Composer: Rob Keeley
Performer: Sarah Desbruslais, James Turnbull, Michael Sluman, Patrick Flanaghan
Orchestra: Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra, Liepaja Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Paul Mann
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0462
Release: 2020
Size: 1.35 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Symphony No. 2
01. I. Allegro molto
02. II. Scherzo. Allegro con brio
03. III. Adagio molto
04. IV. Allegro molto
Flute Concerto
05. I. Andantino
06. II. Adagio – Allegro molto
Triple concerto
07. I. Allegro molto
08. II. Scherzo. Presto
09. III. Andante con moto, misurato
Variations for Orchestra
10. Theme. Andante moderato
11. Var. 1, Allegro
12. Var. 2, Stesso tempo
13. Var. 3, Lo stesso tempo
14. Var. 4, Meno mosso
15. Var. 5, Allegro
16. Var. 6, Quarter Note Equals 144
17. Var. 7, Slower
18. Var. 8, Allegro vivace
19. Var. 9, Allegro
20. Var. 10, Andantino
21. Var. 11, Vivace
22. Var. 12, Adagio
23. Var. 13, Presto
24. Passacaglia-Finale
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.