Rob Keeley: Orchestral Music
) | Label: TOCCATA CLASSICS Catalog: TOCC0462 Format: CD Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga; Flanaghan, Patrick; Liepaja Symphony Orchestra; Sluman, Michael; Turnbull, James; Mann, Paul; Desbruslais, SarahThe 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 humor.  Price: $27.98 |