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The chiaroscuro-technique developed by painters of the Italian renaissance served to intensify contrasts and effects of optical depth. In Klar/Obskur, I tried to transfer the general idea of this tech...

entschlackt [Piece in Two Parts] resulted from an attempt to write music that is clear, precise and concentrated without being superficially 'simple'. The 'purged' or 'cleansed' character of the piece...

One of the most bodacious episodes in the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic tells how Joukahainen challenges the old, wise singer Vainamoinen to a competition, during which Vainamoinen sings him up...

'Landscape With Deserted House' is a piece of a dark and very individual character, almost a 'gothic piece'. The topos of the deserted house comes from the literature of Victorian England, but also po...

The cycle of 27 lithographs on the Apocalypse of St. John created by Max Beckmann in his Dutch exile in 1941 inspired Benjamin Schweitzer to compose 27 musical 'sheets' as well. 'The pictures are fill...

Nausea (lat., seasickness, disgust) - Nenia (greek/lat., folksong, elegy, magical song): Two similar sounding terms, which offer, based on their ambiguity, lots of space to musical connotations. These...

Pour Flute, Clarinette en SiB et Piano

The 'Aachener Zeitung' wrote about the world premiere at the Heimbach power station on 13.06.2008: 'The skilfully and competently mastered palette of tonal colours, stylistic devices and effects corre...

Heinrich Poos´ Ein Stundenbuch is a contribution to the Luther Year 2017. Poos sets relevant passages from the Bible to music, such as Die Seligpreisungen for choir (SSAATTBB), positive organ, violonc...

Carl Fischer introduces this exciting new series of performance pieces designed to help all levels of instrumentalists by making their practice time more productive. This innovative series offers the...

Im Trio des norddeutschen Vertreters des galanten Stils besticht vor allem das empfindsame Largo mit seinen sorgfältig ausgearbeiteten Verzierungen, zu dem das heftige Vivace einen wirkungsvollen Kont...

Trios d'anches - Kammermusik

The four demanding songs of different character for countertenor with baritone tessitura and natural horn in F and E flat are based on the collection of poems 'Briensertiitsch Va?a?rsa' by the Swiss w...

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...