James Gilchrist – Stephen Dodgson: The Peasant Poet Songs, Vol. 1 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

James Gilchrist – Stephen Dodgson: The Peasant Poet Songs, Vol. 1 (2022)
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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.

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Tracklist:

1-1. James Gilchrist – No. 1, Trotty Wagtail (02:34)
1-2. James Gilchrist – No. 2, The Peasant Poet (02:50)
1-3. James Gilchrist – No. 3, Turkeys (01:58)
1-4. James Gilchrist – No. 4, The Fox (03:26)
1-5. Katie Bray – Mrs. Hen (01:21)
1-6. Roderick Williams – Heaven-Haven (02:02)
1-7. Katie Bray – Five Eyes (01:17)
1-8. Ailish Tynan – The Monk and His Cat (03:50)
1-9. Roderick Williams – No. 1, Meet Me in Botany Bay (02:57)
1-10. Roderick Williams – No. 2, The Sick Stockrider (03:20)
1-11. Roderick Williams – No. 3, Holy Dan (03:40)
1-12. Roderick Williams – No. 4, The Style in Which It’s Done (01:13)
1-13. Roderick Williams – No. 5, Old Harry (03:10)
1-14. Roderick Williams – No. 6, The Parson and the Prelate (02:51)
1-15. Christopher Glynn – No. 1, A Leaf in the River (02:11)
1-16. Christopher Glynn – No. 2, Shrovetide Procession (02:40)
1-17. Ailish Tynan – No. 1, Tinkers (01:42)
1-18. Ailish Tynan – No. 2, The Midwife (01:57)
1-19. Ailish Tynan – No. 3, The Mill Girl (01:36)
1-20. Ailish Tynan – No. 4, Rags and Bones (01:06)
1-21. Ailish Tynan – No. 1, Psyche (03:14)
1-22. James Gilchrist – No. 2, The Needle (04:02)
1-23. James Gilchrist – No. 3, The Gypsy (01:26)
1-24. Ailish Tynan – No. 4, Doria (02:21)
1-25. James Gilchrist – Inversnaid (02:05)
1-26. James Gilchrist – Slow, Slow Fresh Fount (03:02)

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