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About Heinz Holliger, Camerata Bern, Ericn Hobarth, violin and conductor
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Heinz Holliger: Machaut-Transkriptionen
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 Holliger has created new, modern and even Avant-Garde pieces rooted in 14th century motifs.Holliger pairs his progressive adaptation of three of de ...
Continue ReadingHeinz Holliger: Johann Sebastian Bach - Concertos and Sinfonias for Oboe - Ich hatte viel Bekummernis
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 composer: Alexander Lonquich Robert Schumann/Heinz Holliger (ECM, 2011); as composer and conductor: Heinz Holliger/Clara Schumann--Romancendres (ECM, 2008). The maestro does step out, from time ...
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