Simon Holt - A Book of Colours
Rolf Hind (piano)
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...
Simon Holt - A Book of Colours
Rolf Hind (piano)
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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...
About
Over the last three years Holt has revised all of his older piano works, written several new works, and collected a number of them together. He now plans to take a break from piano music for the next few years, while he concentrates on orchestral and music theatre works.
All the works on this disc are premiere recordings.
Rolf Hind’s recording of Holt’s only piano concerto - eco-pavan for piano and ensemble - is on NMCD094 Although Simon Holt is perhaps best known for his ensemble music—notably the NMC CDs by the Nash Ensemble and BCMG—he often refers to himself primarily as a piano composer.
An accomplished keyboard player himself, Holt considers the fourteen piano works written between 1980 and 2005 to be the very core of his output, and perhaps the works closest to his heart.
This CD of his piano music is an important document of his work.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
October 2009
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 of texture and rhythmic inevitability to the music, backed up by the natural sound of the Potton Hall acoustic.
October 2009
The CD's title links alchemy with Jungian psychology, and it’s the important of transformation to both that gives Holt his musical cue for an absorbing journey from - it would seem - darkness to light. Rolf Hind is the perfect interpreter throughout and the Potton Hall recording is of demonstration quality.
