Composer: Stephen Dodgson
Performer: Emma Abbate, Susan Monks
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0357
Release: 2017
Size: 734 MB
Recovery: +3%
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Piano Quintet No. 1
01. I. Largo e sostenuto – Allegro con brio
02. II. Andantino
03. III. Allegro assai
04. IV. Maestoso
String Quintet
05. I. Allegro moderato
06. II. Andante
07. III. Allegretto
Piano Quintet No. 2
08. I. Allegro comodo
09. II. Alla fantasia – Allegretto
10. III. Moderato e pesante
These three quintets by the London-born Stephen Dodgson (1924–2013) continue the exploration of his chamber music on Toccata Classics. Dodgson’s musical language inherited something of Shostakovich’s irony, Janáček’s spiky energy and Britten’s polished clarity, occasionally reaching further into the past in passages of Purcellian dignity. All these characteristics are animated with a gentle harmonic warmth of Dodgson’s own. The result, in a typically English paradox, manages to be both elusive and direct. All three quintets are receiving their first recordings here.