Simon Holt: a book of colours Rolf Hind: piano NMC D128 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 NMC D094 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 recording of his piano music is an important document of his work. For a complete survey of Simon Holt's solo piano music NMC are offering one extra work a book of shadows (eight tracks) as download only.   Unfortunately there was not enough space left to include it on this disc.   1.          Tauromaquia     12'18   2. -   6. a book of colours     21'24   7.          Black Lanterns     8'10   8. - 18. Klop's Last Bite     10'22 19.          Nigredo     16'18                 Total Timing     69'17 NMC Recordings are distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading, P.O.Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone (03) 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile (03) 9444 6879