Canto Ostinato, music that moves
Also thanks to Ramon Gieling's recent documentary Over Canto Simeon ten Holt's masterpiece has raised a lot of interest from audiences in the Netherlands as well as abroad. For yours truly it means an enormous increase in demand for the live CD-recording.
Meanwhile the animation that will be projected, preferably on a huge screen, at performances of Canto has been completed. Watch a clip here. (For bookings: niko@nikovandijk.nl)



A remarkable CD, this recording of Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt. Remarkable, because it is played on 1 piano for the first time, as it is usually performed on 2 or 4. And yet, perhaps not all that remarkable since Ten Holt himself used to play the piece in the 1 piano version some 30 years ago. Because there is no need to coordinate cues with other players, the piece sounds more exciting, more organic and more improvised than ever before. Order the CD Canto Ostinato here.

Bach Cycle
Between 1997 and 2007 pianist Ivo Janssen recorded the complete keyboard works of J.S. Bach. In 1998 the first recording was released: the Goldberg Variations (VOID9801), in 2007 the 13-volume cycle was completed with the release of The Art of Fugue (VOID9809). This series of recordings has not gone unnoticed in the Netherlands, nor abroad. Numerous very positive reviews appeared in magazines, not only in the Netherlands, but also in Germany, France, the United States etc. Ivo Janssen is meanwhile internationally regarded an esteemed Bach interpreter.
The box with this unique and complete collection of Bach recordings has been released in May 2011: 20 discs, 191 BWV-nummers, 509 tracks, 23 hours and 12 minutes of Bach. The BACH-BOX can be ordered here.

Bach and Handel; the duel
Bach never met Georg Friedrich Handel, but in the theatre anything is possible, and so Anita van Soest, Arthur Boni, Wim Meuwissen and Ivo Janssen created a performance, based on the successful play by Paul Barz, in which these 2 gentlemen and their music do in fact meet. A certain Schmitt - servant of Handel - plays a small role, but mostly a lot of music. Read more

Jubileum! Enquist & Janssen 10 years!
In the spring of 2001 Ivo Janssen and Anna Enquist started their collaboration with a program combining Chopin's preludes and poetry by Enquist, in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. In the following years they made several other programs, such as Schumann's Kinderszenen and poems about children, a Prokofiev war sonata with a monologue on the bombing of Rotterdam and more recently Bach's Goldberg variations with fragments from the novel Counterpoint. Enquist en Janssen appeared on radio and TV, made 4 CDs and gave hundreds of concerts in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Belgium and France.