Amistad (the Spanish word for friendship) is a brief set of three pieces for two Flutes composed by Simon Holt in May 2013. It takes its form from the three syllables of the word a-mi-stad. Thefirst piece begins on the note A and the second piece on E (-mi-) and the final movement has four sections of equal length which take the individual letters as their respective starting points; S (Eb/D#) T …

All Fall Down by British composer Simon Holt was commissioned by the Nash Ensemble in 1994 and revised in 2008. This is the study score and is arranged for Chamber Ensemble lasting around 9minutes. The title takes its name from the traditional plague rhyme Ring A Ring O'Roses which struck Holt as he was writing the piece as entirely appropriate although not altogetherexplicable. It was first …

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…

Migas is a selection of pieces composed over 33 years by, British Composer, Simon Holt . Migas translates, in English, to Crumbs . This collection of 11 brief Piano pieces was written over a period of 33 years, most of them for the pianists Rolf Hind and Andrew Zolinsky . / Piano

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. The six different compositions…

Simon Holt's the man in the wind and the west moon was composed for Solo Harp in 2013 having been commissioned by The Tanza Trust. The piece takes its title from a line in a DylanThomas poem named 'And death shall have no dominion'. The four sections of the work see shifting harmonies throughout with the first section repeating but also changing ever so subtly. The unique thing about the piec…

Era Madrugada is a work by Simon Holt for Chamber Ensemble commissioned by the Royal Institute of British Architects and first performed on 24th May 1984 at BBC Portland Place Concert Hall London by theNash Ensemble. This is the study score. Era Madrugada is inspired by the poem 'Suprise' by prominent Spanish poet Federico Garc a Lorca.

Commissioned by The Bath Festival. 'If the idea behind the piece comes from anywhere the 'Disparates' (Follies) of Goya were certainly at the back of my mind when writing. The Goya images are nightmarish and the meaning ofmany is obscure. They are essentially sardonic and include allusions to witchcraft and to bizarre carnival festivities.' Simon Holt.