Lifelines

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Label
Wergo
Release Date
January 30, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Ludwig van Beethoven, Heinz Holliger, Jurg Wyttenbach
    • PERFORMER
      Kirill Zvegintsov, Heinz Holliger
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 30, 2026
    • UPC
      4010228741322
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      WER74132
    • LABEL
      Wergo
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Piano
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. —

      Composer: Jürg Wyttenbach

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov, Heinz Holliger

    2. No. 2. —

      Composer: Jürg Wyttenbach

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    3. No. 3. —

      Composer: Jürg Wyttenbach

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    4. No. 1. Wiegenlied für Erich

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    5. No. 2. HBEC I

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    6. No. 3. HBEC II

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    7. No. 4. HBEC III

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    8. No.5. Zwei Stück nach Mani Matter: I. M.M. umspielt

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    9. No. 6. Zwei Stück nach Mani Matter: II. Simadini

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    10. Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: I. Vivace ma non troppo

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    11. No. 7. Trois petits riens: I. Geburtstags-Tusch für SAnDor vErEss

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    12. No. 8. Trois petits riens: II. Petite fanfare pour Bernard

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    13. No. 9. Trois petits riens: III. Wtwas sprunghaftes Bicinium für András Schiff

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    14. Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: II. Prestissimo

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    15. Albumblätter: No. 10. Für Gabriel

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    16. Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: III. Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung: Variations 1-5

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    17. No. 11. 75. Variation nach Ludwytt Beetenbach

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov, Heinz Holliger

    18. No. 12. Feuerwerklein zum „Quatorze juillet“

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    19. No. 13. Zwei Albumblätter getuscht I

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    20. No. 14. Zwei Albumblätter getuscht II

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    21. Márta

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    22. Albumblätter: No. 15. BMC, für Márta und Gyuri

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    23. Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: III. Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung: Variation 6: Tempo I del tema

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov

    24. Albumblätter: No. 16. Gespie(ge)lt - gesun(d)(g)en

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov, Heinz Holliger

    25. Lebenslinien

      Composer: Heinz Holliger

      Performer: Kirill Zvegintsov


Heinz Holliger, an exceptional oboist, pianist, and composer, did not compose anything for piano for almost 40 years after his 1961 work "Elis - Three Nocturnes". A whole series of musical tributes and birthday greetings composed since the beginning of the 21st century was then published in 2019 under the Schumannesque title "Albumblatter" (Album Leaves) and has now been recorded in it's entirety for the first time by Kirill Zvegintsov. These are typically Holligerian, highly intricate showpieces with many references, which are expertly explained in the album essay. These works are combined with early and late piano works by the Swiss composer and pianist Jurg Wyttenbach, who died in 2021 and had a close musical relationship with Holliger. In the last years of his life, this expert in New Music took on the daring task of completing Beethoven's sketches for an alternative third movement for his Piano Sonata Op. 109 - an undertaking that only such a skilled pianist and composer could attempt. In the last days of his life, Wyttenbach was able to listen to the premiere of this reconstruction by Zvegintsov. The Ukrainian pianist combines and contrasts this experiment with the original modern works in a very stimulating way.