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Dark crossing
No full textFor chamber orchestra, duration 20 minutes. This work was commissioned by the London Sinfonietta and the Europäischer Musikmonat Basel, and was premiered on 12 November 2001 by the London Sinfonietta conducted by Oliver Knussen
About time
No full textFor ensemble and period instruments, duration 12 minutes. This work was commissioned by BBC2 Television, and premiered on 12 December 1999 by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Simon Rattle at Ely Cathedral
Silent cities
No full textVariants surrounding a tune by John Scofield for orchestra, duration 20 minutes. This work was commissioned by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and was premiered on 5 December 1998 at Orchard Hall, Toyko, conducted by Kazushi Ono. Other orchestras who have performed this piece include the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, the Göteborgs Symfoniker, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk, the Aarhus Symfoniorkester, the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, and the Het Residentie Orkest.
A recording by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin is available on Chandos (CHAN 10018), see https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2010018
Still sleeping
No full textFor orchestra, duration 6 minutes.
This work was commissioned by Performing Arts Education at the Royal Festival Hall, and first performed on 3 April 1998 by Ealing Youth Orchestra conducted by Mark Gooding. It has since been performed by other youth orchestras including Harrow Young Musicians Philharmonic and the Dorset Youth Orchestra. 'Still Sleeping' also forms the third movement of 'Evening Songs' which has been recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski (LPO-0007) see https://www.lpo.org.uk/recordings-and-gifts/24-cd-turnage-scherzoid-evening-songs-etc.html. This recording is also available on YouTube (see the video tab below).
For more details on 'Evening Songs' see https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1947/
English songs by Karl Rankl
No full textA workshop and performance exploring the little known English songs written by Karl Rankl (1898 - 1968) during World War II in Oxford. A Schönberg pupil and friend of Hanns Eisler, Rankl became the first music director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden after the war.
Norbert Meyn (Royal College of Music) and Joseph Breinl (Kunstuniversitaet Graz) explored Rankl's songs in this workshop with singers and pianists from the RCM and Ensemble Émigré, culminating in an informal concert of selected songs.
This workshop took place at the Austrian Cultural Forum, London, in October 2017
Love of Lieder: tracing the Jewish journey through 19th and 20th century German song [study course]
No full textA study course with Norbert Meyn, Cathy Heller-Jones and musicians from Ensemble Émigré, tracing Jewish connections and intercultural mobility in the art of Lieder.
Incorporating live performance, this study course explored the role of Jewish figures in the development of the art of Lieder. Each session focused on a small group of composers from a particular period, beginning with Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, going on to Mahler, Zemlinski and Schönberg, Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler, Robert Kahn and composers like Hans Gál and Karl Rankl, who emigrated to Britain from Germany and Austria and continued the tradition by setting English poetry to their music. The course examined how their creativity and professional careers were affected by the political, social and religious climate of their time.
Sessions were held on 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th November, 2018 at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London, and the series was part of B'nai B'rith UK's European Days of Jewish Culture & Heritage
String sextet: the torturer's horse
No full textFor string sextet, duration 16 minutes. This work was commissioned by the Nash Ensemble with funds provided by Wigmore Hall and PRS for Music Foundation. It was first performed by the Nash Ensemble at Wigmore Hall, London, on 23 March 2011. This piece can be performed as the first part of the 'Terrain' cycle of six pieces (see https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1462/). The other pieces in the cycle are '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/); 'Telarañas' (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1403/); and 'Mantis' (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1416/). For further details on the Terrain cycle see: https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/54406/Terrain--Simon-Holt/
The sharp end of night
No full textFor solo violin, duration 7 minutes. The music is derived from the violin part of the 2003 music-theatre piece 'Who put Bella in the Wych elm?' Written for David Alberman and first performed by him on 19 November 2005 at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Witness to a snow miracle
No full textConcerto for violin and orchestra, duration 23 minutes. This piece was commissioned by the BBC and first performed on 18 February 2006 by Viviane Hagner (violin) and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Nott at the Barbican Hall, London. It is based on the life of Saint Eulalia, the virgin martyr, and is formed of seven short movements:
1. Eulalia of Merida [violin solo]
2. the tearing, the burning
3. flames become birds
4. snowfall on ashes
5. witness
6. torments
7. halo.
A recording by Chloë Hanslip and the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon is available on NMC Recordings (NMC D218): https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/simon-holt-a-table-of-noises