Partita
composer: Heinz Holliger
Dedication: für András Schiff
Premiere: September 12, 2001 Berlin, Philharmonie, Kammermusiksaal (D) Berliner Festwochen 2001 · András Schiff, Klavier
Instrumentation: piano
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 35' 0''
Year of composition: 1999
Difficulty: Difficult
ISMN: 979-0-001-13194-0
Order number: ED 9459
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Description
Heinz Holliger has dealt intensively with Friedrich Hölderlin and Robert Schumann. The third movement of his Partita, a Barcarole, is preceded by the motto: ‘We should let ourselves be cradled | As if on a boat rocking on the sea.’ These lines have been taken from the poem ‘Mnemosyne’ (Memory) by Hölderlin. The piece starts in the rhythm of old gondola songs. But sometimes it loses its typical steady flow of music, lapsing into speech
tones and rhythms. The fourth and sixth movements are headed ‘Sphynxen für Sch.’, reminiscent of the term ‘Sphinxes’ used by Schumann in Carnaval to turn his name into tones. The second movement ‘Fuga’ refers back to Schumann’s fugues for pedal piano. The code BACH, a transposition from Schumann’s Op. 60, appears right in the middle.
Holliger‘s Partita clearly shows how he refers to a historical background which he has arranged and structured in many layers.
Composed in anticipation of the Bach anniversary in 2000. The forms and religious symbolism in Holliger’s piece are not restricted in their reference to the Cantor of St Thomas’ Leipzig, but include the interwoven contradictory attitudes towards Bach of Schumann and Liszt. A technically and musically demanding concert piece.
Content
Prelude (“Inner Voice”)
Fugue
Barcarole
Sphinxes for Sch. (Intermezzo I)
petit “Csárdás obstiné”
Sphinxes for Sch. (Intermezzo II)
Ciacona monoritmica
Recordings
Schumann / Holliger (2011)
Heinz Holliger- Partita
- + Schumann: Kreisleriana
Alexander Lonquich (piano)
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