Musics Odyssey

Robin Holloway is one of Britain's senior modern composers, whose work has been performed all over the world. At Cambridge he taught all three of the leading British composers: Thomas Ades, Judith Weir and George Benjamin. In this special, unconventional and highly original history of classical composers, Holloway traces not only the evolution of forms of music, but the history of feeling and the emotion behind the creation and enjoyment of composition, by articulating what their music truly is like.