Peter Seabourne's "Mille Fiori" fanfare was commissioned by the Spalding Flower Festival in 2011 and was originally for four trumpets.
Performer Biography
Ondřej Vrabec, a conductor and horn player, became the solo horn of the Czech Philharmonic at age 17, even before finishing his final school examinations.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Robin Holloway's mature style forges a path between complex modernism and radical re-engagement with Romanticism, reflecting his refusal to be constrained by categorization.
Composer Biography
Robin Holloway, a renowned composer, essayist, and teacher, was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral and later became Professor of Composition at Cambridge.
Composition History
Robin Holloway's "Lament for four horns" was composed for the centenary of a tragedy at his Cambridge College, Gonville & Caius, where four undergraduates drowned in 1919.
Compositional Technique
Robin Holloway's Partitas evoke the spirit of Bach's cello suites, including a prelude and varied dance forms, but depart from the traditional Baroque sequence by omitting the Allemande and inserting original dances.
Composer Biography
Peter Seabourne, a composer, abandoned writing for about twelve years due to dissatisfaction with his work and the new music world, before a 'reawakening' in 2001.
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