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Touching Universes and Ends (2019)
for oboe/English horn, clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon, piano, viola, cello, percussion and electronics
JetztMusik concert series, July 22/23, 2021, SWR Studio and Elisabeth Schneider Foundation, Freiburg
Album Tip: Touching Universes
SWR, November 21, 2022
Music Panorama: Touching Universes – Compositions by Eres Holz
DLF, September 26, 2022
JetztMusik: New Production by Ensemble Aventure
SWR, January 13/20, 2022
Touching Universes and Ends was written while I was mourning the death of my mother. The piece attempts, through slow and gradual acceleration and intensification to the extreme, to reach a place of calm—where perhaps a new beginning can be found.
Touching Universes
Release Date: August 26, 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
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
[...]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
Für Eres Holz stehen die Mikrotöne »als Zeichen für das Un-perfekt-Sein des Menschen – der Mensch als biologisches Wesen, und keine sterile, keine ›wohltemperierte‹ Maschine. Mikrotöne als Ausdruck von Schmerz, aber auch von Leidenschaft und Erotik«.
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Ingo Dorfmüller
NEOS
2022
Harmonie ist als Referenzrahmen für das Melodische unerlässlich: »Ich arbeite harmonisch, damit die Melodien auch einen ›Sinn‹ bekommen. Wie Bach es tut. Und gerade deshalb erlaube ich mir die melodische Freiheit, weil sie harmonisch fundiert ist.«
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Ingo Dorfmüller
NEOS
2022
Touching Universes and Ends greift auf alle denkbaren Farbwerte und Geräuschklänge zu, die einem siebenköpfigen Ensemble abverlangt werden können: Eine Musik, die in symphonische Dimensionen ausgreift.
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Ingo Dorfmüller
NEOS
2022
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.
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21. November 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
[...] 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
In „Touching universes and ends“ für Ensemble und Elektronik verarbeitet der Komponist Eres Holz den Tod seiner Mutter. Intensive, schmerzhafte Steigerungswellen münden in beruhigende Klavierakkorde (Akiko Okabe). Die groß besetzte, weit dimensionierte Komposition erreicht orchestrale Ausmaße.
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