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‘Peasant Poet’ solo songs – BBC Music Magazine review
February 01, 2023
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Mark Eden's guitar provides the recording’s ear-catching opening with the Four Poems of John Clare [sung by] James Gilchrist... Elsewhere, pianist Christopher Glynn adroitly elicits the diverse character of each song, emphatic and unruly in Irishry, yet inscrutably supporting soprano Ailish Tynan’s sublimely ethereal ‘Psyche’ from Tideways... Roderick Williams is typically captivating in the storytelling of the Bush Ballads... These approachable, sometimes quirky vignettes could hardly have better advocates.
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‘Peasant Poet’ solo songs CD – British Music Society review
December 05, 2022
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An excellent aspect of this disc is that we have a wide variety of star-studded voices adding interest throughout with the guitar (for which Dodgson was brilliant at writing) and recorder. In all there are 26 songs here and that includes five cycles and these are, attractively, divided between the voices. The texts stretch from light verse through Gerard Manley Hopkins and Walter de la Mare. In the accompanying essays, Dodgson’s style and language is neatly summed up as ‘a tonal-based inspiration and a natural creative communicative desire’, although Matthew-Walker does add that Dodgson clearly has his own personal voice. And, one must agree with him that Dodgson has been ‘unfairly neglected’.
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Tournament for Twenty Fingers – Colin’s Column review
October 06, 2022
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The album’s title is owed to Stephen Dodgson, eight delightful vignettes, beautifully crafted, which fall on grateful ears. Throughout, Emma Abbate and Julian Perkins play as one, with dedication and shared pleasure.
Continue Reading →Tournament for Twenty Fingers – 5-star BBC Music Magazine review
September 08, 2022
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Captured in beguilingly immediate sound that creates the impression of Emma Abbate and Julian Perkins playing in your living room, this is a recording I have already returned to several times simply for the pleasure of hearing two players at the top of their game.
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Sungbin Cho wins RAM prize with Dodgson Guitar Concerto No. 1
July 04, 2022
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We're delighted to announce that guitarist Sungbin Cho has won second prize at the Royal Academy of Music's concerto competition with Stephen Dodgson's Guitar Concerto No. 1. Cho also won the International Guitar Competition in October with a programme which featured Dodgson's Partita No. 1.
Continue Reading →New release – ‘Tournament for Twenty Fingers’ piano duets
July 03, 2022
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Announcing the release of 'Tournament for Twenty Fingers', a collection of piano duets performed by Julian Perkins and Emma Abbate, featuring the Dodgson suite by the same name and his Sonata for piano duet alongside works by Berkeley, Arnell and Lambert.
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Duo Guitartes – Promenade 1 live video
April 13, 2022
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Duo Guitartes perform Stephen Dodgson's Promenade 1 which featured on their recent release 'Colloquy', a sublime disc of guitar compositions.
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Osman Tack – concert video
April 09, 2022
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Osman Tack's delightful recital of Stephen Dodgson's Six Bagatelles Set 2 and Chopin's 24 Preludes at the Barnes Music Festival.
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Cadilly musings – performance and recording
July 01, 2021
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Reflections from the performers of Dodgson's Cadilly. 'The overriding thing is his sense of humour, even in the most profoundly beautiful moments.' 'Whatever the mood or character, whatever the scene is, there is such a clear picture painted through the textures and the colours in instruments and the vocalists.' 'It's very colourful music – expect the unexpected!'
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1:00 pm Eight Fanciful Pieces – Osman Tack @ All Saints, High Wycombe
Eight Fanciful Pieces – Osman Tack @ All Saints, High Wycombe 
Jun 5 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Pianist Osman Tack performs a lunchtime recital comprising Stephen Dodgson’s richly delightful Eight Fanciful Pieces and Schubert’s highly demanding Wanderer Fantasy at All Saints Parish Church, High Wycombe. Tack recently recorded the former as part of complete Dodgson piano CD, which is being released in 2024 to mark Stephen Dodgson’s centenary.
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7:30 pm Mēla Guitar Quartet – Change-Rin... @ Luton Music Club
Mēla Guitar Quartet – Change-Rin... @ Luton Music Club 
Jul 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Join the Mēla Guitar Quartet in a wonderfully eclectic evening hosted by the Luton Music Club featuring Stephen Dodgson’s Change-Ringers alongside works by Philip Houghton and Laura Snowden and arrangements of Bach, Debussy, Ravel, Glinka, Milhaud, Bizet, Sain-Saëns, and Brubeck and Desmond. The quartet recently recorded Change-Ringers as part of a delightful collection of Dodgson guitar chamber works. Programme Camille Saint-Saëns – Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah arr. Bovey Claude Debussy – Deux Arabesques arr. Tarlton Andante con Moto; Allegretto Scherzando Phillip Houghton – Opals (1995) Black Opal; Water Opal; White Opal J.S. Bach – Organ fugue BWV 578 arr. Mēla Mikhail Glinka – Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture arr.[...]
