York Höller: Piano Works

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Release Date: 27th May 2016
Catalogue No: EDA41
Label: EDA
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

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Höller, Y: Five pieces

Work length9:30

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Kristi Becker

I. Introduzione / Sostenuto

Track length2:06

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II. Sehr zart, poco rubato

Track length1:35

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III. Sehr energisch, durchaus schroff

Track length1:30

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IV. Pesante

Track length2:26

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V. Toccata, in tempo ferreo

Track length1:53

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Höller, Y: Diaphonie - Hommage a Bela Bartok

Work length10:49

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Kristi Becker, Pi-hsien Chen

Höller, Y: Piano Sonata No. 1

Work length12:37

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Kristi Becker

I. Sostenuto / Tempo I

Track length4:02

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II. Tranquillo

Track length3:41

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III. Introduzione / Molto agitato

Track length4:54

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Höller, Y: Piano Sonata No. 2 - Hommage a Franz Liszt

Work length17:10

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Pi-hsien Chen

Höller, Y: Partita

Work length16:12

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Kristi Becker, Pi-hsien Chen

I. Preludio. Andante

Track length2:56

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II. Fuga polimetrica. Vivo

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III. Fantasia. Lento

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IV. Conductus. In tempo ferreo

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V. Fantasia II. Quasi improvvisando

Track length2:35

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VI. Gigue. Presto

Track length2:27

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Höller, Y: Piano Sonata No. 3

Work length10:49

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Fabio Martino

Höller, Y: Doppelspiel

Work length14:21

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Tamara Stefanovich, Fabian Müller

I. Duoplay

Track length2:41

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II. Figura ritmica

Track length3:06

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III. Monument

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IV. Patterns

Track length3:55

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V. Ostinato

Track length1:49

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Höller, Y: Monogramme

Work length34:56

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Tamara Stefanovich

I. Entrée – suono quasi orchestrale (für B. A. Zimmermann)

Track length1:42

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II. Initium (für Karlheinz Stockhausen)

Track length2:41

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III. Widerhall (für Kristi Becker)

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IV. Widmung (für Daniel Barenboim)

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V. Zwiegespräch (für Ursula)

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VI. Artikulation (für György Ligeti)

Track length1:59

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VII. Frenesie

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VIII. Gemäßigter Aufschwung

Track length2:30

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IX. Verzweigung (für Pierre Boulez)

Track length2:08

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X. Tastengeläut

Track length3:35

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XI. Elegia giocosa (für Hans Werner Henze)

Track length3:03

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XII. Lines and Shadows (für David Drew)

Track length3:26

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XIII. Fluktuation (für Elena Bashkirova)

Track length2:12

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XIV. Scanning

Track length2:57

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Höller, Y: Five pieces: V. Toccata, in tempo ferreo (Bonus)

Work length1:44

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York Höller

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The special role that the piano takes in York Höller’s oeuvre is the result of his life story. As a sixteen‐year old aspiring pianist, he made his debut with one of his own compositions. He supplemented his composition studies under Bernd Alois Zimmermann at the Cologne College of Music with postgraduate piano studies under Alfons Kontarsky, one of the most important interpreters of the avant‐garde during the second half of the twentieth century, and to whom he dedicated his First Piano Sonata. The works written between 1964 and 2012 for this instrument not only mark important stages of York Höller’s compositional development, but they also reveal his fundamental interest in – and knowledge of – the playing characteristics of the instrument, which have a direct influence on the structure and facture of the writing: York Höller’s piano works are genuine keyboard music in the tradition of the important piano composers of the past, from Beethoven through Chopin and Liszt to Debussy, Ravel, and Bartók.

After a comprehensive overview of the piano oeuvre of the Cologne‐resident Krzysztof Meyer (eda 36, Christian Seibert), eda records devotes itself again to the piano works of an important contemporary composer, which are presented nearly complete on this double CD. This is a compilation of recordings that have already appeared in various other places. The piano works that were composed between 1968 and 1996 (5 Pieces for Piano, Diaphonie, the First and Second Piano Sonatas, the Partita) were issued in 2003 by CPO but have long been out of print. The Third Piano Sonata is from Fabio Martino’s debut CD (Oehms Classics, 2013), which was produced in 2011 following his first prize at the Competition of the Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft. Monogramme and Doppelspiel, which were both premiered at the Ruhr Piano Festival, were released in 2005 and 2012 within the framework of the respective festival documentation. A historical recording from 1965 of the last of the 5 Piano Pieces, which shows the composer’s exquisite pianistic skills, completes the circle of this fascinating pianistic oeuvre created over the period of nearly a half a century.

York Höller: Piano Works

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