Search - Simeon Ten Holt, Bouwhuis, Carl :: Canto Ostinato for Keyboards

An experience...

Maaike de Groot | Purmerend, The Netherlands | 06/26/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Canto Ostinato: in fact there are no words for this music! You cannot listen to it as you can with other music. It is an experience not comparable to other experiences at all. This is music to drown yourself in. You become transformed. In a trance-like state you feel everything there is to feel: hope, sadness, happiness and anxiety. The chair in which you sit, is disappearing. Everything around you is disappearing. There is only this never-ending music with its subtle, hypnotizing changes, everytime when it almost becomes too much for you. This is the unbearable lightness of being: in music."

Guided improvisations to trance

Renier Bormans | The Netherlands | 09/21/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Ten Holt has written a piece for 7 hands. Two main bars are for the right and left hand. This could be played by one keyboard/piano. But additional ones have been added and when more people get together endless variations of the same theme are possible. Especially since each measure is to be repeated by the pianist as he pleases. In the most ideal situation this piece will sound the same, yet completely different every time it is played. No wonder that this is a live recording. It's a shame that it doesn't fit on one CD since it calls ones attention to vulgar things as CD players when one should be completely immersed in this wonderfull music. Ofcourse with endless repetation one risks becoming obtuse and mindless, but this piece just keeps on sparkling and tickling the mind."

Experience it

B. R. A. Gulien | Amsterdam | 11/13/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Experience it. You have to experience this music. It cannot be listened to. You have to be immersed into this trancelike music.
If you like Philip Glass, you will like Canto Ostinato.
It's not the same, but the general idea applies"