Stevens: Music for Cello and Piano / Jones, Trygstad

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Label
Divine Art
Release Date
January 14, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Robin Stevens
    • PERFORMER
      Nicholas Trygstad, David Jones
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 14, 2022
    • UPC
      809730521720
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      DDA25217
    • LABEL
      Divine Art
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Sonata Romantica

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad, David Jones

    2. No. 1. Foreboding

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad, David Jones

    3. No. 2. Gentle Lament

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad, David Jones

    4. No. 3. Clockwork Toy

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad, David Jones

    5. Carried on a Whimsy

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad

    6. No. 1. Thunder in the Soul

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad, David Jones

    7. No. 2. Wistful Chorale

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad, David Jones

    8. No. 3. A Short Ride in a Dangerous Machine

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad, David Jones

    9. Sospiri

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad

    10. On the Wild Side

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad, David Jones

    11. A Probing Exchange

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad

    12. I. The Family Gathers

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad, David Jones

    13. II. Grandpa Hankers after the Past

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad, David Jones

    14. III. A Graceful Beauty

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad, David Jones

    15. IV. Enter Great-grandpa

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad, David Jones

    16. V. Rough and Tumble in the Nursery

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad, David Jones

    17. Much Ado About …?

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad

    18. Say Yes to Life

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad, David Jones

    19. Unfailing Stream

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad

    20. A Birthday Trifle

      Composer: Robin Stevens

      Performer: Nicholas Trygstad, David Jones


The 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 two 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. An accomplished cellist himself, Stevens has produced a body of work for the instrument which should become part of the regular repertoire. On this album, works for cello and piano stand alongside pieces for solo cello, from the substantial 27–minute Sonata Romantica to several compositions in a lighter, tonal style full of Stevens’ wit and humor. Written between 1994 and 2020, they present a diverse range of expressionist and gently modernist sound worlds. American cellist Nicholas Trygstad moved to England in 1998 to study at the Royal Northern College of Music. He became principal cello of Scottish Opera and from 2005 the Hallé Orchestra, and is very active in both solo recitals, chamber concerts and his teaching duties both at the RNCM in Manchester and also now with NYO Inspire. David Jones is Head of Accompaniment at the Royal Northern College and pianist for the Hallé Choir, and has given premiere performances of works by a number of prominent British composers. His previous recordings include three albums of music by Jeffrey Lewis, attracting the comment “not to be missed”: by Gramophone. Both Nicholas and David have appeared on previous Divine Art / Métier recordings.