Holt: Meandres

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
June 14, 2024
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Simeon ten Holt
    • PERFORMER
      Polo De Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 14, 2024
    • UPC
      5028421970059
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI97005
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Part I: Section 1

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    2. Part I: Section 8

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    3. Part I: Section 21

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    4. Part I: Section 31

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    5. Part I: Section 37

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    6. Part I: Section 42

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    7. Part I: Section 53

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    8. Part I: Section 74

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    9. Part II: Section 87

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    10. Part II: Section 88

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    11. Part II: Section 101

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    12. Part II: Section 106

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    13. Part II: Section 122

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    14. Part II: Section 125

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    15. Part II: Section 130

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    16. Part II: Section 135

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    17. Part II: Section 138

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    18. Part II: Section 145

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    19. Part II: Section 149

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    20. Part II: Section 155

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    21. Part II: Section 161

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    22. Part II: Section 167

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg

    23. Part II: Section 168

      Composer: Simeon ten Holt

      Performer: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg


A mesmerising piano cycle by the master of Dutch minimalism. 'I write music like this not because I'm isolated,' Simeon Ten Holt once said. 'I'm isolated because I write music like this.' And yet, since his death in 2012, performances and recordings of his music have multiplied like one of his motivic cells, gathering energy and momentum to spread the reputation of a composer who took the rhythmic precepts of American minimalists such as Reich and Glass, and coloured them with a European-Romantic glow of harmony. Composed in 1995-97 for four pianos, Meandres is another monumental yet approachable piano cycle in the mould of his celebrated Canto Ostinato, more complex and more chromatic than the earlier cycle but sharing with it a hypnotic clarity and an improvisatory freedom which leaves a good deal of liberty to the performers. At first, there is no melody, in the usual sense of the word. However, over time, a pattern emerges like a puzzle taking shape before the listener. The title refers to the meandering course of rivers, which takes them to mountain slopes as well as lowlands. 'Because it is like a work in progress which never reaches closure,' remarks the composer, 'the meandering structure of the piece is quite demanding on the performers. It is the condensation of an inquiry into the very limits of time and space.' This recording of Meandres was made in 1999 by a team of Dutch pianists who had all worked with Ten Holt on his music, and accordingly it vibrates with disciplined authenticity. Sharp accents continually break and articulate the line and the restatement of the germinal motif, but it always loops back to a cadence which Robert Schumann would have recognised. Combining Baroque rigour with early-Romantic harmony and late-20th-century form, Meandres is both post-modern and timeless as an extension of piano literature.