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Background: Bernard Stevens was born in London and studied at Cambridge and the Royal College of Music in London, where he gained the highest awards. In the 1950s and 1960s, as Britain strove to catch up with the Continental avant-garde, his robust independence of fashion hardly helped to gain his works prestige. Nor did his politics endear him to the establishment.

Occasionally, wryly, he spoke of himself as one of an 'almost lost generation' of British composers; yet as a craftsman and a musical mind he must be judged one of that generation's leading figures. Since his death in 1983, there has been a remarkable upsurge of interest in Stevens’s output. His music impresses the hearer immediately by its warmth and imaginative logic, its firm architecture and commitment to the traditional crafts of counterpoint and variation.

Stevens was especially drawn to the chamber medium, for its possibilities of vigorous dialectical argument and intimate expression; and in it he produced several of his most characteristic and important scores. This recording presents five chamber works spanning almost his entire working life.

CATALOGUE NR: TROY572
RECORD LABEL: Albany
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.23 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 03-Nov-2003

COMPOSER: Bernard Stevens
TRACKS: Piano Trio op.3. Sonata for Violin and Piano in one movement. Trio for Horn Violin and Piano. Fantasia on a theme of Dowland for Violin and Piano. Improvisation for Solo Violin.
ARTISTS: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Ensemble      

- Apr-2004 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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