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Posted by Dominy Clements on September 6, 2007, 11:57 am, in reply to "http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2007/Aug07/Holt_ktc1317.htm"
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This recording first appeared on Donemus' own label, and was all the rage in cultured parts of The Netherlands at the time. http://www.donemus.nl/cd_detail.php?id=17 I agree with the 'meditative' qualities of the piece, but with the multiple discs it does feel like juggling with stacks of 45 rpm records, as we used to in the old days! The score reads as bars or phrases, the number of repeats of each bar or section partially left to the musicians, hence the variation between versions. The Brilliant Classics box also has works like 'Horizon' and 'Lemniscaat' which use the same or similar techniques, but never quite achieved the same 'hit' quality as 'Canto Ostinato'. Holt's earlier piano works are also worth a listen - being nothing like these extended piano landscapes.
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