Simon Holt: a table of noises

Simon Holt: a table of noisesThis 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 here performed by the prodigiously talented Chlo Hanslip 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

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Release Date: 1st October 2003

Producer: COLIN MATTHEWS

The pieces appear in order of increasing difficulty

supervised by the composer

recorded in the 1990 Almeida Opera production and setting Vincent Deane's libretto of 18th-century Dublin

sad and triumphant – each comprising repeated sections evoking a different and distinct mood

written for violin with reverb

(P) 1999 NMC Recordings Ltd

Alina Ibragimova is the soloist in the Violin Concerto

and Two Scenes from the Death of Count Ugolino

London (Ad ora)