2025
DEATH
Release: November 2024
Label: NEOS Music GmbH
Order number: 12431
Number of discs: 1
Duration: 71 minutes
Cover: Maria Frodl
[...] Se trata entonces de una gozosa ceremonia de la confusión interpretada con furia y, a la vez, se ha de insistir en ello, con una extrañísima musicalidad marca de la casa.
[...] Ultimately, it is an ecstatic ceremony of confusion—performed with fury but, it must be emphasized, with an unmistakable and uniquely original musicality that is distinctly Holz’s own.
February 2025
The Berlin composer Eres Holz [...] writes music of deeply moving, existentialist relentlessness.
Photo: Maria Frodl
February 2025
New CDs of new music, presented by Dirk Wieschollek
Hardly any other composer currently reflects the horrors of the present as intensely as the Israeli-born composer Eres Holz. One will search in vain for superficial content or political messages. Everything existential is directly transformed by Holz into the sphere of sound and its articulations.
February 2025
by Valeska Baader and Mathis Ubben
How does war and violence turn into music? How do composers artistically deal with war and violence? What does violence sound like in music? And how should the audience experience this music?
In this episode, Mathis and Valeska trace the footsteps of music in times of war and talk with Eres Holz and Ehsan Khatibi.
February 2025
New music that leaves no one indifferent [...] His expressive works exhibit a densely structured, highly individual signature.
February 2025
Composers and Their Audience in the Echo Chamber of War and Violence
„I think every human being must, in some way, bring humanity back into the discussion as a topic. And that, please, also in the contemporary music scene. We cannot continue isolating ourselves with experiments.“
February 2025
Autumn
World premiere and concerts of Waisengarten for the E-MEX Ensemble and the Spóldzielnia Muzyczna Ensemble
Commissioned by the E-MEX Ensemble, supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Christoph Maria Wagner - Artistic Director
Photo: Maciej Moskwa (above), Martin Gendig (below)
April
24. & 25.
MACH for solo trumpet
Damir Bacikin, trumpet
Alter Stadthaussaal, Winterthur, Switzerland
Museum Kleines Klingental, Basel, Switzerland
7. 21h05
Musik-Panorama - Works by Eres Holz from the new album DEATH
Ingo Dorfmüller
DEATH (2023) for two bass clarinets, live-electronics and light
MACH (2020) for trombone and live-electronics
Ein Mensch erkennt, dass er nie Mensch war (2023) for ensemble, text projection and live-electronics
Three new pieces by the Israeli-German composer Eres Holz, born in 1977, revolve around the themes of war, violence, and death. They are seismographically precise responses to the increasingly violent resolution of political and societal conflicts worldwide. [...]
Laurent Bruttin & Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson
Christoph Maria Wagner - Artistic Direction
March
6. 21h
Jetztmusik - New Albums
With Lydia Jeschke, Michael Rebhahn, Leonie Reineke, and Martina Seeber
The editorial team for new music at SWR Kultur presents recently released publications featuring contemporary music.
February
Atelier neuer Musik - Wollen wir den Tod überwinden? (Eng.: Do We Want to Overcome Death? )
22. 22:05
Covid-19 dramatically highlighted the urgency of this question at the time: Even we modern humans are highly fragile and mortal at any moment. But would it be human to overcome the boundary of life? [...] Eres Holz leads into a space between life and death in his string quartet.
Revisited Forum neuer Musik 2020/21
February 2025
9.
WDR 3 Studio Neue Musik. 09.02.2025. 56:07 min. WDR 3. By Tuula Simon.
Music of and for the present is at the center of "Drei für Jetzt" with Tuula Simon and Patrick Hahn. In this episode, they meet recorder player Susanne Fröhlich and experience a deep dive with her.
Markus Zahnhausen - Blätter im Wind (1989) +++ Chaya Czernowin - The last leaf (2010/2012/2023) +++ Gerriet Krishna Sharma / Susanne Fröhlich - buriedwithdaisy (2023) +++ Eres Holz - I aus DEATH (2023) +++ Eres Holz - Unheimlich, apokalyptisch aus: MACH (2020) +++ Fulvio Caldini - Die Sonne, Marginalia No. 210 (2016)
2. 21h05
Konzertdokument der Woche - Brain of Love
Hanno Ehrler
Brain of Love (2024) for large ensemble and live-electronics
Lautaro Mura Fuentealba - conductor
Foto: Jakob Adolphi