Events

Cellist Leo Popplewell performs Stephen Dodgson’s Partita at a Bach-themed recital forming part of the Cambridge Summer Music Festival.

‘My idea was to explore the influence of Bach on twentieth-century solo cello repertoire. Stephen Dodgson’s Partita from 1985 draws upon Bach’s language through the lens of Benjamin Britten, whose three suites from the latter half of the twentieth century form a staple of the modern cello repertoire. Renowned for his prowess in musical invention, Bach’s motivic efficiency is explored in Elliott Carter’s Figment from 1994, a six-minute work encompassing a vast range of musical colours whilst based thematically on a single musical idea.’

The recital takes place in the atmospheric setting of the memorial building at Cambridge’s American Cemetery on Madingley Hill.

Leo Popplewell cello

Casals El Cant del Ocells (Song of the Birds)
Stephen Dodgson Partita
Elliott Carter Figment
JS Bach Suite No.6 in D major

Further details at http://cambridgesummermusic.co.uk/leo-popplewell/

If Italy was the ‘cradle of the renaissance’, it was also the ‘playground of the Baroque’. Julian Perkins and Sounds Baroque’s The Italian Connection celebrates the infusion of Italian music throughout Europe with a programme that juxtaposes works by esteemed Baroque Masters with Baroque-inspired tonal works by Stephen Dodgson.

Dodgson works include Invention No. 5 from Set 1: ‘The Worm’; Invention No. 5 from Set 2: ‘Plush and Roses’ and The New Terpsichore, Book 1.

Julian Perkins harpsichord
Sophie Barber violin
Karin Björk violin
Henrik Persson cello

Sounds Baroque Italian Connection programme

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Pianist Emma Abbate and the Tippett Quartet perform a concert of piano quintets, at the Penkhull Festival of Music, including Stephen Dodgson’s Piano Quintet No. 1 which they recently recorded on the Toccata Classics label and a voted a MusicWeb recording of the year.

Programme

• Mendelssohn: String quartet no. 1 in E flat major op. 12
• Dodgson: Piano quintet no. 1 in C
• Chris Brammeld: string quartet
• Schumann: Piano quintet op. 44 in E flat major

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