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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.
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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.
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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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Margaret Catchpole – The Oldie review
June 08, 2021
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Fletcher’s expertly crafted distillation of Cobbold’s novel is set by Dodgson to music that’s as telling as it is unobtrusive ... Dodgson’s compositions went wider and deeper than any of us imagined ... Like Britten, he had the gift of needing very few instrument – Margaret Catchpole is scored for just 11 players – to paint pictures and distil moods.
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Margaret Catchpole – Gramophone review
April 25, 2021
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There is a wonderful limpidity to Dodgson’s vocal lines, the words … always clearly audible and never obscured by the accompanying ensemble... The fanciful ending... is wonderfully poetic in Dodgson’s sunlit setting.
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7:30 pm Essay No. 7 – Academy of St Mart... @ St Mary's Barnes
Essay No. 7 – Academy of St Mart... @ St Mary's Barnes 
Mar 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
The 2025 Barnes Music Festival opens with a captivating concert led by the world-renowned Academy of St Martin in the Fields. The ensemble is joined by acclaimed international tenor Ed Lyon and star horn player and artist in residence, Ben Goldscheider. The evening begins with Stephen Dodgson’s evocative Essay No. 7, followed by Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings. Mozart’s sparkling Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat major features beautiful interplay between soloist and orchestra. The concert concludes with Holst’s beloved St Paul’s Suite, a work filled with energy and rich folk-inspired melodies, capturing the spirit of community at[...]
