Halle / Colin Currie / Chloe H - Simon Holt: A Table Of Noises [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.This fourth, full-length album of music by multi award-winning composer Simon Holt on NMC showcases his highly narrative orchestral compositions. His violin concerto witness to a snow miracle u2013 here performed by the prodigiously talented Chloxeb Hanslip u2013 depicts the story of the life, and particularly gruesome death, of St Eulalia of Merida. From the initial, frenzied cadenza in the solo violin we get a sense of the torment and horror the saint suffered at the hands of the Romans: her flesh torn with hooks, flames applied to the wounds, and her body buried in hot coals. A blanket of snow fell on her ashes, at which point she was declared a saint.rr

Holt's other award-winning concerto on this album is a much more upbeat and quirky affair. Written for and performed on this recording by one of the world's finest percussionists, Colin Currie, a table of noises introduces us to Holt's taxidermist great uncle Ashworth, a kind of maverick scientist-cum-collector. Currie says 'this percussion concerto exuberantly tears up the manual on how to approach the medium and I am thrilled with the idiosyncratic, adventurous results'. The soloist is seated on a cajon (a box-shaped instrument often used in flamenco), and apart from the xylophone and glockenspiel, all the other instruments are laid out on a table in front of the soloist; hence the title. Each brief movement has a descriptive title (eg. a drawer full of eyes (discovered by Holt's mother in Ash's bedroom tallboy and Skennin' Mary (a neighbour with a glass eye that spun when she became angry) and is linked by five 'ghost' orchestral interludes.rr

The short, dazzling, orchestral work St Vitus in the kettle was commissioned by BBC National Orchestra of Wales during Holt's tenure as Composer-in-Association (2008-2014). The grisly end for this saint was a cauldron of boiling hot lead!

Simon Holt: a table of noises I JUTE

Simon Holt: a table of noises II ghost one

Simon Holt: a table of noises III fly

Simon Holt: a table of noises IV ghost two

Simon Holt: a table of noises V a drawer full of eyes

Simon Holt: a table of noises VI ghost three

Simon Holt: a table of noises VII Skenninu2019 Mary

Simon Holt: a table of noises VIII ghost four

Simon Holt: a table of noises IX table top / ghost five

Simon Holt: a table of noises X under glass

Simon Holt: St Vitus in the kettle

Simon Holt: witness to a snow miracle I Eulalia of Merida

Simon Holt: witness to a snow miracle II the tearing, the burning

Simon Holt: witness to a snow miracle III flames become birds

Simon Holt: witness to a snow miracle IV snowfall on ashes

Simon Holt: witness to a snow miracle V witness

Simon Holt: witness to a snow miracle VI torments

Simon Holt: witness to a snow miracle VII halo

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