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R. Stevens: Chasing Shadows - New Music for Mixed Ensemble
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R. Stevens: Chasing Shadows - New Music for Mixed Ensemble

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Composer
Robin Stevens
Artist
Rosa Campos, Clifford Llantaff, Sophie Rosa, Katie Stillman, Rosemary Attree, Alastair Vennart, Chri
Format
CD
Label
Divine Art
Released
Mar 10, 2023
Catalog #
DDA25236
UPC
809730523625

About

Stevens manages to blend the often dominating clarinet with subtle warmth and colour with the strings, giving the Clarinet Quintet a distinctive character of its own. An important strand in Stevens’ compositional output since 2007 has been writing music for relatively neglected instruments such as the tuba, the piccolo and the bassoon, and this strand was strengthened in the autumn of 2015 when he wrote a collection of six pieces for double bass and piano, to which Chasing Shadows and Obsession belong.

The Fantasy Trio (2009) is a relatively rare instance of a substantial chamber work combining the classical guitar with mainstream orchestral instruments. The Romantic Fantasy for flute (doubling piccolo), B flat clarinet, string quartet and harp (2010), is written for the same forces as Ravel’s ground-breaking Introduction and Allegro. The Romantic Fantasy is an ambitious work in one movement, an unbroken span of twenty three minutes’ music. British composer Robin Stevens (b. 1958) is a great talent who is being discovered by the global music community, due in part to the critical acclaim given to the 3 previous Divine Art albums of his music. His varied, stimulating and expressive work arises from many influences – from the music of the Romantic era, to mathematics, his faith and inspiration of his teachers, and he is now producing substantial works for varied instrumental groupings, which are modernist and original, but yet immediately accessible.

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 I. Quasi una fantasia 12:26
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Quasi una fantasia
    Duration
    12:26
    Composer
    Robin Stevens
    Performer
    Rosa Campos Fernández, Sophie Rosa, Rosemary Attree, Alistair Vennart, Nicholas Trygstad
  2. 2 II. Scherzo: Allegro spiritoso 02:28
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Scherzo: Allegro spiritoso
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Robin Stevens
    Performer
    Rosa Campos Fernández, Sophie Rosa, Rosemary Attree, Alistair Vennart, Nicholas Trygstad
  3. 3 III. Adagio con moto 09:12
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Adagio con moto
    Duration
    09:12
    Composer
    Robin Stevens
    Performer
    Rosa Campos Fernández, Sophie Rosa, Rosemary Attree, Alistair Vennart, Nicholas Trygstad
  4. 4 IV. Finale: Allegro vivo 07:36
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegro vivo
    Duration
    07:36
    Composer
    Robin Stevens
    Performer
    Rosa Campos Fernández, Sophie Rosa, Rosemary Attree, Alistair Vennart, Nicholas Trygstad
  5. 5 Obsession 04:22
    Track
    5
    Title
    Obsession
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Robin Stevens
    Performer
    Alexander Jones, David Jones
  6. 6 Fantasy Trio 14:46
    Track
    6
    Title
    Fantasy Trio
    Duration
    14:46
    Composer
    Robin Stevens
    Performer
    Amy Yule, Craig Ogden, Nicholas Trygstad
  7. 7 Chasing Shadows 03:58
    Track
    7
    Title
    Chasing Shadows
    Duration
    03:58
    Composer
    Robin Stevens
    Performer
    Alexander Jones, David Jones
  8. 8 Romantic Fantasy 23:13
    Track
    8
    Title
    Romantic Fantasy
    Duration
    23:13
    Composer
    Robin Stevens
    Performer
    Amy Yule, Rosa Campos Fernández, Rosemary Attree, Katie Stillman, Christine Anderson, Nicholas Trygstad, Clifford Llantaff