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Simon Holt
12+ albums
composercontemporary classicalJumainstrumentalengland
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Simon Holt (born February 21, 1958, Bolton, England) is a British composer. Simon Holt was educated at Bolton School. Shortly after graduating from the Royal Northern College of Music, he became firmly established on the new music circuit with a series of commissions and fruitful collaborations with the London Sinfonietta and the Nash Ensemble. Influenced by Messiaen, Xenakis and Feldman as well as visual artists such as Goya, Giacometti and Brancusi, his music is complex, dramatic and often enigmatic. The intricate internal structures of his works are concealed by a seemingly impulsive nature. During the 1980s he worked primarily in complex soundworlds, while since the 1990s the dense textures have often been offset by Feldmanesque moments of calm, that Holt refers to as ‘still centres’. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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String Quartet No. 3: I. Matins
2452St Vitus in the Kettle
1393String Quartet No. 3: II. Wu Ping's Nail House
684String Quartet No. 3: IV. Expensive Delicate Ship
605String Quartet No. 3: III. A Ladder to the Moon
546String Quartet No. 3: VI. Night's Mantle Descends
547A Table Of Noises: I. Jute
488String Quartet No. 3: V. The Forsaken Cry
489A Table Of Noises: II. Ghost One
3710A Table Of Noises: IV. Ghost Two
33albums
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Bracing Change
Holt: A Table of Noises, St. Vitus in the Kettle & Witness to a Snow Miracle
A Book of Colours
Holt: a book of colours
Frozen Rivers Flows - New Noise
Holt: ...Era Madrugada, Canciones, Shadow Realm & Sparrow Night
Notes for Pierre
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The NMC Songbook
Boots of Lead – Feet of Clay (Live)
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Sound Census
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Heinen, Ulrich: Baroque and Contemporary Music for Solo Cello
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Bach Plus