We’re delighted to announce the SOMM Recordings release on 20th April of ‘Mirage’, a recital of piano music by Stephen Dodgson performed by Osman Tack in his impressive label debut.Featuring 24 first recordings, Mirage is the third volume in a series marking the 10th anniversary of Dodgson’s death in 2013, and celebrates a composer of “urbane and civilised” music, as Robert Matthew-Walker describes it in his informative booklet notes.
The recital spans seven decades from 1956’s ‘Eight Fanciful Preludes’ – “a judiciously varied suite… bound by the directness of utterance that so distinguished Dodgson’s music” – to his second set of ‘Six Bagatelles’ composed in 2005 when “his inspiration burned brightly in his eighties”.
