The Thames Youth Orchestra under the direction of Simon Ferris performs Stephen Dodgson’s Essay No. 1 alongside works by Ferguson and Vaughan Williams in a concert that explores 20th-century orchestral compositions from the British Isles.
The Thames Youth Orchestra is a large-scale independent youth symphony orchestra based in southwest London. Since its foundation in 2005, TYO has developed into a richly-resourced orchestral training programme playing a prominent artistic and educational role in its community. The orchestra comprises 70 young musicians drawn from over 30 local schools whose work is overseen by an outstanding staff of highly-experienced professional musicians. TYO performs extensively in London (with concerts given at the Barbican Centre, the Royal Albert Hall, Cadogan Hall, LSO St. Luke’s, St. John’s Smith Square) and annually on tour across Europe.
Programme
Howard Ferguson – Overture for an Occasion
Stephen Dodgson – Essay No. 1
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Job, a masque for dancing
Tickets available on the door (£12 or £6 concessions)
This celebratory concert brings together works from many of the composers who have lived and worked in Barnes. Stephen Dodgson’s 100th anniversary is celebrated with his Trumpet Concerto – his last work, written in 2011 – and the trumpeter he wrote it for, Imogen Whitehead. (For more, read Imogen’s blog about the concerto.) The performance also celebrates Holst’s 150th anniversary The Planets. Jim Parker and Carl Davis both sadly died last year and their lives are marked by the popular pieces they wrote respectively for Midsomer Murders and Pride & Prejudice. And Howard Goodall and Roxanna Panufnik bring some of their latest works to the concert platform.
Gustav Holst arr. George Morton The Planets
Performance by Barnes Young Musician of the Year winner
Carl Davis “Pride and Prejudice” or “Champions”
Jim Parker Midsomer Murders Theme
Stephen Dodgson Trumpet Concerto
Roxanna Panufnik Lament for a Bulgarian Dancing Bear
Howard Goodall “Bright manner” from Unconditional Love
Tickets available via the Barnes Music Festival website.
Black tie encouraged, champagne available.
The versatile chamber ensemble Karolos perform Stephen Dodgson’s String Trio no. 2 at the Conway Hall alongside a selection of works by Bach, Schubert and Mozart. Renowned for the energy and vitality of their concerts as well as their extraordinary musicianship, they perform a broad repertoire ranging from classics to recent commissions.
The group previously recorded the trio along with a number of Dodgson works to great acclaim.
“a dynamic, virtuoso chamber collective of first-rate players.” Gramophone Magazine
Programme
Schubert – String Trio in B flat D471
Bach – arr. Mackenzie: Sinfonia No.3 in C minor BWV788
Bach – arr. Mackenzie: Sinfonia No.1 in C BWV787
Bach – arr. Mackenzie: Sinfonia No.9 in F minor BWV795
Dodgson – String Trio No.2
Mozart – Divertimento in E flat K563
Pre-concert talk – 5.30pm
Concert – 6.30pm
Tickets will be available via the Conway Hall website.
James Turnbull and Eleanor Turner perform Stephen Dodgson’s Countdown as part of a chamber music concert entitled ‘Memento’ – a morning ‘coffee’ concert that forms part of the New Paths Festival. The pair recorded the piece in 2017 as part of their Dodgson ‘Music for Oboe’ recording, to great acclaim.
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They write of the concert: Vaughan Williams’ quintet for strings was written shortly after his famous Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, and similarly takes medieval music as its starting point, creating a timeless spaciousness. With its warm texture featuring two violas there is an almost orchestral expansiveness to this nostalgic music. We mark Stephen Dodgson’s centenary year with Countdown – a jovial and lyrical suite for oboe and harp written in honour of the late Queen Mother’s 90th birthday: each movement counts something different, from candles to sheep to blessings! Reflective contemporary works by Ayanna Witter-Johnson and James MacMillan are offset against the frothy energy of Mozart’s much-loved oboe quartet.
Mozart: Oboe Quartet
Witter-Johnson: Meditation
Dodgson: Countdown
MacMillan: Memento
Vaughan Williams: Phantasy Quintet
James Turnbull (oboe) | Eleanor Turner (harp) | Alessandro Ruisi (violin) | Jamie Campbell (violin) | Kasia Ziminska (viola) | Rosalind Ventris (viola) | Cara Berridge (cello)
The LFCCM commemorates Stephen Dodgson’s centenary with a concert that features several Dodgson sacred choral works alongside works by established and up-and-coming contemporary composers. All performed by a crack team selected from among London’s finest choral singers directed by Alastair Carey.
Tickets will be available nearer the time from the LFCCM website.
Tenor James Gilchrist and guitarist Mark Eden will be performing a selection of Stephen Dodgson guitar songs at St Mary’s Church in Arkengarthdale at 4pm on Wednesday 29 May 2024 as part of the Swaledale Festival. The programme will also include music by Dowland, Schubert and Alec Roth.
James Gilchrist is a leading interpreter of Oratorio and Song, especially the German and English repertoire. He is internationally renowned as one of the evangelists in Bach’s passions and oratorios and maintains an ongoing interest in older music, regularly performing as a soloist with viol consorts, lutenists and period pianos.
Mark Eden is better known as one half of the Eden Stell Guitar Duo and is also a founder member of the VIDA Guitar Quartet. Both ensembles have achieved international acclaim and continue to perform at some of the most prestigious venues, International guitar and music festivals all over the world.
James and Mark both feature on the recently-recorded Dodgson solo song CDs (Volumes 1 and 2 now out, and Volume 3 out in 2024), along with Ailish Tynan, Katie Bray, Marcus Farnsworth, Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn).
Tickets will be available from March 2024 at www.swalefest.org
The Magnard Ensemble and a cast of soloists perform Stephen Dodgson’s short chamber opera Cadilly alongside his Gipsy Songs at Conway Hall. Cadilly, based on one of the Tales from the Fens by W. H. Barrett, tells the story of a beautiful woman and ‘willing maid’ who is loved by the scholars, their tutors and the townsmen alike but jailed for ‘immoral behaviour’! A vibrant and comic piece.
Programme
Dodgson – Sonata
Gipps – The Lady of the Lambs
Vaughan Williams – Ten Blake Songs for Soprano and Oboe
Arnold – Three Shanties
Dodgson – Cadilly
Pre-concert talk – 5.30pm
Concert – 6.30pm
Tickets will be available via the Conway Hall website.