MEDIA
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 addition to Sarah Nemtsov, Eres Holz contributed an outstanding work to this rich, thoughtful Forum. His string quartet Dunkle Risse wants to set the negative pole to our society, which focuses only on positiveness. Beauty arises here from pain, from carefully developed, fragile, repeatedly broken up sound spaces in which the transience of the sound leads us straight to the meadow of paradise.
Forum neuer Musik 2021
NZM - Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
January 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
Holz does not want to unfold a deceptive paradise in his music, but to raise questions about fears and existential situations. This means creatively facing the contradictions of life.
Forum neuer Musik 2021
Eres Holz's great string quartet also relies on emotions; it is inspired by thoughts of crossing borders and internal state of extremity.
Frank Kämpfer
Forum neuer Musik 2021