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Special offer. Dodgson: Margaret Catchpole - Two Worlds Apart

William Wallace (tenor), Nicholas Morris (bass), Kate Howden (soprano), Michael Bundy (bass), Jonathan Hanley (tenor), Mark Saberton (baritone), Robyn Allegra Parton (soprano), Leonora Dawson-Bowling (mezzo-soprano), Alistair Ollerenshaw (baritone), Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor), Peter Willcock (bass),...

Dodgson: Margaret Catchpole - Two Worlds Apart
Australian mezzo-soprano Kate Howden provides Antipodean representation – and much more besides – as Catchpole. William Wallace beguiles as bad boy Will Laud and Alistair Ollerenshaw is strong...

BBC Music Magazine, March 20215 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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Special offer. Dodgson: Margaret Catchpole - Two Worlds Apart

William Wallace (tenor), Nicholas Morris (bass), Kate Howden (soprano), Michael Bundy (bass), Jonathan Hanley (tenor), Mark Saberton (baritone), Robyn Allegra Parton (soprano), Leonora Dawson-Bowling (mezzo-soprano), Alistair Ollerenshaw (baritone), Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor), Peter Willcock (bass),...

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Australian mezzo-soprano Kate Howden provides Antipodean representation – and much more besides – as Catchpole. William Wallace beguiles as bad boy Will Laud and Alistair Ollerenshaw is strong...

BBC Music Magazine, March 20215 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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Among Stephen Dodgson's portfolio of more than 250 works are chamber operas, of which Margaret Catchpole: Two Worlds Apart is a most striking example. It is based on the true story of a woman who was convicted of the then capital crime of horse stealing and transported to Australia, and Dodgson conveys the romance and drama of the story with characteristic lyricism and rhythmic energy. Words are paramount for Dodgson, and his setting is vivid, immediate and tonal, with some swaggering rustic moments amidst the precise characterisation and idiomatic instrumental writing.

Artists

William Wallace (tenor), Nicholas Morris (bass), Kate Howden (soprano), Michael Bundy (bass), Jonathan Hanley (tenor), Mark Saberton (baritone), Robyn Allegra Parton (soprano), Leonora Dawson-Bowling (mezzo-soprano), Alistair Ollerenshaw (baritone), Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor), Peter Willcock (bass), Diana Moore (mezzo-soprano), Matthew Brook (bass), Jon Stainsby (baritone), Perpetuo, Julian Perkins

  • Release date: 29th Jan 2021
  • Label: Naxos
  • Catalogue number: 8660459-61
  • Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Dodgson: Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act I
Work length2:25
Introduction
Track length2:25
Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act I Scene 1
Work length25:43
  • William Wallace (tenor), Nicholas Morris (bass), Kate Howden (soprano), Michael Bundy (bass), Jonathan Hanley (tenor), Mark Saberton (baritone), Robyn Allegra Parton (soprano), Leonora Dawson-Bowling (mezzo-soprano), Alistair Ollerenshaw (baritone)
What an Almighty Fuss
Track length1:34
For So Many Years
Track length2:09
Oh Harvest Moon
Track length5:25
Under That Far and Shining Sky
Track length1:35
The Harvest Is Ended
Track length2:18
Oh, My Goodness Gracious! Look!
Track length2:23
Margaret?
Track length3:38
The Ripen'd Corn in Sheaves Is Born
Track length5:10
Interlude
Track length1:31
Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act I Scene 2
Work length17:32
  • Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor)
Seasons Come, Seasons Go
Track length4:43
Who's There?
Track length5:15
Come, Will. Enough's Enough
Track length1:24
No! No!
Track length0:58
Back You Devils
Track length5:12
Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act II Scene 1
Work length12:45
  • Peter Willcock (bass), Diana Moore (mezzo-soprano)
You Are Young
Track length4:24
Ah! Dr. Stebbing and Mr. Barry
Track length6:53
Interlude
Track length1:28
Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act II Scene 2
Work length18:51
I Don't Care What You Think
Track length2:25
Come In, Margaret
Track length6:29
Come Then, Alice
Track length8:46
Interlude
Track length1:11
Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act II Scene 3
Work length10:47
Luff? Are You There?
Track length5:43
Heard You That, Old Man?
Track length3:21
Interlude
Track length1:43
Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act II Scene 4
Work length3:16
Impossible. Impossible!
Track length3:16
Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act II
Work length1:59
Postlude
Track length1:59
Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act III Scene 1
Work length16:46
Prisoner at the Bar
Track length2:38
My Lord, My Testimony Has Said I Am Her Employer
Track length2:16
Conscience Insists, My Lord
Track length5:13
Interlude I
Track length1:45
Oh, Mistress!
Track length3:31
Interlude II
Track length1:23
Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act III Scene 2
Work length10:43
  • Jon Stainsby (baritone)
Good Conduct, Margaret
Track length2:44
Margaret... Can It Be You?
Track length5:03
Interlude
Track length2:56
Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act III Scene 3
Work length8:12
We're Clear Now
Track length3:18
Oh Joy of Freedom!
Track length3:15
I Know, I Know
Track length0:58
Interlude
Track length0:41
Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act III Scene 4
Work length7:53
Prisoner at the Bar
Track length1:18
My Lord, Always to This Court I Have Confessed My Guilt
Track length5:45
Interlude
Track length0:50
Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act III Scene 5
Work length5:52
Mrs. Cobbold... Before You Speak
Track length3:55
In My Loneliness
Track length1:57
Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act IV
Work length1:05
Introduction
Track length1:05
Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act IV Scene 1
Work length12:18
  • Julia Sporsén (soprano)
What a Joy!
Track length3:21
Ever Since I Came to This New Land
Track length4:17
Mrs. Palmer, Forgive Me
Track length3:09
Interlude
Track length1:31
Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act IV Scene 2
Work length11:20
Come In, Margaret
Track length5:25
John... Oh, I Never Thought to See You Again
Track length4:28
Interlude
Track length1:27
Margaret Catchpole, Two Worlds Apart, Act IV Scene 3
Work length7:40
Oh John... I Am Almost Afraid
Track length3:27
Oh, Distant Moon
Track length4:13

Spotlight on this release

  • Julian Perkins on Stephen Dodgson

    11th Mar 2021by Katherine Cooper

    The conductor talks to Katherine about the world première recording of the 1979 chamber-opera Margaret Catchpole, which tells the story of a Suffolk servant-girl who was deported to Australia for stealing a horse in the late eighteenth century.

    Classical Interview

Awards and reviews

March 2021

Australian mezzo-soprano Kate Howden provides Antipodean representation – and much more besides – as Catchpole. William Wallace beguiles as bad boy Will Laud and Alistair Ollerenshaw is strong as the reliable, eventual ‘public benefactor’ John Barry. Unusually for an opera with an eponymous heroine, there’s even a happy ending.
5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

May 2021

The Perpetuo ensemble play beautifully throughout, the whole directed impeccably by Julian Perkins.

August 2021

Small gestures make an effect, and he uses his limited forces (11 players, skilfully marshalled here under Julian Perkins) with discretion…Howden colours in the determination of Catchpole herself. The tenor William Wallace maintains a convincingly lyrical approach as her dubious (if not disastrous) admirer Will Laud.
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