Beiseit / Alb-Chehr
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HEINZ HOLLIGER
Beiseit / Alb-Chehr
David James : countertenor / Elmar Schmid : kclar,Teodoro Anzellotti : accordian
[ ECM Records / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 5 December 2000
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Recorded March 1994
Holliger thought about the life and work of the Swiss novelist, essayist and poet Robert Walser(1878-1956) for several decades before setting about the composition of Beiseit . As he did in his Scardanelli-Zyklus, Holliger does much more in Beiseit than merely "setting the text"; the music is loaded with references to Walser's biography and his (often unstable) state of mind.
In Alb-Chehr Holliger utilizes the resources of a "standard" Swiss folklore ensemble to make a "musical version of a Valasian tale about the encounter of a cowherd and his helper with ghosts".
