Pianist Emma Abbate and the Tippett Quartet unite for a performance of piano quintets, hosted by the Canterbury Music Club, 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
- Haydn: String quartet op. 33 no. 1
- Dodgson: Piano quintet no. 1 in C
- Puccini: “Crisantemi” for String quartet
- Schumann: Piano quintet in E flat major
Quintets CD reviews
You can also listen to/buy the recording at Toccata Classics.
Cellist Evva Mizerska and pianist Emma Abbate perform a lunchtime recital of Stephen Dodgson’s Two Romantic Pieces for Cello & Piano, Set A at St George’s Bristol alongside works by Schumann, Janáček and Debussy.
The Two Romantic Pieces also feature on a disc of Stephen Dodgson’s complete cello and piano music which the duo recently recorded.
Reviews
Cellist Leo Popplewell performs a lunchtime recital featuring Stephen Dodgson’s Partita for Cello alongside works by Benjamin Britten and Elliot Carter as part of the 2019 Barnes Music Festival.
St. Mary’s Church, Church Road SW13 9HL.
Tickets: http://www.barnesmusicfestival.com/tickets.
For the full festival programme, please visit http://www.barnesmusicfestival.com/programme-2019.

- Ibert – Trois pièces brèves
- Dodgson – Suite for Wind Quintet
- Bach arr. Shiner – Prelude & Fugue in C# minor BWV 849
- Arnold – Three Shanties
- Barber – Summer Music
- Woolrich – Book of Studies Set 1
- Amy Beach – Pastorale
- Patterson – Westerly Winds

Karolos, in their trio format of Harriet Mackenzie, Sarah-Jane Bradley and Graham Walker, perform Stephen Dodgson’s 1st trio alongside Mozart Divertimento in E Flat K563.
Programme
- Dodgson –Trio No. 1
- Mozart – Divertimento in E Flat K563
Performers
- Harriet Mackenzie (violin)
- Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola)
- Graham Walker (cello)
Oboist James Turnbull and harpist Eleanor Turner perform Stephen Dodgson’s Countdown at the Swaledale Festival in a concert which also includes works by Bach, Ravel, Fauré, Donizetti and Vaughan Williams.

Image of Eleanor Turner by Ivan Barra
St Mary’s Church, Arkengarthdale, Richmond, DL11 6EW
The full Swaledale Festival programme will be available at:
https://swalefest.org/Whats-On/Programme.
CD reviews
Countdown was also recently recorded by James and Eleanor on a complete CD of Stephen Dodgson oboe works.
Review of Countdown – UK Harp Magazine
Sample or buy the recording
Stephen Dodgson’s ‘Music for Oboe’ recording is available to buy from Toccata Classics.
A concert performance of Stephen Dodgson’s chamber opera Margaret Catchpole: Two Worlds Apart – a tale of misguided loyalty, passion and fate.
Dodgson’s 1979 chamber opera tells the story of Suffolk heroine, criminal and chronicler Margaret Catchpole. The opera immerses us in the internal battle between her own good character and values, and her heartfelt loyalty to Will Laud, a smuggler – the man she loves.
Libretto by Ronald Fletcher based on the novel by Richard Cobbold.
A pre-performance talk by Anthony Cobbold will be given at 6pm.
Venue: The performance is at the Britten Studio at Snape Maltings in Suffolk.
Cast: Kate Howden, Matthew Brook, Richard Edgar-Wilson, William Wallace, Nicholas Morris, Alistair Ollerenshaw, Peter Willcock, Diana Moore, Robyn Allegra Parton
Orchestra: Ensemble Perpetuo
Conductor: Julian Perkins
Tickets available at https://snapemaltings.co.uk/whats-on/margaret-catchpole/.
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
- Dodgson: Piano quintet no. 1 in C
- 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
I Concerti della Normale
Teatro Verdi
Via Palestro 40
56127 Pisa
Italy