Heinz Holliger

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...

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...

Written as a compulsory piece for this year's international Commande du Concours international de timbales de Lyon, Holliger explores all sound and pitch combinations that can be realized by a player...

This short solo piece originally comes from the orchestral composition Concerto ...per soli con tutti and is suitable both for concerts and competitions or as a subtle encore.

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...

Heinz Holliger originally composed these 24 duos for his granddaughter Annina.Without a moralizing undertone, Duöli imparts all techniques and sounds of contemporary music and sends the young violinis...

The arrangements of this collection document an increasing distance of the arranger from the original. Ballade IV and Ballade XXVI play with real pitches and the transfer into the weightlessness of na...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Zum 75. Geburtstag (2000) hatte ich Pierre Boulez ein feuillet d'album nur für Solostimme auf das Gedicht monde des grossartigen Dichters Philippe Jaccottet geschickt, der mit Pierre Boulez den gleich...