Canto Ostinato (Version for Solo Harp) by Gwyneth Wentink

Simeon ten Holt

Gwyneth Wentink

Canto Ostinato (Version for Solo Harp)

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Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212090725
Catnr: SIGCD 907
Release date: 24 May 2024
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Signum Classics

UPC
0635212090725

Catalogue number
SIGCD 907

Release date
24 May 2024

"Canto fans will cheer at her arrangement: harp strings soften the sound and create a meditative aura. In the meantime, Wentink's performance offers skeptics a second chance. She cunningly highlights opposing voices and rhythms, as if Canto ostinato is simply rock-solid music."

De Volkskrant, 20-6-2024

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In a new arrangement for solo harp, celebrated harpist Gwyneth Wentink presents Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt’s Canto Ostinato and Aforisme No. 2 (a transcription by Jeroen van Veen on behalf of Simeon ten Holt). “I first heard Canto Ostinato on piano in 2011 and I felt as if I was on fire. THIS is something I wanted to play on the harp: I clearly recall the zeal and enthusiasm I felt at the time. I was buzzing with curiosity, excitement and vitality. Exploring various musical genres, arranging music for the harp and working in interdisciplinary settings is something that has always been important to me. Playing the harp, one is being confronted with a rather restricted repertoire, and one almost evidently scans the horizon for what else one can arrange, commission and/or discover” – Gwyneth Wentink.

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Gwyneth Wentink (harp)

Gwyneth is an internationally acclaimed harpist and cultural entrepreneur working across many genre and roles. She is founder of Foundation Harp, a performance platform which produced the audio visual productions ANAHATA, Canto Ostinato Audio Visual and In Code. Canto Ostinato Audio Visual has toured extensively worldwide. As a leading harpist both classical and experimental, Gwyneth Wentink has performed at world’s most prestigious stages as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, the Royal Albert Hall and Royal Opera Hall in London and the Konzerthaus in Berlin, among others. Wentink holds a position as solo harpist of the Orchestra Revolutionaire et Romantique and the English Baroque Soloists under Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Praised for her versatility, Wentink introduced the harp into classical Indian...

Gwyneth is an internationally acclaimed harpist and cultural entrepreneur working across many genre and roles.

She is founder of Foundation Harp, a performance platform which produced the audio visual productions ANAHATA, Canto Ostinato Audio Visual and In Code. Canto Ostinato Audio Visual has toured extensively worldwide.

As a leading harpist both classical and experimental, Gwyneth Wentink has performed at world’s most prestigious stages as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, the Royal Albert Hall and Royal Opera Hall in London and the Konzerthaus in Berlin, among others.

Wentink holds a position as solo harpist of the Orchestra Revolutionaire et Romantique and the English Baroque Soloists under Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Praised for her versatility, Wentink introduced the harp into classical Indian music, and plays regularly with the greats like Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia.

Wentink has won numerous prizes, including the Dutch Music Award, the highest distinction awarded to musicians in The Netherlands, the Israel Harp Competition and the Young Concert Artists Audition in New York. In 2019 Wentink has been appointed as new member of the prestigious Society of Arts in The Netherlands.

As a dedicated and passionate teacher, Gwyneth is visiting guest professor at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and the Royal Academy of Music in London and gives masterclasses all over the world.

Additionally, Wentink is a professional certified coach by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and a qualified yoga instructor (RYT200 - Yoga Alliance)

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Simeon ten Holt

Composer and pianist Simeon ten Holt was born in Bergen, the Netherlands, in 1923. He studied piano and theory with Jakob van Domselaer, whose influence is considerable, as shown from his first compositions.
In 1968 Ten Holt founded the Werkgroep Bergen Hedendaagse Muziek (Working Group Contemporary Music Bergen). For this working group he organized concerts solely devoted to contemporary music.
Ten Holt's considerable oeuvre can be divided into three periods. During the first period, he developed his own method to come to terms with the concepts of tonality and atonality in reaction to the tonal influence of Van Domselaer. This method, the diagonal idea, resulted in the compositions Diagonaalsuite (1957), Diagonaalsonate (1959) and Diagonaalmuziek (1956-1958).
In his second period, from 1961 to 1970, he became influenced by serialism, and he also eventually writes a number of electronic works.
In the third period, which began in the seventies, Ten Holt returned to the piano, the instrument with which his career as a composer started. The major composition of this period, Canto Ostinato, became a great success. He subsequently wrote more piano pieces that are based on the same ideas of repetition and tonality, such as Lemniscaat (1983), Horizon (1985) and Méandres (1999).
Ten Holt passed away in 2012.

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Canto fans will cheer at her arrangement: harp strings soften the sound and create a meditative aura. In the meantime, Wentink's performance offers skeptics a second chance. She cunningly highlights opposing voices and rhythms, as if Canto ostinato is simply rock-solid music.
De Volkskrant, 20-6-2024