Sonata (in)solit(air)e (Flute Alone)

Sonata (in)solit(air)e (Flute Alone) by Heinz Holliger (b. 1939), Published by Schott, Includes performance score only, 24 pages. Written in 1996, Duration: 18′.

World premiere: January 28, 1996 Oberwil (CH) Concert for the 70th birthday of Aurle Nicolet Aurle Nicolet, Philippe Racine, Felix Renggli, flute (world premiere of No. I-IX and No. XII)

July 28, 1997 Tokyo (J) Aurle Nicolet and Felix Renggli, Flute (First Complete Performance (I-XII))

October 28, 2000 Genve, Conservatoire (CH) Emanuel Pahud, flute (world premiere of “Petit Air pour flte solitaire”)

This gently ironic and teasing work is also an extremely virtuosic hommage to his colleague and friend Aurle Nicolet by the famous oboist Holliger. A compendium of contemporary avant-garde playing techniques in a suite in 12 movements.

I CLTURE OUVERTE (avec Fugue sans fougue)
II ALLEMANDE (al)lmanique
III COURANTE peu courante, mais trop courrante
IV LA BANDE DE SARA
V BOURRE bourre de solitude (d’aprs “Le marteau du centimtre”)
VI BADINES! RIES!
VII LA POLONIAISE
VIII MENU ET GIGOT
IX LA MUSE ET LA MUSETTE D’OBERWIL
X NICOTIN ET NICOTINE Danse gauloise en forme de pas de bleu(e)
XI L’IRREL AU REL
XII PASSACANAILLE
Anhang/Appendix: Petit air pour flte solitaire

I CLOSURE OPEN (with Fugue without fervor)II GERMAN (al) Lake GenevaIII CURRENT uncommon, but too currentIV THE SARA BANDV BOURRE stuffed with loneliness (after “The hammer of the centimeter”)VI BADINES! – RIES!VII THE POLISHVIII MENU AND GIGOTIX THE MUSEUM AND THE OBERWIL MUSETTEX NICOTIN AND NICOTINE Gaulish dance in the shape of blue stepsXI THE IRREAL TO THE REALXII PASSACANAILLEAppendix: Small air for solo flute