DCV 340 – Simeon ten Holt: Palimpsest (OSO)

DCV 005 Simeon ten Holt Horizon Polo de Haas, Yoko Abe, Fred Oldenburg and Margaret Krill

In 2023, the Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt would have turned 100. For this occasion, Sandra & Jeroen van Veen will perform his most famous work: Canto Ostinato. The composer preferred their performance to the other existing piano versions. In 2016 Sandra and Jeroen van Veen even received a 10 x Golden Record.

After the resounding success of the Canto Ostinato, Matangi ventures into another masterpiece by Simeon ten Holt in the Ten Holt year. The Palimpsest string septet knows how to touch, move and amaze the soul.

January 24th marks exactly 100 years since Simeon ten Holt was born. He became best known to the general public for his composition Canto Ostinato. KunstNetTV made a short film portrait about Simeon ten Holt in 2012.

The Simeon Quartet will play the Canto Ostinato for you. The Canto consists of 106 sections of several bars in B-flat minor. In the end it was composer Andries Hubers who combined the sections into a score. After that, ten Holt often edited the score, eventually resulting in several versions of the piece.

After the resounding success of the Canto Ostinato, Matangi ventures into another masterpiece by Simeon ten Holt in the Ten Holt 100-year. The string septet Palimpsest (from 1993) knows how to touch, move and bewilder the soul. Immerse yourself in the magical world of Ten Holt.

Performance of Canto Ostinato by the Mader Nort Art Group which is formed by the students of the St.

In the recently painted St. Vitus Church on the Melkpad, the meditative sounds of the Canto Ostinato, the masterpiece of composer Simeon ten Holt, will soon be heard. Those interested can, if desired, lying on a mat they brought themselves, enjoy the music.

Innovative, controversial and inspiring but above all a pioneer, Simeon ten Holt can undoubtedly be considered one of the most important Dutch composers of the 20th century. The “Canto Ostinato” is regularly performed by pianists and symphony orchestras from all over the world.

DCV 503 Simeon ten Holt Canto Ostinato Victor Kraus, Victor Kraus Group, Emre Sevindik, Michel de Souza and Pit Brosius

Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt will be performed on three piano’s by Trio Ostinato in Huis Wylerberg, Beek-Ubbergen.

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.

Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.