![]() Harvey says in his notes, that he aimed to stretch Williams’s technique by writing the “impossible”, and he certainly poses problems in “Lavolta”. This is not to minimize the effectiveness of Rodrigo’s Fantasia, conceived with tighter parameters they are very different works. His use of the orchestra is, too, more strikingly varied. Whereas Rodrigo’s aim was to reconcile elements of romanticism with given earlier material, Harvey, with the advantage of being the creator of both ‘old’ and ‘new’, succeeds in producing a more naturally integrated work. Richard Harvey’s Concerto Antico, “a suite of tunes based on old dance and song forms”, follows in the footsteps of Rodrigo’s Fantasia para un gentilhombre only in spirit Rodrigo’s tunes are those of Gaspar Sanz whilst Harvey’s are his own, he has more than one country in mind, and he treats the nominal forms freely, capturing their spirit as he perceives it.
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