Holt, Simon
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The NMC Songbook
RecommendedSopranos - Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton
Mezzo-sopranos - Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby
Countertenors - James Bowman, Michael Chance, Andrew Watts
Tenors - Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, Benjamin Hulett
Baritones - Stefan Loges, Roderick Williams,...
…anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour… It is, inevitably an eclectic mix, but, as in any well-planned song recital, the progressions and juxtapositions are continually... —
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Contemporary
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New Music for Oboe - Volume 2
Melinda Maxwell (oboe, cor anglais), Anna Barton (oboe) & Alexia Pelling (oboe), Hugh Webb (harp), Richard Benjafield (percussion), Stephen Gutman (piano)
Melinda Maxwell is an outstanding musician. The range of colour and expression she brings to this music is phenomenal. —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, Chamber Choice
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Black Lanterns and Nigredo are also single-movement works, both expanding from small beginnings into areas of virtuosity which are effortlessly negotiated by Rolf Hind. He brings a richness... —
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BCMG 2013 Sampler: New Music for New Ears
Claire Booth (soprano), Simon Haram (saxophone), Simon Russell Beale (narrator), Hilary Summers (contralto), Lore Lixenberg (mezzo-soprano), Mary Carewe (soprano), Malcolm Wilson (piano)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Oliver Knussen, James Weeks, Christopher Austin, Martyn Brabbins, Susanna...
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Special offer. Simon Holt: …era madrugada, Shadow Realm, Sparrow Night & Canciones
Fiona Kimm (mezzo)
Nash Ensemble, Lionel Friend
These works, all from the 1980s, confirm [Holt] as one of the most distinctive and successful composers of his generation —
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New Stock - Sampler
William Howard (piano), Lucy Shelton, Sarah Leonard (soprano), Eileen Hulse, David White, John Wallace (trumpet), Marcia Crayford, Chi-chi Nwanokwu, Ian Brown, Manoug Parikian, Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Corrado Canonici, Alexander Baillie (cello), William Conway, Ernst...
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It almost goes without saying that the Endymion players are first-rate advocates for these works...there is a diversity of approach from composers young and not so young here, suggesting British... —
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New Music Collections Vol. 4 - Piano
Thalia Myers (piano), Ian Pace (piano), Noriko Kawai (piano), Rolf Hind (piano), Melvyn Tan (piano), Huw Watkins (piano), Michael Finnissy (piano), Nicky Losseff (piano), Jonathan Powell (piano), Philip Mead (piano), Stephen Montague (piano), Susan Bradshaw (piano), Phyllis Sellick (piano), Roger...
A fascinating survey of contemporary (or near contemporary) piano works, played by expert interpreters, including several of the composers themselves. —
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NMC at 35
Onyx Brass (brass ensemble), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Jane Manning (soprano), Roger Smalley, Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian, Ziazan, Mark Padmore (tenor), Richard Watkins (horn), Huw Watkins (piano), Thomas Hewitt Jones, Ruby Philogene, Lawrence Zazzo, Timothy Dawkins, Philip Sheffield, Jeremy Huw Williams...
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