Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra, Liepāja Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – Rob Keeley: Orchestral Music (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra, Liepāja Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – Rob Keeley: Orchestral Music (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:09 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics

The music of Rob Keeley – born in south Wales in 1960 but immersed in London musical life since boyhood – embraces a wide range of influences. Stravinsky’s angular melodies and Tippett’s buoyant rhythms can be heard in the spiky but bucolic Second Symphony. Keeley readily confesses to an allegiance to Gallic Neo-Classicism in his Flute Concerto and, more surprisingly, reveals a taste for Telemann as the inspiration behind his Triple Concerto, with the ‘Enigma’ Variations of ‘my beloved Elgar’ acting as a model for Keeley’s own recent set of orchestral variations. Among the factors unifying these eclectic stimuli into an individual musical language are a concern for textural clarity and lightness of touch, a fondness for dance and a hint of good humour.

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