Various - Rob Keeley: Orchestral Music

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.