Heinz Holliger

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...

Texte von Mechthild von Magdeburg und anonyme Texte

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...

Gemischter Chor-SATB - Sammelband; Singpartitur

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...

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...

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 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...

'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...