Heinz Holliger

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...

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 gently ironic and teasing work is also an extremely virtuosic hommage to his colleague and friend Aurèle Nicolet by the famous oboist Holliger. A compendium of contemporary avant-garde playing te...

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 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...

Heinz Holliger, whose Sonate (in)solit(air)e (FTR 175) has been a standard work of contemporary flute literature for a long time, now presents two further compositions, with (é)cri(t) acting as a virt...

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...

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 English translation fury - dream of the Gaelic original title shows the spectrum of this short character study which explores all the subtleties of modern horn playing.

Contrechant is an extensive study on multiphonics (and other special sounds) which - with modifications in specific details - has been elaborated in versions for clarinet and bass clarinet. As an extr...

Again and again, Holliger enhances his virtuoso compositions by reviving historical traditions. In Preludio e Fuga, this return to history refers to the scordatura of the so-called 'Viennese temperame...

Eine musikalische Fingerübung, geschrieben im Zug zwischen Zürich und Basel, und doch im Bezug auf den 'Tinian' aus den 'Hesperischen Gesängen' Hölderlins auf der klangspekulativen Höhe der Kammermusi...

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...

Geschrieben für Isabelle Faust, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Hansheinz Schneeberger und Thomas Zehetmair sind die 4 Hommages teils vergnügliche Encores, teils ausgewachsene Konzertstücke und Etüden in ava...

Like Holliger's standard work Trema (a piece made up of theme, tremolo and breathing), Souvenirs tremaësques too can be played by various instruments of the string family. After the original version f...

Heinz Holliger composed the three short pieces of 2014 for the violinist Isabelle Faust. For the dedicatee, they are 'real gems which, in a very intimate way, tell about the composer's soul, about his...

Heinz Holliger composed the three short pieces of 2014 for the violinist Isabelle Faust. For the dedicatee, they are 'real gems which, in a very intimate way, tell about the composer's soul, about his...

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...