One of London’s newest young professional choirs Inchant and harpist Anwen Mai Thomas, led by conductor Emma Warren, host a relaxed evening of Christmas music, both traditional and contemporary. The event, which includes Stephen Dodgson’s two upper-voice carols Falan-Tiding and The Running Carol (from his ‘Christmas Collection’), takes place in the atmospheric Grade-II listed Belsize Community Library
🌀 Over the course of the evening, we’ll hear three 20-25 minute sets of festive music:
🎶 Set 1: a capella choral music with Inchant
🎶 Set 2: harp music with Anwen Mai Thomas
🎶 Set 3: Inchant and Anwen join forces to perform ‘A Ceremony of Carols’ by Benjamin Britten
BYOB/flasks of mulled wine. Mince pies provided!
📆 Sunday 10th December, 7:30pm (doors open at 7:15pm)
📍 Belsize Community Library, Antrim Road, Belsize Park, London, NW3 4XN
⏰ Duration: up to 2 hours
More details/book at: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/inchant/inchant-christmas-concert/e-mdkazj
Award-winning choir Pegasus and a stellar group of instrumentalists and soloists open the Barnes Music Festival with a concert that pairs Bach and Stephen Dodgson’s Magnificats, ahead of Dodgson’s centenary on 17th March, conducted by Festival Director James Day.
Tickets will be available via the Barnes Music Festival website.
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.
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.
