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Robin Stevens: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3

Katherine Bryan; Pail Silverthorne; Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Paul Mann

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Format: CD

Cat No: TOCC0788

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Release Date:  03 July 2026

Label:  Toccata Classics - Cd / Toccata Classics

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5060113447883

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

Composer/Series:  Robin Stevens

  • Description

    The compositional career of Robin Stevens (1958-2026), Welsh-born and Manchester-based, was divided into two periods, separated by a period of illness. The first produced mainly chamber music and works for the church that employed him; restored to health (briefly, as it transpired), he found an appetite for larger forms, writing three substantial concertos and a number of other orchestral works. The tone-poem Mourning into Dancing was his first for large orchestra, but he handles the medium with virtuosic assurance, generating a wildly exciting showpiece, a kaleidoscope of colour and rhythm. Stevens never lived to complete the symphony he had in mind, but his expansive, four-movement Viola Concerto is symphonic in outline, with the viola soloist both initiating and commenting on the action - rather like a distant cousin of Berlioz's Harold en Italie. The more modest Concert Rondo for flute and small orchestra provides light relief between these two mighty scores.