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File under: ContemporaryModern Chamber Music
“These performances, by Heinz Holliger and Marie-Lise Schüpbach, are simply astonishing in their fluency,” wrote UK magazine Gramophone of Holliger’s album Zwiegespräche, and the description applies with equal pertinence to con slancio, with its inspired and inspiring play of energies. The title piece, which opens the programme here, was written by the Swiss composer and nonpareil oboist as a tribute to musical partner Schüpbach: “Since I began playing in duo with Marie-Lise, I’ve been fascinated by the way our two instruments expand each other’s range and palette of tone colours. New sound paths have opened up for me.”
The album includes premier recordings of six Holliger compositions written between 2018 and 2020, as well as strongly contrasting pieces dedicated to him by fellow composers over the years. The earliest of these are Jürg Wyttenbach’s Sonate (1961) and Jacques Wildberger’s Rondeau (1962), and the most recent are György Kurtág’s aphoristic con slancio, largamente and Toshio Hosokawa’s evocative Musubi (Knots), both written to celebrate Holliger’s 80th birthday in 2019.
Recorded at Zurich’s DRS Studio, con slancio continues the documentation of Heinz Holliger’s music at ECM New Series begun 40 years ago with the recording of his Mehrklänge für Oboe solo and other compositions in 1986. Major works along the way have included the Scardanelli-Zyklus, the Violin Concerto Hommage à Louis Soutter, and the operas Schneewittchen and Lunea, among many others.
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File under: ContemporaryModern Chamber Music
Cat. number: ECM 2807, 487 8564, ECM NEW SERIES 2807, ECM New Series 2807
Year: 2026
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Soli und Duette für Oboe und Englischhorn
con slancio (2018)
Musubi (2019)
für Oboe und Englischhorn
Ständchen für Rosemarie (2019)
für Englischhorn solo
Sonate für Oboe solo (1961, Erstfassung)
Spiegel – LIED (2019)
LIED mit Gegenüber (contr'air) (2019)
Rondeau für Oboe solo (1962)
Fangis (fang mich) (2020)
à deux – Adieu (2020)
con slancio, largamente (2019)
Duet für Oboe und Englischhorn (2017)
Oh Boe für Oboe solo (1999)
Recorded July/August 2020
Radiostudio DRS Zürich
An ECM Production
℗ © 2026 ECM Records GmbH Pasinger Str. 94 D-82166 Gräfelfing [on O-card back; on tray card]
℗ © 2026 ECM Records GmbH [in booklet]
℗ 2026 ECM Records GmbH [on disc]
Printed in Germany
