Brilliant Classics
Holt: Meandres
$8.49
Details
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Artist
- Polo De Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Brilliant Classics
- Released
- Jun 14, 2024
- Catalog #
- BRI97005
- UPC
- 5028421970059
About
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.
Tracklist 23 tracks
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1 Part I: Section 1 04:36
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Part I: Section 1
- Duration
- 04:36
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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2 Part I: Section 8 08:30
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Part I: Section 8
- Duration
- 08:30
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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3 Part I: Section 21 01:50
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Part I: Section 21
- Duration
- 01:50
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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4 Part I: Section 31 01:06
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Part I: Section 31
- Duration
- 01:06
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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5 Part I: Section 37 02:35
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Part I: Section 37
- Duration
- 02:35
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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6 Part I: Section 42 04:47
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Part I: Section 42
- Duration
- 04:47
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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7 Part I: Section 53 09:21
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Part I: Section 53
- Duration
- 09:21
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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8 Part I: Section 74 05:58
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Part I: Section 74
- Duration
- 05:58
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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9 Part II: Section 87 01:41
- Track
- 9
- Title
- Part II: Section 87
- Duration
- 01:41
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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10 Part II: Section 88 03:29
- Track
- 10
- Title
- Part II: Section 88
- Duration
- 03:29
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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11 Part II: Section 101 03:04
- Track
- 11
- Title
- Part II: Section 101
- Duration
- 03:04
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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12 Part II: Section 106 05:49
- Track
- 12
- Title
- Part II: Section 106
- Duration
- 05:49
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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13 Part II: Section 122 01:10
- Track
- 13
- Title
- Part II: Section 122
- Duration
- 01:10
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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14 Part II: Section 125 01:49
- Track
- 14
- Title
- Part II: Section 125
- Duration
- 01:49
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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15 Part II: Section 130 01:23
- Track
- 15
- Title
- Part II: Section 130
- Duration
- 01:23
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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16 Part II: Section 135 01:20
- Track
- 16
- Title
- Part II: Section 135
- Duration
- 01:20
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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17 Part II: Section 138 01:59
- Track
- 17
- Title
- Part II: Section 138
- Duration
- 01:59
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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18 Part II: Section 145 01:13
- Track
- 18
- Title
- Part II: Section 145
- Duration
- 01:13
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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19 Part II: Section 149 02:01
- Track
- 19
- Title
- Part II: Section 149
- Duration
- 02:01
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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20 Part II: Section 155 01:56
- Track
- 20
- Title
- Part II: Section 155
- Duration
- 01:56
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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21 Part II: Section 161 02:27
- Track
- 21
- Title
- Part II: Section 161
- Duration
- 02:27
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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22 Part II: Section 167 01:42
- Track
- 22
- Title
- Part II: Section 167
- Duration
- 01:42
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg
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23 Part II: Section 168 02:42
- Track
- 23
- Title
- Part II: Section 168
- Duration
- 02:42
- Composer
- Simeon ten Holt
- Performer
- Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg