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Dunkle Risse (2018)
for string quartet
Commissioned by Deutschlandfunk
Rostislav Kozhevnikov - violin
Barbara Streil - violin
Justyna Sliwa - viola
Teemu Myöhänen - cello
Musik-Panorama: Touching Universes - Kompositionen von Eres Holz
DLF, 26. September 2022
Forum neuer Musik 2021: Eres Holz' Streichquartett
DLF, 20. November 2021
The work touches on existential questions of existential dimension. The music seeks not to unfold a deceptive paradise, but to confront the contradictions of life, fears, and boundary situations. "Without negativity, life withers into dead existence. It is precisely negativity that keeps life alive," writes the Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han. Our society often conceals the abysses of life. And last but not least, death as well. The string quartet aims to set the negative pole against our society, which only presents positives. Beauty arises from pain, from carefully developed, fragile, repeatedly broken sound spaces, in which the transience of the tone leads us straight to the "paradise meadow" in the final movement. The work consists of tension fields between tempered and microtonal systems that "collide" with each other. Different degrees of dissonance create different sonic qualities. The harmonies are shaped by the emergence and disappearance of microtonal deviations, a process that makes the music experientially tangible as a malleable "plastic" element. The incorporation of microtones has a physical effect, as if the interpolated timbres and resulting intensities were "tearing open" the sound space. My goal in working with microtones is to convey the original, non-locatable nature of feeling. The feeling of "in-betweenness" is its essence, a spontaneous, unfiltered voice that cannot be fixed. In this way, it is able to penetrate and emotionally touch.
Touching Universes
Erscheinungsdatum: 26. August 2022
Label: NEOS Music GmbH
EAN: 4260063122071
Bestellnummer: 12207-08
Anzahl Disks: 2
Spieldauer: 156 Minuten
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
Eres Holz, desinhibición y reflexión en torno al sonido
Susteck, referencia absoluta en la interpretación del órgano contemporáneo, parece pasárselo en grande con el festín sónico que le propone una partitura que puede llegar a abrumar por la masividad de algunos de sus pasajes, en los que se busca los contrastes más acuciados posibles y, a la vez, una espiritualidad de la que no se nos habla en la carpetilla del disco pero que se traslada a la escucha con facilidad y relativa predisposición a la misma.
May 2023
Neben Sarah Nemtsov steuerte Eres Holz ein herausragendes Werk zu diesem so reichhaltigen, gedankentiefen Forum bei. Sein Streichquartett Dunkle Risse will den negativen Pol zu unserer nur Positives vorzeigenden Gesellschaft setzen. Schönheit entsteht hier aus dem Schmerz, aus behutsam entwickelten, fragilen, immer wieder aufgebrochenen Klangräumen, in denen uns die Vergänglichkeit des Tons geradewegs auf die Paradieswiese führt.
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
An extensive insight into the composition of Eres Holz provides his CD with various solo and ensemble pieces. They convey an impressively intense music whose existential impetus is always present, without expressive platitudes [...]
September 2022
Eres Holz deals with grief and loss in two large compositions for ensemble. In doing so, he allows one to reflect on the experiences and then converts them into emotional sound forms. This is how he creates fundamental and deep arising reactions.
September 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
What Eres Holz wants, how he composes, that can be heard in the string quartet Dunkle Risse (2018). In five sections, the work addresses dark introspections from fascinatingly alien landscapes of the soul. [...] Extroverted expression is avoided: the composer pulls the strings in the background. The Cologne Asasello Quartet pays tribute to this by taking on the exciting work with aplomb and sensitivity.
September 2022
[...] Its unusual and at the same time multifaceted and interesting sound („die frau“ 2020) goes with the disturbingly bizarre character of the text („die frau“ / Constantin Virgil Banescu) creating a peculiar connection and flows into a final section in which the singer, previously sung as ordinario as possible now sings the lyrics "Ah!" to a squeaky creaking sound. This creates an interesting field of tension in relation to the three other instrumental works, as well as to the solo works of the MACH series – and thus a multi-faceted and worth listening Portrait of the compositional work of Eres Holz.
November 2022
