Georg Trakl, Samuel Beckett and, above all, Friedrich Hölderlin: the Scardanelli cycle is based on poems dating from Hölderlin’s final years of mental instability. As an oboist Holliger has had many works composed for him by, among others, Berio, Henze, Lutosławski and Stockhausen. Recommended Recording: Scardanelli-Zyklus, Aurèle Nicolet, London Voices, Ensemble ...
the Triumph of Filial Love’), in 2003. Recommended Recording: Hans Werner Henze: the Complete Deutsche Grammophon Recordings, various artists (Deutsche Grammophon) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Heinz Holliger | Contemporary | Classical ...
avant-garde generation, not only its composers – Boulez, Stockhausen, Nono, Pousseur, Ligeti and Kagel – but also its virtuoso performers, including the oboist Heinz Holliger (b. 1939), also a composer, the cellist Siegfried Palm (1927–2005) and the piano duo of Alfons (1932–2010) and Aloys (b. 1931) Kontarsky. Guests from the US included Edgard Varèse ...
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