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Telemann and the Baroque flute: a true synthesis explored through his solo flute fantasias
No full textThis lecture was also given at Sydney Conservatorium of Music on 24 October 2017
Amistad
No full textFor two flutes, duration 6 minutes. Dedicated to Thierry Fischer and Emmanuel Pahud. This piece was first performed on 19 August 2018 by Michael Cox and Joshua Batty at St. John's Smith Square, London
The coroner's report
No full textScored for alto flute (doubling piccolo), contrabassoon, horn, trumpet in Bb, harp, piano (doubling celesta), 2 violins and viola, duration 18 minutes. The Coroner’s Report is the second of three satellite pieces connected with the 2003 music-theatre piece 'Who put Bella in the wych elm?' (see https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1425/), which concerns the unsolved case of a woman’s body found stuffed in a wych elm in the early 1940s by four boys out bird’s nesting. The piece was commissioned by the BBC and first performed on 6 September 2004 at the BBC Proms by the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Nicholas Daniel
Boots of lead
No full textFor alto voice and large ensemble, duration 14 minutes. This piece was commissioned by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group with financial assistance from West Midlands Arts and the BCMG's Sound Investment Scheme. It was first performed on 3 November 2002 by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. A recording of this performance is available on NMC Recordings: https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/simon-holt-boots-of-lead. 'Boots of Lead' forms Part 3 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/); 'Clandestiny' (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1429/); and 'Startled grass' (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1430/)
Dædalus remembers
No full textFor cello soloist and orchestra, duration 18 minutes. Commissioned by the Cheltenham Festival with financial support provided by the Arts Council of England, and premiered on 5 July 1995 by Rohan de Saram (cello) and Sinfonia 21 conducted by Daniel Harding. This work is the third part in the '3 for Icarus' trilogy which also includes Part 1 'Icarus Lamentations' (see https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1436/), and Part 2 'Minotaur Games' (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1437/)
Burlesca oscura
No full textFor clarinet quintet (Bb clarinet doubling bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and double bass), duration 14 minutes. This work was commissioned by the Bath Festival
Seascape
No full textFor oboe, tenor voice, and viola, duration 5 minutes.
This piece was first performed on 21 January 1998 by the Composers Ensemble
Menhir
No full textFor saxophone quartet, duration 18 minutes.
This work was premiered on 18 November 2013 by the Fukio Ensemble (Quino Sáez, Chema Bañuls, Xabier Casal, and Xavier Larsson) at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
A recording of this work, performed by the Fukio Quartet, is now available on October House Records (https://octoberhouserecords.co.uk/albums/jonathan-cole-templum-preview/
Notte oscura [version for piano four hands]
No full textFor piano four hands, duration 6 minutes.
A recording of this piece by the Green Duo (Antoine Francoise, piano, and Robin Green, piano) is available on Prima Facie Records (PFCD095): https://primafacie.ascrecords.com/diatoms.html
Torturous instruments (1998, rev. 2009)
No full textFor chamber ensemble, duration 12 minutes.
Torturous Instruments forms the second work in a trilogy for chamber ensemble entitled TRINITA, the other pieces being Circling Canopy of Night (see https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/204/) and Theatrum (see https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1486/).
Originally composed in 1998, this piece was premiered on 28 May 1998 by the Continuum Ensemble conducted by Philip Headlam and has since been performed by the London Sinfonietta and the RNCM New Ensemble.
It was revised in 2009