748871065925

Stephen Dodgson: The Peasant Poet - Songs, Volume 1

Ailish Tynan; Katie Bray; James Gilchrist; Roderick Williams; Christopher Glynn; Mark Eden; Ian Wil

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Format: CD

Cat No: SOMMCD0659

Release Date:  18 November 2022

Label:  Somm - Cd / Somm Recordings

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  748871065925

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

Composer/Series:  Stephen Dodgson

  • Description

    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. Volume 1, The Peasant Poet, features tenor James Gilchrist, baritone Roderick Williams, soprano Ailish Tynan and mezzo-soprano Katie Bray, accompanied by Christopher Glynn (piano), Mark Eden (guitar) and Ian Wilson (recorder). 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 Volume 1 its title. Contrastingly, 1950’s Tideways sets four poems by the idiosyncratic Ezra Pound.

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