Heinz Holliger

Holliger’s approach to this haunting masterwork itself is thoughtfully and beautifully paced, with the period-style reduced vibrato on the strings not overdone, and featuring solo woodwind playing... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Gerhaher is astonishing in the virtuoso principal role...traversing the gamut of language and expression from song to speech. Yet this is an ensemble piece, in which past and present lovers... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie] calls for considerable virtuosity from each of its 15 solo players, and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra under Heinz Holliger acquits itself very well...Holliger... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

their new account under Heinz Holliger unfolds at relatively steady tempos, with more compositional logic than late Romantic passion...[Holliger's] deployment of a relatively small string line-up... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Like everything in this series from Holliger and his Basel players, the confidence and refinement of the performances provide their own recommendation, even if the music itself isn’t quite essential... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2022 More…

Heinz Holliger’s energetic approach to Schubert pays off in this recording of these two symphonies. The bright Symphony No. 3 fizzes...In the rather more sombre overture to Alfonso und Estrella,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Concerto is a portrait of Louis Soutter, who studied the violin with Ysaÿe, and later became a painter of dark pictures… Holliger quotes the opening of this particular sonata in distorted... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2004, 5 out of 5 stars More…