We are delighted to announce the latest Stephen Dodgson recording. And not only that but that it featured in the ‘Classical New Releases: Spotify Picks’ list and Amazon’s ‘Hot New’ Classical Top 100.
This fifth album in the Toccata Classics survey of Stephen Dodgson’s chamber music offers a second instalment of his many works for woodwinds, as well as a duo for the unusual combination of horn and harp. The pieces are recorded by the young and talented Magnard Ensemble, who recently also recorded the first instalment of Dodgson’s Music for Winds.
Much of the music brings Dodgson’s sense of fun to the fore, often through rhythmic mischief or an insouciance that recalls Poulenc. It can have a spiky vivacity that suggests Janáček, too, and a hint of Baroque formality – but it also has that particularly English strain of lyricism that suggests the impermanence of beauty.
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Magnard Ensemble
Suzannah Clements, flute
Mana Shibata, oboe
Joseph Shiner, clarinet
Catriona McDermid, bassoon
Jonathan Farey, horn
Suling King, piano
Olivia Jageurs, harp
