Essay No. 8 (2000)

  The Marian Consort perform works from their recently recorded CD ‘Music for the Queen of Heaven’ including Stephen Dodgson’s beautiful miniature Dormi Jesu. If you can’t make it to Wigmore Hall in person, the concert is being broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Hear director Rory McCleery discussing the music > Marian Consort blog on touring the programme >   Programme Byrd – Salve Regina a4 Roxanna Panufnik – St Pancras Magnificat Stephen Dodgson – Dormi Jesu Tallis – Videte miraculum Cecilia McDowall – Alma Redemptoris Mater Ludford  – Ave cuius conceptio Tallis – Euge caeli porta Britten – A[...]

The New Cambridge Singers, under the direction of Graham Walker, perform Stephen Dodgson’s Christmas Collection as part of their 2019 Christmas concert by the same name. The concert also includes Christmas music by Palestrina, Mathias, Rutti and Rutter as well as audience carols. One beautiful miniature from the Dodgson collection, Dormi Jesu, was recently recorded by the Marian Consort but this will be the world premiere performance of the complete collection. Hear the Marian Consort sing Dormi Jesu (excerpt or sign in to Spotify):

Karolos in a co-operative of nine of the UK’s leading chamber players, often playing, as here, in smaller sub-groups. They have recently been involved in recording a number of Stephen Dodgson’s chamber works, including this lovely String Trio, which has rarely been played since its première nearly 70 years ago. Don’t be fooled by the unassuming name of Mozart’s K563 – it is one of his greatest, and most substantial, chamber works. Programme Beethoven – String Trio in G Op 9 No. 1 Stephen Dodgson – String Trio No. 1 (1951) Mozart – Divertimento in E flat K563 Harriet Mackenzie –[...]

In a a Barnes Music Society concert entitled ‘A Playful Tournament – Duality’, pianists Emma Abbate and Julian Perkins jointly perform Stephen Dodgson’s Tournament for twenty fingers alongside works by Mozart, Weber, Schubert and Grieg.   Programme Sonata in D Major, K381 – Mozart Allegro Andante Allegro molto From Huit Pièces, op. 60 – Weber Moderato – Allegro – Adagio – Alla zingara – Alla siciliana – Rondo  Rondo in A major for piano four hands, D951 – Schubert  Tournament for twenty fingers – Dodgson Gavotte – Romance – Fantasia in C minor – Cradle Song – Hill-Billy Norwegian Dances, op. 35 – Grieg

On what would have been Stephen Dodgson’s 97th birthday, pianist Emma Abbate and the Tippett Quartet perform a concert of quartets and quintets in Pisa including Dodgson’s Piano Quintet No. 1. Programme Haydn: String quartet op. 33 no. 1 Dodgson: Piano quintet no. 1 in C Schumann: Piano quintet op. 44 in E flat major I Concerti della Normale Teatro Verdi Via Palestro 40 56127 Pisa Italy

Pianist Emma Abbate and the Tippett Quartet reunite to perform a concert of quartets and quintets in Cambridge including Stephen Dodgson’s Piano Quintet No. 1, which they recorded  together in 2017. Programme Mendelssohn (1809–1847): String quartet no. 1 in E flat major op. 12 Adagio non troppo – Allegro non tardante Canzonetta. Allegretto Andante espressivo Molto allegro e vivace  Dodgson (1924–2013): Piano quintet in C Largo e sostenuto – Allegro con brio Andantino Allegro assai Maestoso  Schumann (1810–1856):  Piano quintet in E flat major, op. 44 Allegro brillante In modo d’una marcia. Un poco largamente Scherzo: Molto vivace Allegro ma non[...]

Pianist Emma Abbate and the Tippett Quartet pair Stephen Dodgson’s Piano Quintet No. 1 with Schumann’s piano quintet in an evening concert for the Sevenoaks Music Club.