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Klassisk Musikk review: Quintets recording
December 01, 2017
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"Refinement is the best word to describe these first-class performances by the Tippett Quartet, joined by the nimble-fingered Emma Abbate in the Piano Quintets and Susan Monks as the additional cellist in the String Quintet; a model of chamber ensemble playing. With superb sound, this is as marvellous a disc as the Matthews Piano Trios I reviewed two months ago."
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New recording released: Music for Oboe
November 02, 2017
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We’re delighted to announce the release of a new recording of Stephen Dodgson oboe chamber works performed by James Turnbull (oboe), Libby Burgess (piano) and a number of other talented artists.
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British Music Society review: Guitar Chamber Works recording
October 01, 2017
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"Fresh from an investigation of Stephen Dodgson’s richly imaginative Inventions for Harpsichord, Naxos turns its attention to his chamber works with guitar. It was on the advice of Julian Bream – who premiered the Suite for Guitar in 1952 – that Dodgson turned to the instrument and wrote a long sequence of music that continues to beguile... The performances are unfailingly eloquent and textured and the fine booklet note from Graham Wade also has full texts. It’s good to know that Dodgson’s music continues to generate such enthusiasm in performers and, I’m sure, listeners alike."
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Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review: 24 Inventions
September 11, 2017
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"Here is a modern English composer of obvious caliber... The short pieces all have a Scarlatti-like rhythmic drive, expressiveness, and compact incisiveness, thriving within a chromatic-diatonic realm one might call neo-classical... There is much excellent music to absorb. The complexities and inventive detail in these works demand multiple and unsuperficial hearings to grasp fully. It is worth the trouble, since in the end there is a great deal to like!"
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New recording released: Guitar chamber works
August 24, 2017
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We're delighted to announce the release of a new recording of Stephen Dodgson guitar chamber works performed by the Mēla Guitar Quartet and a number of other talented artists
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July 24, 2017
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"It is a particular pleasure to recommend the first complete recording of the first four books of Stephen Dodgson’s Inventions for Harpsichord... Playing throughout is first-rate as each set of six displays its various moods. [And the] illuminating program notes [are] brimming with unique information... You might wish to order multiple copies of this recording for distribution to friends who 'already have everything'."
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The Story behind ‘The Selevan Story’
June 29, 2017
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Guitarist Stephen Gordon shares with us the collaborative relationship between Stephen Dodgson and the Prussia Cove International Guitar Seminar across a number of works, a relationship which led to the commissioning and recording of his work The Selevan Story.
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MusicWeb review: Dodgson Quintets CD
June 19, 2017
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"All the performances are absolutely splendid and quite beautifully recorded and balanced, with a pleasingly wide sound stage. The piano sound in particular is exemplary. Booklet notes are by John Warrack and are models of their kind.
Toccata can be proud of this generously-filled offering which is a very worthwhile and welcome addition to the discography of an unjustly neglected composer."
British Music Society review: Quintets CD and Harpsichord Inventions CD
June 05, 2017
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"Toccata continues its excellent mission to propagate the music of Stephen Dodgson whilst Naxos has also done the composer proud with its disc of 24 Inventions for Harpsichord. Everything here is a premiere recording....
The performances are uniformly splendid and the church acoustic has been well judged. John Warrack’s notes are similarly first-class... The recording quality is excellent. Let’s hope there are many more such excellent discs before the centenary of Dodgson’s birth in 2024."
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2:30 pm Evva Mizerska and Jiva Housden –... @ Harwich Festival
Evva Mizerska and Jiva Housden –... @ Harwich Festival 
Oct 2 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Cellist Evva Mizerska and guitarist Jiva Housden perform an afternoon recital at the Harwich Festival featuring Stephen Dodgson’s Duo for Cello and Guitar alongside works by Boccherini, de Falla and Burgmüller. Both are intimately well versed in Dodgson’s musical language: Mizerska previously recorded his complete cello and piano works with Emma Abbate while Housden forms part of the Mēla Quartet who recently recorded a rich variety of his guitar chamber works.
