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Holt: Canto Ostinato Arranged for Organ & Trumpet (Deluxe)
Brilliant Classics

Holt: Canto Ostinato Arranged for Organ & Trumpet (Deluxe)

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Composer
Simeon ten Holt
Artist
Aart Bergwerff, Eric Vloeimans
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
May 03, 2024
Catalog #
BRI97409
UPC
5028421974095

About

A new and strikingly effective
arrangement of a modern
minimalist classic.
Canto Ostinato is a familiar
landmark of modern Dutch art
music. Known affectionately and
simply as the Canto, it receives
many performances each year in a
plethora of arrangements, whether
with the two or four pianos which
Simeon ten Holt had in mind when
he wrote the work in 1976, or
performed by soloists and
ensembles. This flexibility is
inherent in the form of the piece.
Ten Holt supplies a sequence of 106
rhythmic cells which may be
repeated one or many more times,
thus potentially creating a duration
of one or many more hours. The
simple and repetitive patterns blur
the listener’s sense of time, which
becomes space: space for the
performers, space for creation, but
also space for the listeners, space
for imagination.
At the invitation of Orgelpark
Amsterdam, the organist Aart
Bergwerff has been giving annual
performances of Canto Ostinato,
always in a new instrumentation, in
company with different musicians.
This groundbreaking version for
trumpet and organ arose as the
result of a chance meeting
backstage between Bergwerff and
the trumpeter Eric Vloeimans. The
recording captures a concert given
in October 2023 at the Orgelpark,
presenting Canto Ostinato as a kind of
monody for trumpet and organ, like a
long-spun solo with basso continuo.
Bergwerff and Vloeimans had known each
other as students at the conservatoire in
Rotterdam, and so this artistic partnership
was a renewal of friendship as well as a
synthesis of common musical values.
Relying as it does on the stamina of a solo
trumpeter, this version of Canto Ostinato
is necessarily shorter than most of the
canonic versions, but it illuminates the
piece with a fresh perspective, more
melodically focused than keyboard-centric
instrumentations, and evolving more
rapidly through Ten Holt’s cycle of
harmonic change.

Tracklist 6 tracks

  1. 1 Part 1 29:59
    Track
    1
    Title
    Part 1
    Duration
    29:59
    Composer
    Simeon ten Holt
    Performer
    Eric Vloeimans, Aart Bergwerff
  2. 2 Theme (74) 12:11
    Track
    2
    Title
    Theme (74)
    Duration
    12:11
    Composer
    Simeon ten Holt
    Performer
    Eric Vloeimans, Aart Bergwerff
  3. 3 Transition (86) 03:37
    Track
    3
    Title
    Transition (86)
    Duration
    03:37
    Composer
    Simeon ten Holt
    Performer
    Eric Vloeimans, Aart Bergwerff
  4. 4 Part 2B 10:22
    Track
    4
    Title
    Part 2B
    Duration
    10:22
    Composer
    Simeon ten Holt
    Performer
    Eric Vloeimans, Aart Bergwerff
  5. 5 Theme (95) 10:58
    Track
    5
    Title
    Theme (95)
    Duration
    10:58
    Composer
    Simeon ten Holt
    Performer
    Eric Vloeimans, Aart Bergwerff
  6. 6 Coda 03:02
    Track
    6
    Title
    Coda
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Simeon ten Holt
    Performer
    Eric Vloeimans, Aart Bergwerff