Ten Holt: Solo Piano Music, Vol. 1-5

Performing these works is the acclaimed Dutch pianist Jeroen van Veen, a Brilliant Classics regular who is one of Ten Holt’s biggest advocates. The release is an engaging follow-up to his 11CD box set with Ten Holt (‘Multiple Piano Works’) and the 9CD ‘Minimal Piano Collection’, which includes his own 24 minimal preludes.

Composer: Simeon Ten Holt
Artists: Jeroen van Veen (piano)

Born in 1923, Simeon ten Holt was a leading Dutch composer who came to attention following studies in Paris with Honegger and Milhaud. His music is best described as minimalist, and draws on the principles of Western harmony as well as those of aleatoricism.

This 5CD compilation is dedicated to Ten Holt’s music for piano, an instrument that dominates his output and which for him contained all the possibilities he needed as a composer. Undoubtedly the most famous work featured is Canto Ostinato – a piece of stretched tones and fixed parts which, depending on the amount of repetition/phrasing/emphasis and volume as determined by the individual performer, provides for an almost endless range of performances. The process of listening to this music is similar to that of experiencing a ritual, and the same can be said of the other works on the compilation: Natalon in E, Aforisme II, the four Solos Devils Dances and Eadem Sed Aliter, the latter of which demands a high level of skill through the ‘two sixteenths’ separation between the left and right hand.

Tracklist:

Canto Ostinato:
0:00:00 Section 01
0:15:29 Section 20
0:41:01 Section 74
0:52:44:Section 88
1:03:54 Section 91
1:09:14 Section 95

Natalon in E Major:
1:18:15 I. Sostenuto
1:28:19 II. Andante moderato, giusto
1:36:16:III. Adagio, agitato
1:40:06 IV. Lento sostenuto
1:49:50 V. Molto allegro giusto

2:01:15 Aforism II

Solo Devil’s Dances II:
2:05:17 Section 1
2:38:12 Section 61
2:44:02 Section 72
2:52:59 Section 89
3:01:04 Section 93

Solo Devil’s Dances III:
3:13:00 Section 1
3:39:33 Section 26
3:45:38 Section 44
3:55:06 Section 68

Solo Devil’s Dances I:
3:58:58 Allegro vivace tempestoso

Eadem Sed Aliter:
4:03:08 Section 1
4:29:04 Section 73
4:36:15 Section 104

Solo Devil’s Dances:
4:41:38 Section 1
4:59:28 Section 29

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[MenelionFR]

Ideal music for work or meditation. I remember that fabulous performance of Incantatie IV for three pianos featured on Brilliant Classics. Thank you!

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un grand merci pour cette découverte façinante .

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Superbement interprété, particulièrement la douceur qui commence vers à partir de 26:30. Frissons garantis pour moi!

[НиколайИванов-эыч]

you have a mistake in the description of the video.
00: 52: 44: Section 88
01:36:16:III. Adagio, agitato
You need to remove the colon

[alexanderbayramov]

Aforism II sounds like a piece preceding canto ostinato (particularly that section 74), but at the same time it reminds of Chopin a bit

[stefandarie]

I am waiting for the last two books of madrigals by Monteverdi.
Thank you very much.