Canto Ostinato is for many a kind of life companion, music that softens you and dispels stress. Sandra and Jeroen van Veen have successfully conveyed that feeling for decades, with the full approval of Simeon te Holt, who praised their performances. Wilma de Rek wrote a biography about the composer in 2012. In 2023 he would have turned 100. In Canto Ostinato, in memoriam Simeon ten Holt, Wilma de Rek interviews the duo Van Veen at the wings, while they illustrate their answers with fragments from Simeon ten Holt’s work; from Canto Ostinato and Aphorism II. After the break, Sandra & Jeroen van Veen will play Canto Ostinato.