Keeley - Symphony no. 2, Flute Concerto, Triple Concerto, Variations | Toccata Classics TOCC0462

Keeley - Symphony no. 2, Flute Concerto, Triple Concerto, Variations

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0462

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 5th June 2020

Contents

Artists

Sarah Desbruslais (flute)
James Turnbull (oboe)
Michael Sluman (oboe)
Patrick Flanaghan (cor anglais)
Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Paul Mann

Works

Keeley, Rob

Flute Concerto
Symphony no.2
Triple Concerto for 2 oboes, cor anglais and strings
Variations for Orchestra

Artists

Sarah Desbruslais (flute)
James Turnbull (oboe)
Michael Sluman (oboe)
Patrick Flanaghan (cor anglais)
Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra
Liepaja Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Paul Mann

About

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.

PS: The Variations for Orchestra were completed after the rest of this album had been recorded, in Málaga, in southern Spain; we therefore took advantage of some recording time at the other end of Europe, in Liepāja, on the Latvian coast, to add them to the works already ‘in the can’.

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