Tipett Quartet - DODGSON:CHAMBER MUSIC VOL. 2

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, Jan�?ek�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.