{"product_id":"robin-stevens-orchestral-music-vol-3","title":"Robin Stevens: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3","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.","brand":"Toccata","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46478666694890,"sku":"5060113447883","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/4510392-3573458.jpg?v=1793316920","url":"https:\/\/arkivmusic.com\/products\/robin-stevens-orchestral-music-vol-3","provider":"ArkivMusic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}