Hans-Jürg MEIER
“colours de la rose . presso il passo di cristallina . diaphanés”

Colours de la rose (2001) for flute, oboe, saxophone. A work in nine parts contrasting the music by Guillaume de Machaut.
Presso il passo di cristallina (1993) for 2 recorders. “the piece was preceded by the real experience of surprising silence just before crossing the Passo di Cristallina” (Hans Jürg Meier)
Diaphanés (durchscheinend), 2015, for three baroque transverse flutes and percussion. Music to Santo Stefano in Rotondo in Rome, the musical sensation while entering the room and its architectonical athmosphere.

In Hans-Jürg Meier’s music, translations from architecture have become increasingly meaningful.
On the one hand, in both art forms, the power of imagination is of fundamental importance.
On the other, both work with holistic formal inventions that unfold in time or/and in space.
Endeavouring to make physically tangible the sensual qualities of the musical material (tones, intervals, texture), his compositions are committed to exploring the interaction of nature, form and beauty.