Heinz Holliger & Sebastian Bohren

The Swiss conductor and composer Heinz Holliger invites you to rediscover forgotten works and composers.

It probably takes the committed commitment of the Swiss conductor and composer Heinz Holliger to bring Willy Burkhard back to memory and his work back to the concert stage. Because it has become quiet around him, the Swiss composer. Even ambitious choral associations hardly pay attention to his great choral works "The Face of Isaiah" and "The Year", and his instrumental music, such as his Violin Concerto, is also in poor shape. Incidentally, it shares this fate with Schumann's Fantasy for violin and orchestra – another work that is one of the almost forgotten. It is good that Heinz Holliger is performing these works again, because this is the only way to decide today whether earlier generations once judged wrongly and whether such judgments should be corrected from a current point of view. Probably yes. Schumann's Fourth, on the other hand, is still a fixture in the repertoire of the city's symphony orchestras today.

Violin: Sebastian Bohren
Head: Heinz Holliger
Orchestra: Musikkollegium Winterthur