Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works

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The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Rumon Gamba give warm- hearted, energetic, well-paced accounts, and their oboist deserves a special accolade. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 7th Sep 2018
Catalogue No: CHAN20078
Label: Chandos
Length: 69 minutes

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Gipps: Symphony No. 4, Op. 61

Work length32:06

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BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba
Recorded: 12-14 February 2018
Recording Venue: BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, United Kingdom

I. Moderato - Allegro molto

Track length10:02

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II. Adagio - Più mosso

Track length6:47

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III. Scherzo. Allegretto - Poco meno mosso

Track length4:17

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IV. Finale. Andante - Allegro molto

Track length11:00

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Gipps: Knight in Armour, Op. 8

Work length10:00

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Gipps: Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op. 30

Work length21:01

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BBC National Orchestra of Wales
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Recorded: 12-14 February 2018
Recording Venue: BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Moderato

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Allegro moderato - Poco meno

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Andante - Maestoso

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Tempo di marcia

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Adagio

Track length3:09

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Allegro moderato - Tranquillo

Track length2:13

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Moderato - Appassionato

Track length1:43

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Allegro - Più mosso

Track length1:49

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Gipps: Song for Orchestra, Op. 33

Work length6:03

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The unjustly neglected and often dissident music of Ruth Gipps is with this album finding all the resonance it deserves by Rumon Gamba and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, having already championed many British composers from the twentieth century with their series devoted to British Tone Poems and Overtures from the British Isles. While, not surprisingly, there are echoes of the most popular composers of the time – Sibelius, Walton, and Vaughan Williams – the music is notable for its personal voice, confident conception, and vivid writing for the orchestra. Gipps herself actually felt her best works were those for orchestra. In a programme of contrasting impressions and emotions, Symphonies Nos 2 and 4, the former inspired by the Second World War, offer an approachable tuneful idiom. They are complemented by the lyrical, shorter Song for Orchestra and the early tone poem Knight in Armour, premiered at the last Night of the Proms in 1942.

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November 2018

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Rumon Gamba give warm- hearted, energetic, well-paced accounts, and their oboist deserves a special accolade.

September 2018

The two symphonies here testify to a strikingly original voice: the slow movements of each are especially interesting, owing as much to Shostakovich and Ravel respectively as to Gipps’s mentor Vaughan Williams. The cod-medievalism of Knight in Armour (premiered at the Last Night of the Proms in 1942, and studded with modal brass and shawm-like cor anglais solos) is great fun.

7th September 2018

[Knight in Armour], and the single-movement Second Symphony, from 1945, are clearly both indebted to Gipps’s teacher Vaughan Williams, while the Fourth, from 1972, seems to belong securely and less distinctively in the mainstream of mid-century conservative British music.

November 2018

As a calling card for Gipps’s talents, this disc couldn’t be bettered, Rumon Gamba’s well-drilled BBC National Orchestra of wales turning in performances of real polish. All handsomely recorded too.

CD Choice August 2018

In a programme of contrasting impressions and emotions, Symphonies Nos 2 and 4, the former inspired by the Second World War, offer an approachable tuneful idiom. They are complemented by the lyrical, shorter Song for Orchestra and the early tone poem Knight in Armour, premiered at the last Night of the Proms in 1942.

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