Music’s Odyssey : An Invitation to Western Classical Music by Robin Holloway (PRE-ORDER)

DATE OF RELEASE: 18 SEPT 2025

Robin Holloway’s long-awaited Music’s Odyssey is a book about classical music unlike any other. With the insights of a composer himself, he takes us to the essence of baroque, classical, romantic and modern classical music – lesser-known composers and their works, as well as the greats – through close readings, daring comparisons and brilliant insights. Holloway characterizes, illuminates, and energizes his subject with musical empathy,sureness of judgement and mastery of descriptive language, tracing not only the evolution of forms of music but the history of feeling and the emotion behind the creation and enjoyment of composition.

Hardback  
Publication: 18 Sept 2025, Allen Lane 
ISBN: 9780241183014
Extent: 528 pages