Robin Holloway, the composer, published a column about music in The Spectator for 22 years.
Compositional Technique
Robin Holloway, the composer, has created significant 'reimaginations' and orchestrations of works by other composers, including J.S. Bach's Gilded Goldbergs and Debussy's En Blanc et Noir.
Instruments
Rebecca Raimondi, the violinist, plays a 1907 Riccardo Antoniazzi violin.
Compositional Technique
Robin Holloway's early works were complex and modernist, but later works sparked controversy by radically re-embracing Romanticism in form and tonality.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Robin Holloway, the composer, states that as a young composer he wanted to be a Modern among the Moderns, but now aims to please, stir, delight, move, and invigorate.
Composer Biography
Robin Holloway, the composer, was a Professor of Composition at Cambridge until his retirement in 2011, and his students included notable composers like Judith Weir and Thomas Adès.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in the presence of the composer, Robin Holloway.
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