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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 Hymn to the Virgin
• Parsons – Ave Maria
• Judith Weir – Ave Regina Caelorum

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):

As part of their Britten-Pears Residency at Aldeburgh, the acclaimed Magnard Ensemble return to Stephen Dodgson’s work with his Sonata for Wind Quintet along with works by other 20th-century and contemporary composers for a lunchtime recital.

Programme

• Martin Butler: Down-Hollow Winds
• Oliver Knussen: Three Little Fantasies
• Stephen Dodgson: Sonata for Wind Quintet
• Paul Patterson: Comedy for Five Winds

Tickets are available at:
https://snapemaltings.co.uk/whats-on/magnard-ensemble-i/

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 – Violin
Sarah-Jane Bradley – Viola
Graham Walker – Cello

Tickets and more details at http://www.bromsgrove-concerts.org.uk/index.php/site/index

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

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 troppo

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.