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- Simon Holt
Morpheus Wakes (2011)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
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- Flute
- 15 min
Programme Note
Morpheus Wakes is a flute concerto in 2 movements. For the first 11' movement, the flute solo plays only alto flute. Initially the music seems to be thawing out of a slow, dark-hued and quite sparse permafrost-covered landscape. The player will change to flute for the second 4' movement, which will be, by contrast, wild and unleashed, bordering on the chaotic; bright and vividly awake. The soloist could be seen to represent the god of dreaming, Morpheus himself, as if slowly waking from a deep, troubled sleep.
S.H.
18th December 2013
S.H.
18th December 2013
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Reviews
'Disturbingly brilliant'
16th December 2014
"The closing trio with orchestral flute and piccolo is vibrancy itself."
3rd August 2014
“Holt’s kaleidoscopically colourful harnessing of Hungarian cimbalom, harp and bass clarinet played a crucial part in a thoughtfully conceived accompanying instrumentation that saw strings devoid of violins and a colouristic palette of vivid imagination.”
30th July 2014
“Textures, layers, colour kaleidoscopes: Holt expertly juggled them from the soloist’s two flutes…Even when Morpheus was bleary-eyed, sounds blended with crystal clarity.”
29th July 2014
“The dreamy opening developed gradually into extremely virtuosic writing for the flute”
28th July 2014