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New release – ‘Tournament for Twenty Fingers’ piano duets
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.
Continue Reading →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.
Continue Reading →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.
Continue Reading →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!'
Continue Reading →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.
Continue Reading →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.
Continue Reading →Duo Guitartes ‘Colloquy’ and Promenade review – British Music Society
April 06, 2021
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Dodgson’s Promenade is mostly contrapuntal and energetic but with some delightful, lyrical moments making it varied and captivating throughout.
Continue Reading →New release: Duo Guitartes ‘Colloquy’ and Promenade I
March 29, 2021
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Announcing the release of 'Colloquy', a disc of guitar compositions and arrangements from the Renaissance up to the present day featuring Stephen Dodgson's Promenade I.
Continue Reading →Presto interview – Julian Perkins on Stephen Dodgson and Margaret Catchpole
March 15, 2021
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An interview with conductor Julian Perkins about his friendship with Stephen Dodgson, the imaginative depictions of contrasting characters and landscapes in Margaret Catchpole, the composers whose influences can be felt in its soundworld, and plans for more recordings of Dodgson's music...
Continue Reading →Upcoming Events
May
8
Fri
2026
7:30 pm
‘Dormi Jesu’ – LFCCM opening night
@ St Paul's Knightsbridge
‘Dormi Jesu’ – LFCCM opening night
@ St Paul's Knightsbridge
May 8 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
The London Festival of Contemporary Church Music opens on Friday 8th May with ‘Arise, My Darling’, a concert from stellar London chamber choir Pegasus. The evening explores a range of sacred works by modern composers and includes Stephen Dodgson’s ‘Dormi Jesu’. This beautiful simple soprano-alto-tenor miniature mixes medieval harmonies with hint of modernism to produce an exquisite vision of the Virgin Mary nurturing the young Christ child.