MEDIA
Klangrede
Kataklothes (2015)
for large ensemble
Quintett (2009)
for flute, clarinet, viola, piano and harp
Zafraan Ensemble, Titus Engel
Original Release Date: 2016
Number of Discs: 1
Label: bastille musique 4
Run Time: 69.34 minutes
ASIN: B01N8XERA5
Longlist 01/2017 of Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik
Five stars deluxe
The CD is recommended by the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik:
The concert of the Zafraan Ensemble with pieces by Johannes B. Borowski, Eres Holz and Stefan Keller was one of the most remarkable, most alive concerts at Ultraschall: Festival for Contemporary Music 2016 in Berlin. With all the differences in musical rhetoric, the individual pieces have the will to complex structures and energetic sound processes in common, which, in the brilliantly playing Zafraan ensemble, transform into a tangible sense of soundness.
Dirk Wieschollek
The Forum for Contemporary Music at Deutschlandfunk in Cologne is looking for "post-migrant visions"
“[...] uncomfortable to encounter after this "somersault into the past" (,Ihr sollt die Wahrheit erben' by H. Keller) the ensemble piece Kataklothes by Eres Holz, an Israeli composer who has "returned" to Germany and whose ancestors include Polish Holocaust victims. "Connecting threads" according to the fate goddesses of Greek mythology are for Holz an essential source of inspiration for an overwhelmingly colorful, developing into organic flow introductory and releasing music.“
Isabel Herzfeld
Frankfurter Allgemeine
17.04.19, Nr. 91, S. 13
Kataklothes for Ensemble of the Israeli composer Eres Holz focussed and captivated the ear through the breathless and density of his language. One understood: If there is something like "new music" of today, then that first and foremost has to be to establish a search as urgency, in order to conquer even a space in which one can speaks and breathes , claim and so on.
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nmz - neue musikzeitung
5/2019
Significantly more extrovert: Kataklothes (2015), which is characterized by tumultuous chaos with shrill expressiveness and flashy colors. A very intense piece with a lot of percussion, dissonant condensation and folk music valeurs, as if the goddesses of fate in ancient mythology were pulling the strings here directly
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Dirk Wieschollek
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
05/2017