Contemporary Music, Monday August 18 19:00 CET.
In this programme we’ll be featuring Heinz Holliger’s monumental Scardanelli-Zyklus. This grand, experimental work, on which Holliger worked from 1975 to 1991, is a highlight in his oeuvre.
Holliger was born in Switzerland and is internationally renowned as an oboist. However, as a composer, he receives less attention than he deserves. Therefore, Contemporary Music focuses on his Scardanelli-Zyklus, based on the hallucinatory poems of the 19th-century German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, written under the pseudonym “Scardanelli”. In his music, Holliger interweaves choir, orchestra, solo flute, and tape into a tranquil and timeless soundscape, in which the seasons are a recurring theme.
Listen to highlights from the Scardanelli-Zyklus, performed by Ensemble Modern and London Voices, conducted by Terry Edwards.
Compiled by: Dennis Bajram
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Holligers Scardanelli-Zyklus, Bijdetijds, 18 augustus (19:00-20:00u)
