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  • Simon Holt

  • eco-pavan (1998)

  • Chester Music Ltd (World)

Comissioned by the London Sinfonietta and the BBC

  • bfl.heck/perc/hp.cim/man/va.db
  • piano
  • 15 min

Programme Note

Eco-pavan is scored for solo piano, bass flute, heckelphone, harp, cimbalom, one percussionist (playing tuned gongs and cowbells mainly), mandolin, viola and bass. The title comes from a section in my opera The Nightingale’s to blame but this piece shares none of the material from that piece. The piece is essentially an enhanced piano piece of fourteen minutes duration – the ensemble echoing the sound of the piano and the material in the piece echoing itself. The louder outbursts are intended to bring into relief the essentially slow quiet of the piece.

eco-pavan is dedicated to Jo Kondo – a friend and fine composer of extraordinary integrity.

© Simon Holt

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eco-pavan

Reviews

Hind's playing [was] transformed by eight other instruments, including the evocative sounds of bass flute, cimbalon, mandolin and hecklephone.
Matthew Rye, The Daily Telegraph
21st February 2005
Holt's influences are predominantly mediteranean and his music blends lyricism with violence, above all in eco-pavan, in which a spectral instrumental ensemble echoes a piano solo that is by turns courtly and explosive.
Tim Ashley, The Guardian
21st February 2005
Eco-Pavan, a piece for piano and ghostly ensemble, built from the whispers of cimbalom, bass flute and other creatures usually only encountered in zoos. It was a quiet knockout.
Geoff Brown, The Times
4th June 2003
The “eco” in eco-pavan, by the way, relates not to PC environmentalism but to the Spanish word “echo” – a simple musical principle, here brilliantly realised for a gorgeously unconventional ensemble featuring heckelphone, bass flute and cimbalon. The results beguiled the ear, …
Malcolm Hayes, The Sunday Telegraph
29th November 1998

Discography

Boots of Lead

Boots of Lead
  • Label
    NMC
  • Catalogue Number
    NMC D094
  • Conductor
    Martyn Brabbins / Simon Rattle
  • Ensemble
    Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Soloist
    Ulrich Heinen (vc), Rolf Hind (pf), Rinat Shaham (Ms)

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