Musical Opinion

Robin Walker (b.1953) is another of those British composers seemingly ignored for decades by our national arts bodies whose music is original, distinctive and which runs wholly counter to whatever international fashions happen to have been preferred flavours for This Week’s Composers, decade after decade – but whose music is now deservedly appearing on disc.

This is genuine music by an original thinker – but not so original as to use language incomprehensible to the intelligent music-lover. Walker’s music is by a musician who ‘thinks’ through the structure and instrumentation he has chosen. The result is a true musical voice – and readers are strongly urged to investigate this by no means unimportant release.

The genuine music-lover, as opposed to dedicated followers of fashion, will be well rewarded by coming into contact with a composer of no little artistic merit. Strongly recommended.

—Robert Matthew-Walker