「Zwiegesprache」～クルターグ、ホリガー: 作品集

ホリガー生誕80年記念、クルターグとの音楽の「対話」

アルバム『Zwiegesprache』(「対話」)は、ハインツ・ホリガーが演奏する非常に感動的なオーボエの音ともに、彼の長年の友人であるジェルジ・クルターグがホリガーのために書いた作品で始まります。そして次にホリガーが作曲した答えが、教え子であるマリー=リーゼ・シュプバッハのコールアングレで演奏され、二人の作曲家の対話がここから広がってゆきます。どの作品も短いながら多くのメッセージが込められています。ホリガーを中心にシュプバッハ、クラリネット奏者のエルネスト・モリナーリが共演。ソプラノ歌手のサラ・ウェゲナーもその透き通った力強い声を披露しています。世界をリードするオーボエ奏者として長きにわたって活躍を続けるホリガーの80歳を記念するこのアルバムには、彼の演奏者、作曲者としての2つの芸術性が完璧に具現化されています。
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS

The ECM label released this album to celebrate the 80th birthday of the awe-inspiring oboist Heinz Holliger, who obviously has not lost a step either as a player, or in a capacity for which he is somewhat less known, as a composer. He and Gyorgy Kurtag were, in fact, both taught by Sandor Veress, and the two freely admit that if you listen to this album, you'll be hard pressed to distinguish between the works of the two composers stylistically. Both pursue organizational principles that are dictated by a structural idea, but are not serial. The pieces on the album are all dialogues of one kind or another, and this presents a good framework through which listeners can approach the music. There is the dialogue between Holliger and Kurtag as composers, and that between Holliger and the various instrumentalists who back him, often in duets in the short pieces that make up the program. More intricate, is the dialogue with nonagenarian, poet Philippe Jaccottet (who makes Kurtag and Holliger seem like youngsters), reading his own micropoems, followed by short Holliger compositions that echo and interpret the poem structurally. This is an unusual procedure which may take a moment to grasp, but once you do, the connections present themselves readily, and you'll be tuned in to much of the rest of the music. Sample these Airs, especially the third one, where the paired oboes reflect the images of duality in the poem. Other dialogues involve events and relationships in the lives of the two principals, and the inevitable dialogue between later and earlier works. A fine birthday tribute to an instrumentalist almost every classical listener has heard at one time or another, but who continues to discover new things.