Ten Holt: Méandres
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- 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, Méandres 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.
Composer: Simeon ten Holt
Artist: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg (piano)
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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 Méandres 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, Méandres is both post-modern and timeless as an extension of piano literature.
Tracklist:
00:00:00 Méandres: Section 1
00:04:36 Méandres: Section 8
00:13:06 Méandres: Section 21
00:14:56 Méandres: Section 31
00:16:02 Méandres: Section 37
00:18:37 Méandres: Section 42
00:23:24 Méandres: Section 53
00:32:45 Méandres: Section 74
00:38:42 Méandres: Section 87
00:40:24 Méandres: Section 88
00:43:53 Méandres: Section 101
00:46:57 Méandres: Section 106
00:52:47 Méandres: Section 122
00:53:57 Méandres: Section 125
00:55:46 Méandres: Section 130
00:57:10 Méandres: Section 135
00:58:30 Méandres: Section 138
01:00:30 Méandres: Section 145
01:01:43 Méandres: Section 149
01:03:44 Méandres: Section 155
01:05:40 Méandres: Section 161
01:08:08 Méandres: Section 167
01:09:50 Méandres: Section 168
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Composer: Simeon ten Holt
Artist: Polo de Haas, Kees Wieringa, Ellen Dijkhuizen, Fred Oldenburg (piano)
00:00:00 Méandres: Section 1
00:04:36 Méandres: Section 8
00:13:06 Méandres: Section 21
00:14:56 Méandres: Section 31
00:16:02 Méandres: Section 37
00:18:37 Méandres: Section 42
00:23:24 Méandres: Section 53
00:32:45 Méandres: Section 74
00:38:42 Méandres: Section 87
00:40:24 Méandres: Section 88
00:43:53 Méandres: Section 101
00:46:57 Méandres: Section 106
00:52:47 Méandres: Section 122
00:53:57 Méandres: Section 125
00:55:46 Méandres: Section 130
00:57:10 Méandres: Section 135
00:58:30 Méandres: Section 138
01:00:30 Méandres: Section 145
01:01:43 Méandres: Section 149
01:03:44 Méandres: Section 155
01:05:40 Méandres: Section 161
01:08:08 Méandres: Section 167
01:09:50 Méandres: Section 168
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Really like this sort of piano. Thankyou for this, I had never heard of Holt.
Of only there was a minimalist, repetitive, yet soothing, piece of music to listen to on my way home so that I could feel like I was the star of a Jacques Tati film.
Yes....or even of that Le Théâtre de Babylone production of 'Waiting for Godot'.....Cheers from Acapulco!
@@steveegallo3384 Cheers!
Es ist alles,jedoch nicht langweilig 🤞🤗☘️❣️
Maravilhoso!
Add this to the list of classical albums that use the sane art as Dead Can Dance
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Wow!!! I'm blown away! Thank you BC!
Lindo
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It's boring, I like it
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Thanks BC for posting Meandres, a rare piece by ten Holt I didn’t know existed. Unfortunately, the more I listen to it the more I tire of the piano sound. This is especially true of the forte sections. Maybe four pianists is just too much piano?
I mean, it IS called "Méandres"...
beethoven
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No, I don’t like it, it’s boring.
I think it's wonderful.