Schumann & Holliger: Aschenmusik

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Holliger's language is subtly infused with the spirit of Schumann throughout...a must-have disc for all Schumann lovers. — Gramophone Magazine, November 2014 More…

Release Date: 9th Jun 2014
Catalogue No: 4810957
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 73 minutes

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Schumann: Sechs Stücke in kanonischer Form, Op. 56

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Heinz Holliger (oboe d amore), Anita Leuzinger (cello), Anton Kernjak (piano)
Recorded: 2013-11
Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich

1. Nicht zu schnell

Track length2:02

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2. Mit innigem Ausdruck

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3. Andantino

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4. Innig

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5. Nicht zu schnell

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6. Adagio

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Schumann: Drei Romanzen für Oboe und Klavier, Op. 94

Work length12:32

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Heinz Holliger (oboe), Anton Kernjak (piano)
Recorded: 2013-11
Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich

1. Nicht schnell

Track length3:19

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2. Einfach, innig

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3. Nicht schnell

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Holliger: Romancendres für Violoncello und Klavier

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Anita Leuzinger (cello), Anton Kernjak (piano)
Recorded: 2013-11
Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich

Kondukt I (C.S. - R.S.)

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Aurora (Nachts)

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R(asche)S Flügelschlagen

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Der Würgengel der Gegenwart

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"heiter bewegt" ("Es wehet ein Schatten darin")

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Kondukt II ("Der bleiche Engel der Zukunft")

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Schumann: FAE Sonate in a-Moll WoO2

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Heinz Holliger (oboe d amore), Anton Kernjak (piano)
Recorded: 2013-11
Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich

2. Intermezzo. Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell

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Schumann: Sonate Nr. 1 für Pianoforte und Violine in a-Moll, Op. 105

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Anita Leuzinger (cello), Anton Kernjak (piano)
Recorded: 2013-11
Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich

1. Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck

Track length8:17

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2. Allegretto

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3. Lebhaft

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Heinz Holliger’s lifelong fascination with the music of Robert Schumann finds further expression on the album Aschenmusik, issued to celebrate the Swiss oboist-composer’s 75th birthday (21 May 2014). A new interpretation of Holliger’s Romancendres is framed by Schumann’s own works. Strong performances by Holliger himself and by Anita Leuzinger, solo cellist from the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, and by Austrian pianist Anton Kernjak make this recording another important addition to Heinz Holliger’s ECM discography.

The title Romancendres refers to the lost “Cello Romances” of 1853 which Clara Schumann burned on Brahms’s advice, an act of destruction which outraged Holliger and fuelled the composition of this “music from the ashes” in 2003. However it is not an attempt to reconstruct a lost Schumann composition, but a portrait of Schumann, packed with quotations, projected like a lifetime passing through the mind of a dying man.

Romancendres is prefaced by Schumann’s “Romances” for oboe and piano, masterpieces which have been part of Holliger’s repertoire for 60 years, and by the rarely-played “Studies in Canon Form” which find Holliger on the oboe d’amore. The album closes with Schumann’s Sonata No 1 for violin and piano, with cello substituting for violin. Holliger notes: “Schumann himself thought it could also be played on a cello. I find it grandiose with this combination of instruments.”

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November 2014

Holliger's language is subtly infused with the spirit of Schumann throughout...a must-have disc for all Schumann lovers.

15th June 2014

This absorbing set embraces Holliger’s Romancendres, which seeks to recapture the late Cello Romances by Schumann that his widow, Clara, and Brahms destroyed. Hints in letters are all Holliger has to go on, but he produces this four-movement “cinder music”, beautifully played.

5th June 2014

subtle and meticulously shaded

Classical Music

A richly rewarding programme...[Romancentres] is a bold and ultimately moving piece that repays repeated hearings when the performance is as fine as it is here. Holliger the soloist is in fine form in works by Schumann.

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