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God I wish I could find this exact recording on a music streaming platform. It used to be on Spotify years ago but one day it suddenly got pulled.

Composer's notes: The opening of "The Hague Hacking" refers to an existing piece, which was in my mind while composing, but could not be tracked down immediately. I called a composer friend and sang the melody to him. ‘Liszt!’ he said and, after some thinking, ‘Hungarian Rhapsody No.2’. I did not know the Liszt piano piece but, when one evening I watched some early Tom and Jerry cartoons again, I saw and heard my true source: The Cat Concerto. In the cartoon Tom is the piano virtuoso accompanied by an invisible orchestra. In "The Hague Hacking" the orchestra starts to play, in very slow note values, yet another melody: a once popular sing-along song about the city of The Hague. The whole work, which we could call a Toccata, has been composed with the material of these two melodies. At the end of the piece, as a kind of triumphant denouement, the sing-along song is totally deconstructed by all the musicians. The material for this ‘de-composition’ had been first created in 2003 for my friends, the piano duo of Gerard Bouwhuis and Cees van Zeeland, as an encore for the concert on the occasion of their 25th anniversary. "The Hague Hacking" was written for the matchless pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque. Like the group Hoketus, which I founded in the seventies, they manage to make the hocketing (interlocking) sound as if it is being played by one person. --Louis Andriessen (2008)

Amazing fantastic

1:46 is when it really kicks off for me

very beautifull

I saw this live. It’s the most repetitive and dull classic concert I’ve been in my whole life. No ups, no downs, no solist parts. Absolutely zero passion or goosebumps

Perfection!

I love it

@16:45 This piece of music accompanied me at a time in my life when so much was happening and many things were rearranging themselves. At some points in the track I felt that I was on the right path and that something was guiding me. Years later I knew, I felt back then what positive things were to come.

25:00 ik zet deze even hier voor mezelf

The Faziola Grands sounds fits here well

Eye-watering part, every time: 59:58 onwards for 1 minute.... 😢

this music is more satisfying than 99% contemporary music and 95% so called classical music. My hat is off.

Hoorde het voor het eerst in de 1970's het sloeg me plat en dat doet het nog!

Hi Tara

pure meditation - ty!

キモチぇ

En nog steeds raak ik in een schrijfflow met dit stuk magisch mooie Canto Ostinato.

Mooi en heel bijzonder!

Haven`t heard this one yet! Solid expression of inner and outer tensions and contradictions, yearnings and aspirations!

hello? what is this ending?

I love this

My favorite moments: 31:50 55:20

Peachtig fijne sfeer!

👍

I only discovered Simeon ten Holt recently but I have explored many versions of this composition. This version is absolutely enchanting. Truly a marvel of our age. I am so lucky that RUclips recommended it to me after my previous searches for music.

In the past few weeks, I have heard many interpretations of this music and it never fails to astonish me, in its endless creativity and in the many combinations of instruments. But this version is very heartfelt and moving, tender and engrossing. Bravo.

Are those two black wind instruments at the back contrabassoons?

Marvellous

Marvellous music.

Just amazing synchronicity, bravo!

The alternate name of this tune should be - God versus evil

Voor herhaling vatbaar!

Fabulous performance. Can humans really play so precisely ? And very good sound quality.

Relaxing and hynotic, as beautiful as the rain tapping on a tin roof. My neurons dance !

Muito lindo!🙏❤️💐👏👏👏🇧🇷🖖

The musicianship is rhythmically so accurate The choreography make the dance look seriously traumatized. I didn’t like the abrupt ending and it could have had the usual diminuendo but ending with pipe organ with its more lyrical nature instead of the acoustic guitar. Also the organ should have been used more for sustaining effects throughout to contract percussive nature of piano often nor suitable.

Great piece of work. I keep playing it😅😊😊

terrible sound quality. please improve

Unsurpassable.

What a blessed Celebration into the silents between all the musical Disharmoies & Harmonies! A Majestic Piece of Music & ART! Thank you!

I would have LOVED to be part of this!

It gets cut off. Why? Copyright reasons?

Mooi!

Impresionante la labor de van Veen, interpretando el repertorio _minimalista_

Jullie zijn nog niet eens begonnen of ik heb er al zin in. Wat een mooi werk ook, nu even verder luisteren.

the parts are in the wrong order, 3,2,1. Call me a traditional but I'd like it in sequential order.

the parts are in the wrong order, 3,2,1. Call me a traditional but I'd like it in sequential order.

musical rapture!

Zo bewonderens waard gespeeld heb ik het met grote ecstecy geluisterd. Het heeft mij onschatelijk rust gegeven. Van harte bedankt!!!!