The music on this album does not really include transcriptions as that word is used in English. What you get are three pieces by Machaut himself, performed in straightforward vocal versions by the Hilliard Ensemble, and six compositions by Heinz Holliger (known to average classical listeners as a Swiss virtuoso oboist, but increasingly active as a composer) that are designated as "nach Machaut" ("after Machaut"). All the Holliger pieces are for three violas. The first three of these are based on the Machaut pieces that ...
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The music on this album does not really include transcriptions as that word is used in English. What you get are three pieces by Machaut himself, performed in straightforward vocal versions by the Hilliard Ensemble, and six compositions by Heinz Holliger (known to average classical listeners as a Swiss virtuoso oboist, but increasingly active as a composer) that are designated as "nach Machaut" ("after Machaut"). All the Holliger pieces are for three violas. The first three of these are based on the Machaut pieces that precede them on the program, while the last three depart to a greater degree from Machaut: one adds parts to a monophonic lai; one is a free fantasy called "In(ter)ventio"; and the grand 15-minute finale brings the voices and instruments together in a reworking of a section of the epic poem La remède de fortune . Holliger's musical language gradually stretches that of Machaut until the link consists of little more than intervals and sonorities, but the final piece is still...
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