[Thor Joachim Haga]

I’ve always loved Richard Robbins’ merge of minimalism and classical-isms (classicisms?). He was doing ‘post-minimalist romanticism’ before it was a thing. The Merchant/Ivory productions are obviously his best, and while my absolute favourite (both score and film) is THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, the others are great too, inclduding A ROOM WITH A VIEW. Other Robbins scores worth checking out are MAURICE, HOWARD’S END, JEFFERSON IN PARIS, A SOLDIER’S DAUGHER NEVER CRIES and THE GOLDEN BOWL. I once owned SURVIVING PICASSO on CD as well, but (stupidly) traded it away, and now I can no longer find it in digital file format.