Heinz Holliger
Violinkonzert
Thomas Zehetmair violin
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Heinz Holliger conductor
Eugène Ysaÿe
Sonate op. 27, Nr. 3 “Ballade”
in d-Moll für Violine solo
Heinz Holliger
Violinkonzert
Hommage à Louis Soutter, élève d’Eugène Ysaÿe
Deuil
Obsession
Ombres
Avant le massacre
Recorded September and December 2002
ECM New Series 1890
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Heinz Holliger’s Violin Concerto, subtitled “Hommage à Louis Soutter”, is a musical portrait of the innovative Swiss painter who began his artistic career as a violinist, studying with the great Eugène Ysaÿe . Arguing that his painterly activity was an extension of his playing, Holliger “translates” Soutter’s agitated brushstrokes into pitches. Soutter’s troubled relationship to Ysaÿe is one of the concerto’s conceptual themes, as is the militant pacifism that found expression in his canvasses. In all, a fascinating, highly-detailed work, played with fiery intensity by Thomas Zehetmair, whose account of Ysaÿe’s third sonata – astonishing in its own right - becomes here a highly effective ‘foreword’ to the Holliger composition, laying bare one of its inspirational sources.
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