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St Vitus in the kettle
No full textScored for wind, brass, percussion and harp with 6 double basses, duration 5.5 minutes. The piece is dedicated to John Fosbrook and Madeleine Bradbury-Rance, and was premiered on 22 January 2009 by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Thierry Fischer in Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff. A recording by the Hallé Orchestra is available on NMC Recordings (NMC D218): https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/simon-holt-a-table-of-noises
5 settings of E.D.
No full textSettings of poetry by Emily Dickinson, for countertenor (or mezzo soprano) and oboe, duration 10 minutes. Completed in 2005 and published in 2016, the piece was commissioned by Bill and Elizabeth Colleran, and first performed in April 2006 by David James (countertenor) and Melinda Maxwell (oboe and cor anglais)
Mantis
No full textFor viola or tenor saxophone, duration 3 minutes. Premiered by Roger Chase (viola), who also commissioned the piece, on 16 February 2009 at the Stradivari Music and Arts Center, Chicago, USA.
This work can be performed as the sixth part of the 'Terrain' cycle of six pieces (see https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1462/). The other pieces in the cycle are 'String Sextet: the torturer's horse' (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1402/); 'Everything turns away' (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1396/); '3rd Quartet' (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/184/); 'Amapolas' (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1404/); and 'Telarañas' (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1403/). For further details on the Terrain cycle see: https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/54406/Terrain--Simon-Holt/
*** A recording of this work by Carl Raven (saxophone) is available on Turquoise Coconut Records here: https://carlraven.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-saxophones **
The other side of silence
No full textFor alto flute (doubling piccolo), harp and viola, duration 18 minutes.
This piece is connected with the music-theatre work 'Who put Bella in the wych elm?' (see https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1425/), and has three movements, all titled with quotes from the music-theatre piece: 1. waiting for hummingbirds, 2. the scratching twigs, 3. sickle moon. It was commissioned by the Nash Ensemble and premiered on 12 July 2004 at the Cheltenham Music Festival
Startled grass
No full textFor female chorus (6 sopranos and 6 altos with a handbell each), 2 percussionists, harp and solo cello, duration 11 minutes. This piece was commissioned by the BBC, and first performed on 29 November 2001 by the BBC Singers conducted by Stephen Betteridge at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. It is the fifth and final part of the cycle 'A ribbon of time' which takes the poetry of Emily Dickinson as its starting point. The other pieces in the cycle are 'Sunrise' yellow noise' (see https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1426/); 'Two movements for string quartet' (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1427/); 'Boots of lead' (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1428/); and 'Clandestiny' (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1429/)
Capriccio spettrale (1988 rev. 2008)
No full textScored for large ensemble: flute (doubling alto flute), clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), horn in F, trumpet in C (doubling piccolo trumpet in A), two violins, two violas, cello and double bass. Duration 12 minutes.
Capriccio Spettrale is based on the etchings of the same name by Francisco de Goya.
This piece was originally commissioned by Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart, and won the Performing Rights Society Composers Award and the Royal Philharmonic Society Charles Heidsieck Award. It was revised for Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in 2008 with support from the Sound Investment scheme
The ruin
No full textFor mezzo soprano soloist and large ensemble, duration 18 minutes. This piece was formerly known as "Wyrdchanging" and was a finalist in the Politis Prize, Boston University, 1981
Ouroboros I
No full textFor chamber orchestra, duration 16 minutes.
This work was commissioned by the London Sinfonietta for the 'State of the Nation' 1999. It was first performed by the London Sinfonietta conducted by Martyn Brabbins on 10 April 1999
Temporale distante (penumbra II)
No full textFor orchestra, duration 13 minutes.
This work was commissioned by RAI Torino and premiered on 26 February 2004 conducted by Pascal Rophé
Un-veiled litanies
No full textFor chamber ensemble, duration 16 minutes.
A recording by New Perspectives Ensemble conducted by Timothy Lines is available on the audio tab below