{"product_id":"bryan-katherine-robin-stevens-orchestral-music-vol-3-music-cd-5060113447883","title":"Bryan,katherine - Robin Stevens: Orchestral Music Vol. 3 - Music CD","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":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42342915145803,"sku":"TCCT788.2","price":27.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/rockbandmerch.com\/products\/bryan-katherine-robin-stevens-orchestral-music-vol-3-music-cd-5060113447883","provider":"Rock Band Merch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}