℗ 2023 SOMM Recordings
Released | August 18, 2023 |
Duration | 1h 10m 45s |
Record Label | SOMM Recordings |
Catalogue No. | SOMMCD 0673 |
Genre | Classical (Art Song) |
Stephen Dodgson: The Distances Between, Songs, Vol. 2
Various Artists
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
The Distances Between
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1.1
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I. Prologue (To Hedli)
Stephen Dodgson; Louis MacNeice; Ailish Tynan; Marcus Farnsworth; Christopher Glynn |
1:19 | |||
1.2
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II. April Fool
Stephen Dodgson; Louis MacNeice; Ailish Tynan; Marcus Farnsworth; Christopher Glynn |
2:35 | |||
1.3
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III. Dreams in Middle Age
Stephen Dodgson; Louis MacNeice; Ailish Tynan; Marcus Farnsworth; Christopher Glynn |
6:12 | |||
1.4
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IV. Invocation
Stephen Dodgson; Louis MacNeice; Ailish Tynan; Marcus Farnsworth; Christopher Glynn |
3:15 | |||
1.5
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V. Visitation
Stephen Dodgson; Louis MacNeice; Ailish Tynan; Marcus Farnsworth; Christopher Glynn |
5:59 | |||
Bagatelle No. 2
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1.6
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Serene but Sad (after Selevan's Threnody)
Stephen Dodgson; Christopher Glynn |
3:45 | |||
Bagatelle No. 3
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1.7
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Restless and Searching
Stephen Dodgson; Christopher Glynn |
2:48 | |||
1.8
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The Lamb
Stephen Dodgson; William Blake; Ailish Tynan; Christopher Glynn |
3:16 | |||
1.9
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Song for Eve
Stephen Dodgson; Anne Hunter; Ailish Tynan; Christopher Glynn |
3:20 | |||
1.10
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Lachrymae
Stephen Dodgson; David Gascoyne; Ailish Tynan; Christopher Glynn |
3:12 | |||
Bagatelle No. 4
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1.11
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Languid but Visionary
Stephen Dodgson; Christopher Glynn |
2:53 | |||
Bagatelle No. 5
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1.12
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Alert and Mischievous
Stephen Dodgson; Christopher Glynn |
1:43 | |||
Bush Ballads (First Series)
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1.13
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I. The Bushranger
Stephen Dodgson; Kenneth Slessor; Katie Bray; Christopher Glynn |
2:06 | |||
1.14
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II. Christmas
Stephen Dodgson; David Martin; Katie Bray; Christopher Glynn |
3:43 | |||
1.15
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III. Woman at the Washtub
Stephen Dodgson; Victor Daley; Katie Bray; Christopher Glynn |
4:19 | |||
1.16
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The Sunflower
Stephen Dodgson; Peter Quennell; Ailish Tynan; Christopher Glynn |
1:05 | |||
1.17
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A Gypsy Prayer
Stephen Dodgson; Traditional; Ailish Tynan; Christopher Glynn |
1:57 | |||
Riley & Co.
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1.18
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I. Riley
Stephen Dodgson; Charles Causley; Marcus Farnsworth; Mark Eden; Ian Wilson |
3:39 | |||
1.19
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II. Timothy Winters
Stephen Dodgson; Charles Causley; Marcus Farnsworth; Mark Eden; Ian Wilson |
4:49 | |||
1.20
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III. Bamboo Dance
Stephen Dodgson; Charles Causley; Marcus Farnsworth; Mark Eden; Ian Wilson |
4:50 | |||
1.21
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IV. Rocco
Stephen Dodgson; Charles Causley; Marcus Farnsworth; Mark Eden; Ian Wilson |
4:00 | |||
Digital Booklet
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SOMM Recordings announces The Distances Between, the second volume of songs – including 17 first recordings – by Stephen Dodgson marking the 10th anniversary of his death. The Distances Between features soprano Ailish Tynan, mezzo-soprano Katie Bray and baritone Marcus Farnsworth, accompanied by Christopher Glynn (piano), Mark Eden (guitar) and Ian Wilson (recorder). All but Farnsworth are returning from Volume 1. Son of 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. His more than 100 overlooked songs are a substantial and defining part of his output. The Distances Between (1969-88), sets five poems by Louis MacNeice – “a ‘natural’ for music with his keen ear for rhyme and rhythm, his sly verbal colour”, Dodgson approvingly wrote – for soprano, baritone and piano. Three songs for mezzo-soprano and piano from the first series of Bush Ballads (1974) are “character songs” taken from Australian poets and marked by sly wit and a rather macabre finale. Setting Charles Causley, Riley & Co. (2009) for baritone, guitar and recorder is a compendium of four pithily told but evocative ballads. Five other solo variegated songs and four preludial piano Bagatelles make much of what Robert Matthew-Walker’s informative notes describe as Dodgson’s “inherent creative language [and] fluent expressive lines”.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – SOMM Recordings Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -6.91 -15.01 to -0.24 | -31.55 -39.23 to -26.92 | -27.12 -34.00 to -21.90 | 15 12 to 17 | |
1 | I. Prologue (To Hedli) | -0.24 | -28.14 | -23.6 | 15 |
2 | II. April Fool | -1.73 | -26.92 | -22.9 | 15 |
3 | III. Dreams in Middle Age | -3.80 | -29.18 | -23.7 | 16 |
4 | IV. Invocation | -7.91 | -34.63 | -29.7 | 15 |
5 | V. Visitation | -5.40 | -29.81 | -24.9 | 15 |
6 | Serene but Sad (after Selevan's Threnody) | -10.84 | -36.40 | -31.7 | 15 |
7 | Restless and Searching | -9.21 | -33.67 | -29.8 | 16 |
8 | The Lamb | -7.12 | -31.55 | -27.0 | 14 |
9 | Song for Eve | -2.03 | -29.99 | -25.7 | 17 |
10 | Lachrymae | -4.36 | -29.82 | -25.1 | 15 |
11 | Languid but Visionary | -15.01 | -39.23 | -34.0 | 14 |
12 | Alert and Mischievous | -9.58 | -34.06 | -30.1 | 16 |
13 | I. The Bushranger | -6.07 | -29.16 | -25.6 | 14 |
14 | II. Christmas | -10.24 | -35.73 | -31.3 | 15 |
15 | III. Woman at the Washtub | -3.45 | -29.24 | -24.1 | 15 |
16 | The Sunflower | -2.38 | -27.24 | -21.9 | 14 |
17 | A Gypsy Prayer | -6.22 | -29.36 | -25.3 | 12 |
18 | I. Riley | -11.31 | -32.03 | -28.4 | 13 |
19 | II. Timothy Winters | -7.39 | -29.66 | -25.4 | 14 |
20 | III. Bamboo Dance | -11.91 | -34.58 | -30.9 | 14 |
21 | IV. Rocco | -8.96 | -32.15 | -28.4 | 15 |