Colin Currie - Holt: A Table of Noises, St. Vitus in the Kettle & Witness to a Snow Miracle (2017)

Posted By: SERTiL

Date: April 3, 2017

This 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 Chloë 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 the hands of the Romans: her flesh torn with hooks, flames applied to the wounds,and her body buried in hot coals. A blanket of snow fell on her ashes, at which point she was declared a saint.

Holt's other award-winning concerto on this album is a much more upbeat and quirky affair. Written for and performed on this recording by one of the world's finest percussionists, Colin Currie, a table of noises introduces us to Holt's taxidermist great uncle Ashworth, a kind of maverick scientist-cum-collector. Currie says this percussion concerto exuberantly tears up the manual on how to approach the medium and I am thrilled with the idiosyncratic, adventurous results. The soloist is seated on a cajon (a box-shaped instrument often used in fl amenco), and apart from the xylophone and glockenspiel, all the other instruments are laid out on a table in front of the soloist; hence the title. Each brief movement has a descriptive title (eg. a drawer full of eyes (discovered by Holt s mother in Ash's bedroom tallboy and Skennin Mary (a neighbour with a glass eye that spun when she became angry) and is linked by five ghost orchestral interludes.

The short, dazzling, orchestral work St Vitus in the kettle was commissioned by BBC National Orchestra of Wales during Holt's tenure as Composer-in-Association (2008-2014). The grisly end for this saint was a cauldron of boiling hot lead!

TRACKLIST
01. A Table Of Noises: I. Jute
02. A Table of Noises: II. Ghost one
03. A Table of Noises: III. Fly
04. A Table of Noises: IV. Ghost two
05. A Table of Noises: V. A drawer full of eyes
06. A Table of Noises: VI. Ghost three
07. A Table of Noises: VII. Skennin' Mary
08. A Table Of Noises: VIII. Ghost Four
09. A Table of Noises: IX. Table top-Ghost five
10. A Table of Noises: X. Under glass
11. St Vitus in the Kettle
12. Witness to a Snow Miracle: I. Eulalia of Merida
13. Witness to a Snow Miracle: II. The tearing, the burning
14. Witness to a Snow Miracle: III. Flames become birds
15. Witness to a Snow Miracle: IV. Snowfall on ashes
16. Witness to a Snow Miracle: V. Witness
17. Witness to a Snow Miracle: VI. Torments
18. Witness to a Snow Miracle: VII. Halo

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