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Dodgson: Mirage - Piano Music

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Composer: Stephen Dodgson
Artist: Osman Tack
Format: CD
Label: SOMM Recordings
Released: Apr 19, 2024
Catalog #: SOMMCD 0684
UPC: 748871068421

About

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).

Dodgson’s Songs Volume 1, The Peasant Poet (SOMMCD 0659) was hailed by Opera Today as “an incredibly interesting and engaging disc… done excellent service by all the performers”. Of Volume 2, The Distances Between (SOMMCD 0673), the British Music Society said “the performances (by some prestigious names) and the warm, lifelike recording are impeccable”.

SOMM’s championing of British song includes Stanford’s Children’s Songs (SOMMCD 0655), “fairly and squarely in the great English song tradition” (MusicWeb International), and Roderick Williams and Susie Allan’s Celebrating English Song (SOMMCD 0177), lauded by Gramophone as “a treat”, and Somervell’s A Shropshire Lad and Maud (SOMMCD 0615), “performances of much beauty, empathy, and sensitivity” (British Music Society).

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Tracklist 25 tracks

1 No. 1. A Leaf in the River 02:20

Track
1

Title
No. 1. A Leaf in the River
Duration
02:20
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
2 No. 2. Shrovetide Procession 02:27

Track
2

Title
No. 2. Shrovetide Procession
Duration
02:27
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
3 No. 3. Il Zoppo 02:03

Track
3

Title
No. 3. Il Zoppo
Duration
02:03
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
4 No. 4. The Storm Comes and Passes 03:46

Track
4

Title
No. 4. The Storm Comes and Passes
Duration
03:46
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
5 No. 5. Crazy Kate 03:16

Track
5

Title
No. 5. Crazy Kate
Duration
03:16
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
6 No. 6. Mirage 02:05

Track
6

Title
No. 6. Mirage
Duration
02:05
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
7 No. 7. Dancers 02:55

Track
7

Title
No. 7. Dancers
Duration
02:55
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
8 No. 8. When all is Quiet 03:19

Track
8

Title
No. 8. When all is Quiet
Duration
03:19
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
9 No. 1. Molto moderato 02:46

Track
9

Title
No. 1. Molto moderato
Duration
02:46
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
10 No. 2. Agitato 01:45

Track
10

Title
No. 2. Agitato
Duration
01:45
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
11 No. 3. Flessibile e drammatico 03:19

Track
11

Title
No. 3. Flessibile e drammatico
Duration
03:19
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
12 No. 4. Poco allegro 02:50

Track
12

Title
No. 4. Poco allegro
Duration
02:50
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
13 No. 1. Allegro 05:48

Track
13

Title
No. 1. Allegro
Duration
05:48
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
14 No. 2. Andante semplice 03:48

Track
14

Title
No. 2. Andante semplice
Duration
03:48
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
15 No. 3. Allegretto 02:41

Track
15

Title
No. 3. Allegretto
Duration
02:41
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
16 I. Allegro moderato 05:34

Track
16

Title
I. Allegro moderato
Duration
05:34
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
17 II. Poco adagio 05:58

Track
17

Title
II. Poco adagio
Duration
05:58
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
18 III. Allegro vivace - Allegretto - Allegro vivace 08:54

Track
18

Title
III. Allegro vivace - Allegretto - Allegro vivace
Duration
08:54
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
19 No. 1. Highly Expressive but Gentle 02:42

Track
19

Title
No. 1. Highly Expressive but Gentle
Duration
02:42
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
20 No. 2. Lazy Pace: Undulating and Songful 01:34

Track
20

Title
No. 2. Lazy Pace: Undulating and Songful
Duration
01:34
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
21 No. 3. Cryptic and Playful 01:23

Track
21

Title
No. 3. Cryptic and Playful
Duration
01:23
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
22 No. 4. Erratic in Motion: Melodramatic 02:22

Track
22

Title
No. 4. Erratic in Motion: Melodramatic
Duration
02:22
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
23 No. 5. Hollow and Stealthy 02:34

Track
23

Title
No. 5. Hollow and Stealthy
Duration
02:34
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
24 No. 6. Molto Perpetuo: Airy and Sparkling 02:42

Track
24

Title
No. 6. Molto Perpetuo: Airy and Sparkling
Duration
02:42
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack
25 Rondo in A-Flat Major 04:40

Track
25

Title
Rondo in A-Flat Major
Duration
04:40
Composer
Stephen Dodgson
Performer
Osman Tack