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- Simon Holt
Minotaur Games (1993)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
Commissioned by St. Magnus Festival with subsidy from the Scottish Arts Council
- 2.2.1+bcl.cbn/2211/hp/str(12.12.8.8.4)
- 16 min
Programme Note
The Minotaur was a bull-headed monster imprisoned at the centre of a labyrinth constructed by Icarus's father, Daedalus. Asterion, for this was his name, was the fruit of a furious passion between the Queen of Crete and a white bull brought forth from the sea by Neptune. It, inevitably, fed on flesh and, as it fell to his lot to be killed, Theseus resolved to slay the monster. The death of the monster achieved, Theseus used the magic thread given to him by Ariadne to race his way out of the maze.
© Simon Holt
© Simon Holt
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Reviews
In Minotaur Games – the 1993 chamber-score recently revised by Holt into a much denser fabric of sound – the gritty, lurking darkness of the half bull, half man minotaur is powerfully evoked.
1st November 2009