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Troubled light
No full textFor orchestra, duration 21 minutes. Commissioned by the BBC and premiered at the BBC Proms on 25 July 2008 by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Thierry Fischer. The piece has five movements: 1. the fell of dark, 2. rudhira, 3. Ellsworth, 4. Huye luna, luna, luna, 5. Mehr Licht.
A recording by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Thierry Fischer is available on YouTube (see the video tab below)
Feet of clay
No full textFor solo cello, duration 15 minutes. This work was commissioned by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and first performed on 24 November 2003 by Ulrich Heinen at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. A recording of this piece by Ulrich Heinen is available on NMC Recordings (NMC D094): https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/simon-holt-boots-of-lead
Walking with the river's roar (1991, rev. 2006)
No full textConcerto for viola and orchestra, duration 20 minutes. This piece was commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Proms and premiered there on 21 July 1992 by Nobuko Imai (viola) and the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier. Originally completed in 1991, it was revised in 2006
Kites
No full textFor chamber ensemble: flute (doubling piccolo), oboe (doubling cor anglais), clarinet in A, bassoon, horn in F, two violins, viola, cello, and double bass, duration 15 minutes.
This work was commissioned by the London Sinfonietta and first performed on 13 April 1983 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, conducted by Antony Pay. It has since been performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Aventa, and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
Kites has been recorded by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group on NMC Recordings (NMC D094): https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/simon-holt-boots-of-lead
Sorful ter
No full textA setting of two medieval poems for soprano and piano, duration 7 minutes.
This work was first performed on 19 September 1997 by Cara McHardy (soprano) accompanied by the composer, at the Tracy Chadwell Memorial Concert at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
The SoundCloud recording on the audio tab below is by Esther Mallett (soprano)
Assassin hair
No full textFor mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra, duration 16 minutes. This work was commissioned by the BBC and premiered on 16 May 2002 by the London Sinfonietta conducted by Oliver Knussen with Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano)
Brood
No full textFor Bb clarinet and viola, duration 2 minutes.
This piece was commissioned for Simon Bainbridge's 50th birthday concert, and the first performance was given on 27 September 2002 by Endymion at St John's Smith Square
Quicksilver
No full textFor two Bb clarinets (2nd doubling bass), piano and percussion, duration 10 minutes.
This piece was commissioned by the Oxford Contemporary Music Festival and given its first performance on 25 October 1997 by the OFCM Ensemble conducted by Stefan Asbury at the Jaqueline Du Pre Concert Hall
Rude mood
No full textFor french horn, trombone, two trumpets, and tuba, duration 7 minutes.
This piece was first performed on 11 June 1997 by the Law Brass Quintet at the Spitalfields Festival