This is the study score for Simon Holt's Sueños scored for Bass-Baritone soloist and Instrumental Ensemble. Commissioned by the South Bank Centre it was first performed on 5th November 2007 at the QueenElizabeth Hall by the London Sinfonietta. Sueños is a setting of six Antonio Machado poems which are predominantly about dreams. The work lasts around 25 minutes and is comprised of 8movements…

Canciones are three Spanish songs; A love song a setting of Cancione de Jinete by Lorca and a lyric set to music by composer Simon Holt. The outer poems are anonymous but are cited byLorca in his essay on 'Duende' which can be roughly translated as the creative spirit.

Simon Holt's 3rd Quartet is the third of six pieces which make up a cycle with the overall title 'Terrain'. Lasting around 23 minutes this wonderful work is arranged for String Quartet and wasco-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust NMC Recordings Internationales Musikfestival Heidelberger Fruhling and Wigmore Hall. The premiere was performed on 19th January 2015. This is the set of parts for 2 V…

For Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (Clarinet in A Viola Cello and Double Bass).This extended version of a knot of time was commissioned by Faith Wilson. First performance on 10th OCtober at the CBSO Centre Birmingham by Sarah Leonard (Soprano) and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Richard Baker.''a knot of time' began its life in 1992 as a piece for the Composer's Ensemble for …

Simon Holt's Bagatelarañas for Wind Quintet. Composed in 2010. Duration: 15 minutes

The Libretto for Simon Holt's The Nightingale's To Blame Co-commissioned by Opera North Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Munich Biennale

For Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (Clarinet in A Viola Cello and Double Bass).This extended version of a knot of time was commissioned by Faith Wilson. First performance on 10th OCtober at the CBSO Centre Birmingham by Sarah Leonard (Soprano) and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Richard Baker.''a knot of time' began its life in 1992 as a piece for the Composer's Ensemble for …

POD-Darling Eve In The Evil Garden is a sequence of five pieces for Piano by Simon Holt. The work was commissioned by Joseph Houston and first performed by him on 10th December 2015 at St John'sSmith Square London. A full performance lasts around 8 minutes. ‘This is not music for the faint hearted and perhaps only the most super-charged of pianistic virtuosos could have any hope of bringin…

Kites is scored for wind quintet and string quintet and came about through Holt's interest in Japanese things. The kite that features is preceded by an introduction of fragile slow and serene scene-setting music. Like Kites Holt's musical ideas are objects defined by the forces within them; intervals dynamic intensities and tensions between different instruments and registers. Many of these…

For Alexander Jessiman on the occasion of his fifth birthday from his uncle Simon.Written for piccolo bass flute trumpet and keyed glockenspiel. The piece last about 5 seconds.