourg (F) Festival Musica 1983 * Aurèle Nicolet, Flöte

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...

After several attempts, Heinz Holliger finally managed to successfully set to music David Rokeah's poems which are dedicated to him. Shir Shavur is like a choir book with twelve very different movemen...

The piano gods of my youth were Dinu Lipatti and Clara Haskil, both mysterious, enchanting. While I only knew Lipatti from his records, I was able to see Clara Haskil live in concert twice, in Burgdor...

Written in 1981 for the painter and musician Rivka Golani, the work was premiered in 1981 as part of Musique Vivante, Paris, by Rivka Golani, viola. A harmony progressing at a very slow tempo is cover...

In seinem „Herbstblatt“ zeichnet Heinz Holliger die Biografie des Komponisten Gideon Klein nach, der im KZ Auschwitz-Fürstenau ermordet wurde. Als Erinnerungsschatten streut Holliger Zitate aus Werken...

Uraufführung: 1. Oktober 1983 Strasbourg (F) Festival Musica 1983 * Aurèle Nicolet, Flöte

For decades the legendary harpist Ursula Holliger performed these cadenzas for Mozart's popular flute-harp concerto with renowned flautists such as Peter-Lukas Graf and Aurèle Nicolet. They are now av...

For decades the legendary harpist Ursula Holliger performed these cadenzas for Mozart's popular flute-harp concerto with renowned flautists such as Peter-Lukas Graf and Aurèle Nicolet. They are now av...

In Nelly Sachs' poem, the butterfly stands as a traditional symbol of transience and hope for the beauty of the afterlife. The setting traces the melancholic and yet light mood in finely chiselled mel...

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...