Canto Ostinato / Strings Attached

Just before the Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt changed the secular for something else, he spoke with the Matangi's about a new string quartet to be composed. He felt himself too old to write one, but he advised the members of the quartet to dive into his rich oeuvre for piano and transcribe them for stringquartet themselves. In doing so, all the possibilities of the string instruments had to be used in particular; from ponicello to pizzicato and from sul tasto to battuto. And so they did!