Originally, Heinz Holliger wrote this humorous, yet demanding study not as an independent showpiece or encore, but as a component of his Concerto für Orchester with the meaningful subtitle 'con soli p...
Vier Chorlieder in 10 Versionen auf vier Gedichte von Kurt Marti in Berner Umgangssprache Chorpartitur - Chor SATB - schwyzerdütsch
Uraufführung: September 1982 Genève (CH) Concours International d'Exécution Musicale 1982
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...
Uraufführung: 1. Oktober 1983 Strasbourg (F) Festival Musica 1983 * Aurèle Nicolet, Flöte
These are enjoyable pieces written by the already legendary Swiss oboist, conductor and composer for children and young people. You may also dance, speak or just smile along with the music; pieces for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The writings of the Swiss pastor and poet Kurt Marti are characterised by a wide-ranging discussion on belief which frequently takes on a political dimension. This also applies to the poems which Hein...
Aus 'Anhänge zu Scardanelli' Chorpartitur - 4 gleiche oder gemischte Stimmen, solistisch oder chorisch - deutsch
Text von Giuseppe Ungaretti Chorpartitur - 4 Stimmen (Countertenor oder Alt, 2 Tenöre, Bass), solistisch oder chorisch - italienisch
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Das kleine Irgendwas is a short humorous and surrealist story written by the six-year-old daughter of Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Heinz Holliger made it into an adorable virtuoso encore piece for violin...
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...
This collection is more than just a continuation of volume 1 (4 Lieder ohne Worte = AVV 131), pieces from both volumes can be mixed and played in different running order. The intermezzi are in irregul...
'Ri-Tratto, written on 12 October 2011 as a little birthday present for Hansheinz Schneeberger to whom I owe so many wonderful musical experiences: attempt of a portrait in the form of prelude and fug...
Heinz Holliger composed this short encore piece for the birthday of the famous Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair. Starting from a brief 'Happy Birthday' quotation, it soon turns towards the 'stagger...
A musical finger exercise, written in a train between Zurich and Basel and referring to 'Tinian' from Hölderlin's 'Hesperische Gesänge' on the speculative level of Holliger's chamber music.The first v...
Uraufführung: September 1982 Genève (CH) Concours International d’Exécution Musicale 1982
