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Alexander
No full textThree songs for actors and ensemble, duration 15 minutes.
This work was commissioned by SplitMoon Theatre, and was workshopped and first performed on 11-13 March 2014, Jerwood Space, London
Wonderoom
No full textFor ensemble (clarinet, saxophone, basoon, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussionists, harp, violin, viola, cello), duration 15 mins. This piece was written for the London Sinfonietta, for the Blue Touch Paper Scheme, funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Musical migrants: refugee musicians from Nazi Germany and Austria in Britain
No full textLecture-recital given at King's College London, exploring the legacy of musicians who emigrated from Germany and Austria in the 1930s and settled in Britain.
The lecture told the stories of some of these musicians, including the pianists Ferdinand Rauter and Paul Hamburger, the conductor/composers Peter Gellhorn and Karl Rankl as well as the composer and academic Hans Gál, who created the brilliant revue ‘What a Life!” during British internment on the Isle of Man in 1940.
The recital included a selection of songs from this revue as well as Lieder and English Songs written by these composers before and after their emigration.
Also discussed was the protectionist policy of the Incorporated Society of Musicians that campaigned to prevent these refugees from ‘taking the bread out of the mouth of native musicians’ as well as ideas from the book ‘The Freedom of the Migrant’ by the philosopher Vilém Flusser
Disparate
No full textFor solo oboe, duration 6 minutes. This piece was first performed by Melinda Maxwell at the opening of the Kings Place concert hall in London's Kings Cross on 1 October 2008.
A recording is available on NMC Recordings (NMC D160): https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/endymion-sound-census
Diatoms (I-IV): the four horsemen
No full textFor two pianos, duration 16 minutes. This piece was written for the Green piano duo (Antoine Francoise and Robin Green) and premiered by them on 14 September 2012 at the Biennale Bern Festival.
A recording is available on Prima Facie Records (PFCD095): https://primafacie.ascrecords.com/diatoms.htm
Shadow realm
No full textFor clarinet, harp, and cello, duration 8 minutes. Commissioned by the Nash Ensemble, this piece has also been performed by CHROMA Ensemble and the London Sinfonietta. A recording by the Nash Ensemble is available on NMC Recordings (NMC D008): https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/simon-holt-era-madrugada.The title of this work comes from a poem of the same name by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Ballad of the black sorrow (1988, rev. 2006)
No full textFor vocal soloists (two sopranos, mezzo soprano, tenor, baritone, and bass) and chamber ensemble, duration 13 minutes. A setting of 'Romance de la pena negra' (Ballad of the black sorrow) by Federico García Lorca, this piece was commissioned by the London Sinfonietta for its 20th anniversary season
Terrain
No full text'Terrain' consists of six individual works which have been written so they can be presented as a whole. Instrumentation is from string sextet down to solo viola and the duration of the whole work is 1 hour 12 minutes.
Each work is available separately, please see individual work pages for full details.
The six individual works are as follows:
'String Sextet: the torturer's horse,' 16 minutes (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1402/);
'Everything turns away' (piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass), 8 minutes (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1396/);
'3rd Quartet,' 23 minutes (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/184/);
'Amapolas' (string trio), 11 minutes (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1404/);
'Telarañas' (violin and cello), 11 minutes (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1403/);
'Mantis' (viola solo), 3 minutes (https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1416/)
The cloud of unknowing
No full textFor symphonic wind band, duration 12 minutes.
This piece was commissioned by Hilary and Timothy Reynish in memory of their third son William. It was premiered on 6 May 2005 by the Royal College of Music Wind Orchestra conducted by Timothy Reynish