Dodgson: Chamber Music, Vol. 4

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
March 15, 2019
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DODGSON, STEPHEN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Magnard Ensemble
    • PERFORMER
      Howden
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 15, 2019
    • UPC
      5060113444530
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0453
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Vivace

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Ensemble: Magnard Ensemble

    2. II. Lento e sostenuto

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Ensemble: Magnard Ensemble

    3. III. Allegro non troppo, giocoso

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Ensemble: Magnard Ensemble

    4. No. 1. A Tattered Nation

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Performer: Kate Howden, Joseph Shiner, Suling King

    5. No. 2. Ptolemy's Bells

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Performer: Kate Howden, Joseph Shiner, Suling King

    6. No. 3. The Lord Treasurer's Fortune Is Told

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Performer: Kate Howden, Joseph Shiner, Suling King

    7. No. 4. The Faery Beam upon You

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Performer: Kate Howden, Joseph Shiner, Suling King

    8. I. Lively and accented

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Ensemble: Magnard Ensemble

    9. II. Songful and expressive

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Ensemble: Magnard Ensemble

    10. III. Bright and playful

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Ensemble: Magnard Ensemble

    11. I. Allegro non tanto

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Performer: Jonathan Farey, Suling King

    12. II. Andantino

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Performer: Jonathan Farey, Suling King

    13. III. Moderato e maestoso

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Performer: Jonathan Farey, Suling King

    14. I. Prelude

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Performer: Mana Shibata, Catriona McDermid, Suling King

    15. II. Fly-by-Night

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Performer: Mana Shibata, Catriona McDermid, Suling King

    16. III. Variations

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Performer: Mana Shibata, Catriona McDermid, Suling King

    17. I. First Light

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Ensemble: Magnard Ensemble

    18. II. Scamper

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Ensemble: Magnard Ensemble

    19. III. Sommeil

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Ensemble: Magnard Ensemble

    20. IV. Mischief

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Ensemble: Magnard Ensemble

    21. V. Pigeon Chorus

      Composer: Stephen Dodgson

      Ensemble: Magnard Ensemble


This fourth album in the Toccata Classics survey of the chamber music of London-born Stephen Dodgson (1924–2013) offers a first installment of his many works for woodwinds. Much of it brings Dodgson’s sense of fun to the fore, often through rhythmic mischief or an insouciance that recalls Poulenc, but it also has that particularly English strain of lyricism that suggests the impermanence of beauty. British composer and broadcaster Stephen Dodgson’s prolific musical output covered most genres, ranging from opera and large-scale orchestral music to chamber and instrumental music, as well as choral works and song. He wrote in a tonal, though sometimes unconventional, idiom. Paul Griffiths, in The Oxford Companion to Music, writes that Dodgson “proved adept at producing likable, well-crafted music to order, often for unusual chamber ensembles.”