Zwiegespräche: Holliger & Kurtág
Heinz Holliger (oboe/cor anglais/piano), Marie-Lise Schüpbach (cor anglais/oboe), Ernesto Molinari (bass clarinet/ contrabass clarinet), Sarah Wegener (soprano), Philippe Jaccottet (speaker)
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Contemporary Music
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist (Holliger)
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Contemporary
A lot of concentration is required to take in this programme of spartan, potent oboe works by Holliger and Kurtág. But there are real musical rewards, and it’s beautifully produced.
Zwiegespräche: Holliger & Kurtág
Heinz Holliger (oboe/cor anglais/piano), Marie-Lise Schüpbach (cor anglais/oboe), Ernesto Molinari (bass clarinet/ contrabass clarinet), Sarah Wegener (soprano), Philippe Jaccottet (speaker)
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Contemporary Music
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist (Holliger)
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Contemporary
A lot of concentration is required to take in this programme of spartan, potent oboe works by Holliger and Kurtág. But there are real musical rewards, and it’s beautifully produced.
About
Released to mark Heinz Holliger’s 80th birthday (on 21 May), this recording Zwiegespräche – “Dialogues” – is the perfect embodiment of his dual artistry as performer and composer.
Zwiegespräche begins with the intensely moving sound of Heinz Holliger’s oboe calling out into the wild, in a piece written for him by his longstanding friend György Kurtág. Then comes a response composed by him, played on cor anglais by his pupil Marie-Lise Schüpbach. From here the conversation develops, of two composers who, from their solitary positions, strive to makecontact with one another – and with us. The many pieces are, as is typical for both composers, short. Six and a half minutes here is an epic, and many of the messages are over in under a minute. Such dimensions invite us to listen closely, to every turning nuance, and our attention is rewarded, by music-making that is at once emphatic and fine-grained.
Contents and tracklist
- Heinz Holliger (oboe)
- Recorded: 2018-06-04
- Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich
- Marie-Lise Schüpbach (cor anglais)
- Recorded: 2018-06-04
- Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich
- Heinz Holliger (piano)
- Recorded: 2018-06-04
- Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich
- Sarah Wegener (soprano), Ernesto Molinari (bass clarinet), Marie-Lise Schüpbach (cor anglais), Heinz Holliger (oboe)
- Recorded: 2018-06-04
- Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich
- Sarah Wegener (soprano), Heinz Holliger (cor anglais)
- Recorded: 2018-06-04
- Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich
- Philippe Jaccottet (speaker)
- Recorded: 2018-06-04
- Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich
- Heinz Holliger (oboe), Marie-Lise Schüpbach (cor anglais)
- Recorded: 2018-06-04
- Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich
- Philippe Jaccottet (speaker)
- Recorded: 2018-06-04
- Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich
- Heinz Holliger (oboe), Marie-Lise Schüpbach (cor anglais)
- Recorded: 2018-06-04
- Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich
- Philippe Jaccottet (speaker)
- Recorded: 2018-06-04
- Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich
- Heinz Holliger (oboe), Marie-Lise Schüpbach (oboe)
- Recorded: 2018-06-04
- Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich
- Philippe Jaccottet (speaker)
- Recorded: 2018-06-04
- Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich
- Heinz Holliger (oboe), Marie-Lise Schüpbach (cor anglais)
- Recorded: 2018-06-04
- Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich
- Philippe Jaccottet (speaker)
- Recorded: 2018-06-04
- Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich
- Heinz Holliger (cor anglais), Marie-Lise Schüpbach (cor anglais)
- Recorded: 2018-06-04
- Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineSeptember 2019Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards2019Nominee - Contemporary Music
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year2019
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Opus Klassik Awards2020Nominee - Instrumentalist (Holliger)
October 2019
A lot of concentration is required to take in this programme of spartan, potent oboe works by Holliger and Kurtág. But there are real musical rewards, and it’s beautifully produced.
September 2019
This disc celebrates the 80th birthday of Heinz Holliger, and although it explores his interpretative gifts as a performer rather than his full range as a composer, its focus on the dialogues between his own music and that of György Kurtág makes for a beautifully rounded double portrait.
20th June 2019
In every piece the music is pared back to its barest essentials, so that a single pitch or interval acquires huge expressive importance. It all makes a marvellously austere birthday tribute, with Holliger at the centre of things as a performer too; it was recorded last year and his oboe playing has lost none of its authority and peerless musicianship.
