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Heinz Holliger: Violinkonzert

Thomas Zehetmair

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Format: CD

Cat No: 4761941

Release Date:  19 December 2008

Label:  ECM Records

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  028947619413

Genres:  Classical  

Composer/Series:  Heinz Holliger

  • Description

    Heinz Holliger’s Violin Concerto, subtitled “Hommage à Louis Soutter”, is a musical portrait of the innovative Swiss painter who began his artistic career as a violinist, studying with the great Eugène Ysaÿe . Arguing that his painterly activity was an extension of his playing, Holliger “translates” Soutter’s agitated brushstrokes into pitches. Soutter’s troubled relationship to Ysaÿe is one of the concerto’s conceptual themes, as is the militant pacifism that found expression in his canvasses. In all, a fascinating, highly-detailed work, played with fiery intensity by Thomas Zehetmair, whose account of Ysaÿe’s third sonata – astonishing in its own right - becomes here a highly effective ‘foreword’ to the Holliger composition, laying bare one of its inspirational sources.