Hefti has won many prestigious composition competitions and was a pupil of Rihm. These world premiere recordings, conducted by David Zinman and performed by his Tinhalle Orchestra Zurich, are a discovery.
26th April 2012
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“The orchestral works that frame the disc – Klangbogen and the two-movement cello concerto Gegenklang – show Hefti's music commuting between the general and the specific, from amorphous, microtonal textures to harder-edged gestures and back again. But the range is wide”
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