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Heinz Holliger: Machaut-Transkriptionen

Read "Machaut-Transkriptionen" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Over a period spanning eight years (2001-2009) Swiss oboist and composer Heinz Holliger has radically reinterpreted the works of medieval composer and poet Guillaume de Machaut. Holliger calls the resulting disc, Machaut-Transkriptionen “transcriptions" but in fact it is much more than that. By changing rhythmic structures here, time signatures there, even improvising on de Machaut's themes ...

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Heinz Holliger: Johann Sebastian Bach - Concertos and Sinfonias for Oboe - Ich hatte viel Bekummernis

Read "Johann Sebastian Bach - Concertos and Sinfonias for Oboe - Ich hatte viel Bekummernis" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Heinz Holliger is to the oboe what James Galway and Jean Pierre Rampal are to the flute, or Dennis Brain to the horn: the standard by which all else is compared. He is also an accomplished composer and conductor in his own right, two roles in which he has most often worked while recording for ECM--as ...


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