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SOMM Recordings announces the launch of a major three-volume series devoted to the rich and varied songs of Stephen Dodgson on the eve of the 10th anniversary of his death in 2013, aged 89. Son of the Symbolist painter John Arthur Dodgson and a distant cousin of Lewis Carroll, Stephen Dodgson was a prolific composer with a notable focus on works for guitar, harpsichord and recorder. Although neglected, his more than 100 songs are a substantial and defining part of his output.
Composed in 1961, The Peasant Poet from Four Poems of John Clare, settings of the troubled and travailed poet, gives this first volume its title. Contrastingly, 1950’s Tideways sets four poems by the idiosyncratic Ezra Pound. The six songs from Dodgson’s 1998 second series of Australian Bush Ballads "makes use of his own melodic style, graceful, elegant or sharply original and witty… with expressive accompaniments, sometimes simple, sometimes richly chromatic", as John Warrack comments in his booklet notes, supplemented by Robert Matthew-Walker’s informative note on Dodgson’s style.
Writing in his native Gaelige, Irish playwright and political activist Joseph Campbell prompted 1949’s Irishry, the late The Monk and His Cat from 2004 returning to Ireland to animatedly set a playful ninth-century text. Seven other songs, drawn from a variety of sources and voiced with appropriate individuality, complete a recital that eloquently argues for Dodgson’s place amongst the best of modern British art-song composers. © SOMM Recordings
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4 Poems of John Clare (Stephen Dodgson)
John Clare, Lyricist - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Mark Eden, Artist, MainArtist
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John Clare, Lyricist - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Mark Eden, Artist, MainArtist
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John Clare, Lyricist - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Mark Eden, Artist, MainArtist
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John Clare, Lyricist - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Mark Eden, Artist, MainArtist
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Mrs. Hen (Stephen Dodgson)
Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist - Katie Bray, Artist, MainArtist
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Heaven-Haven (Stephen Dodgson)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lyricist - Roderick Williams, Artist, MainArtist - Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist
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Five Eyes (Stephen Dodgson)
Walter de la Mare, Lyricist - Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist - Katie Bray, Artist, MainArtist
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The Monk and his Cat (Stephen Dodgson)
Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Ian Wilson, Artist, MainArtist - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist - Ailish Tynan, Artist, MainArtist
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Bush Ballads (Second Series) (Stephen Dodgson)
Roderick Williams, Artist, MainArtist - Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist
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Roderick Williams, Artist, MainArtist - Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist - Adam Lindsay Gordon, Lyricist
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Roderick Williams, Artist, MainArtist - Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist
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Roderick Williams, Artist, MainArtist - Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist
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David Campbell, Lyricist - Roderick Williams, Artist, MainArtist - Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist
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Roderick Williams, Artist, MainArtist - Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist - Victor J. Daley, Lyricist
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8 Fanciful Pieces (Excerpts) (Stephen Dodgson)
Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist
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Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist
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Irishry (Stephen Dodgson)
Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Joseph Campbell, Lyricist - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist - Ailish Tynan, Artist, MainArtist
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Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Joseph Campbell, Lyricist - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist - Ailish Tynan, Artist, MainArtist
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Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Joseph Campbell, Lyricist - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist - Ailish Tynan, Artist, MainArtist
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Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Joseph Campbell, Lyricist - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist - Ailish Tynan, Artist, MainArtist
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Tideways (Stephen Dodgson)
Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist - Ailish Tynan, Artist, MainArtist - Ezra Pound, Lyricist
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James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist - Ezra Pound, Lyricist
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James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist - Ezra Pound, Lyricist
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Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist - Ailish Tynan, Artist, MainArtist - Ezra Pound, Lyricist
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Inversnaid (Stephen Dodgson)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lyricist - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist
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Slow, slow fresh fount (Stephen Dodgson)
ben jonson, Lyricist - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Stephen Dodgson, Composer - Christopher Glynn, Artist, MainArtist
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Album review
SOMM Recordings announces the launch of a major three-volume series devoted to the rich and varied songs of Stephen Dodgson on the eve of the 10th anniversary of his death in 2013, aged 89. Son of the Symbolist painter John Arthur Dodgson and a distant cousin of Lewis Carroll, Stephen Dodgson was a prolific composer with a notable focus on works for guitar, harpsichord and recorder. Although neglected, his more than 100 songs are a substantial and defining part of his output.
Composed in 1961, The Peasant Poet from Four Poems of John Clare, settings of the troubled and travailed poet, gives this first volume its title. Contrastingly, 1950’s Tideways sets four poems by the idiosyncratic Ezra Pound. The six songs from Dodgson’s 1998 second series of Australian Bush Ballads "makes use of his own melodic style, graceful, elegant or sharply original and witty… with expressive accompaniments, sometimes simple, sometimes richly chromatic", as John Warrack comments in his booklet notes, supplemented by Robert Matthew-Walker’s informative note on Dodgson’s style.
Writing in his native Gaelige, Irish playwright and political activist Joseph Campbell prompted 1949’s Irishry, the late The Monk and His Cat from 2004 returning to Ireland to animatedly set a playful ninth-century text. Seven other songs, drawn from a variety of sources and voiced with appropriate individuality, complete a recital that eloquently argues for Dodgson’s place amongst the best of modern British art-song composers. © SOMM Recordings
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 26 track(s)
- Total length: 01:03:51
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artist: James Gilchrist
- Composer: Stephen Dodgson
- Label: SOMM Recordings
- Genre: Classical
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