1 CD |
€ 19.95
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Preorder |
Label Challenge Classics |
UPC 0608917298727 |
Catalogue number CC 72987 |
Release date 03 May 2024 |
"At a time when the world of classical music continues to innovate, this Canto Ostinato can withstand the test of time. Piano duo Scholtes & Janssens have paid tribute to this special work with their recording, and it is up to the listener to surrender to its hypnotic power. Or its energizing power."
Hageland Klassiek, 01-4-2024In 1963, he wrote in his diary that he had it in mind that a concert should be an ongoing performance, with visitors wandering in and out at will. Ten Holt was also fascinated by social processes during these highly formative years. He became interested in time and space. This theme manifested itself in a piece for four keyboards, at the time still entitled Perpetuum. He embarked on this on 19 January 1973. Perpetuum was completed in 1976 but was revised in the period 1976-79 and was then renamed Canto Ostinato. During rehearsals for the premiere, in April 1979, all of the themes that had been occupying Ten Holt seemed to coalesce: small elements that together made up a larger whole; a different form of concert; social processes arising from the freedom that the players had to decide on the number of repetitions; and time and space. Ten Holt never consciously went searching for this form, but when Canto Ostinato began to conquer the musical world it became clear that his solitary quest had drawn something universal from the mists, something that many listeners and musicians would recognise.
At a time when the world of classical music continues to innovate, this Canto Ostinato can withstand the test of time. Piano duo Scholtes & Janssens have paid tribute to this special work with their recording, and it is up to the listener to surrender to its hypnotic power. Or its energizing power.
Hageland Klassiek, 01-4-2024