Heinz Holliger - Trio @pelodelperro

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Trio, for oboe / cor anglais, viola, and harp (1966)

Heinz Holliger, oboe / cor anglais
Serge Collot, viola
Ursula Holliger, harp

My Trio is divided into three movements. The first movement consists of three monochrome descending lines, uninterrupted and simultaneous (but on three different temporal levels), which show a high degree of mutual correspondence, but never become identical: shadow forms, distortion of the contours as in a concave mirror, blurring, simultaneous mobile and immobile presentation of an object. After the complex, dense acoustic image of the first movement, the effect of the second movement is very loose, relaxed, and colourful. It consists of nine parts, which can be freely joined and interlaced. The final shape, both of the overall form and of the details, is not determined by the interpreters till the moment of performance. The two-part final movement has the function of an epilogue: echo, dark colours, reminiscence, disintegration... --Heinz Holliger

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