MEDIA
November 2022
Album-Tipp
Touching Universes
The music of the Berlin-based composer Eres Holz can be heard regularly at new music festivals. A double album has now been released containing works by this composer from the past seven years. [...] for two and a half hours you can get to know the art of an important contemporary composer that is as challenging as it is communicative.
Touching Universes
Release: 26. August 2022
Label: NEOS Music GmbH
EAN: 4260063122071
Order number: 12207-08
Number of discs: 2
Duration: 156 minutes
Nomination for the OPUS Klassik
"Touching Universes" was nominated for the OPUS Klassik in three categories: "Composer of the Year", "Chamber Music" and "Contemporary Music"
June 2023
[...]In the 18-minutes piece „Touching Universes and Ends“ played by Ensemble Aventure, Holz achieves an extraordinary variety of sounds and density. It almost goes without saying that this is also played brilliantly. A double CD that invites you to listen to it again and again.
November 2022
For Eres Holz, the microtones stand »as a sign of the imperfection of human – human as a biological being, and not a sterile, not a 'well-tempered' machine. Microtones as an expression of pain, but also of passion and eroticism.«
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Ingo Dorfmüller
NEOS
2022
Harmony is essential as a frame of reference for the melodic: “I work harmonically so that the melodies obtain a relevance of meaning, as Bach does. And that is precisely why I allow myself melodic freedom, because it is harmonically well-founded.«
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Ingo Dorfmüller
NEOS
2022
Touching Universes and Ends reaches all imaginable colors and noises that can be executed by the ensemble: music that reaches into symphonic dimensions.
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Ingo Dorfmüller
NEOS
2022
In „Touching universes and ends“ for ensemble and electronics, the composer Eres Holz processes the death of his mother. Intense, painful increasing waves lead to calming piano chords. The large-scale composition reaches orchestral proportions.
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