Mirage - Piano Music By Stephen Dodgson

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SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce the release 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 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 the Six Bagatelles composed between 1998 and 2005 when "his inspiration burned brightly in his eighties". Also included are the "vastly impressive" Piano Sonata No.7 (Dodgson's last) from 2003; the "significant" Three Impromptus (1962, revised 1985), and the varied, impressionistic Four Moods of the Wind Suite (1968). A bonus track, the Rondo in A flat from 1953, will be available for downloading on digital platforms. Osman Tack is a former Chandos Young Musician of the Year who has performed throughout the UK and internationally as a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician (having won the Pro-Corda Festival competition).