Robin Stevens: Music for Cello and Piano
Catalog Number: DDA25217
A composer’s intimate journey for cello and piano: from taut, modernist intensity and microtonal “wild side” explorations to lyrical reflection, conversational drama, and a final turn toward affectionate, folk-tinged lightness.
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Robin Stevens: Music for Cello and Piano
Spanning decades of creative evolution, this programme traces a personal path from tonal beginnings toward an incisive contemporary voice, where lyric impulse is continually tested by dissonance, restless rhythm, and a taste for expressive surprise. Compact miniatures sit beside larger spans, revealing a language shaped by dialogue: cello and piano answer, interrupt, and exchange roles with quicksilver wit, sometimes as if caught in an emotionally charged conversation. Microtones and glissandi become more than colour—opening an “otherworldly” space that can feel mercurial, searching, even mystical—while the extended single-movement sonata builds coherence through recurring landmarks, dreamlike hush, and climactic release. Yet the disc also embraces warmth and play: a suite that affectionately pastiches folk gesture and character brings relief and human proximity, reminding us that modern edge and tuneful ease can coexist within one honest musical imagination.
Published date
2022-01-14
Number of discs
1
Sample rate
96000 Hz
Channels
stereo:24:2.0
Made in Sweden since 1999. In collaboration with Textalk.
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