Ruth Gipps News
English composer
- oboe, piano
- classical music
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- conductor, oboist, composer, music teacher
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2024-03-27
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2023-10-02 07:30:00
RVW, Elena Kats-Chernin & John McCabe's Notturni ed Alba with Donna Lennard from Kensington Symphony Orchestra & Russell Keable
[…] with various aspects of night. Premiered at the 1970 Three Choirs Festival by soprano Sheila Armstrong, to whom it is dedicated, and the City of Birmingham Orchestra, conducted by Louis Frémaux, it has been described as most exotically and seductively beautiful music McCabe has written. Kensington Symphony Orchestra will be joined by soprano Donna Lennard for the performance.Looking ahead, the orchestra's season is full of the exciting, interesting and unusual, with Martinů's Symphony No.3 and Janáček's Taras Bulba (27 November, Cadogan Hall), Ruth Gipps' Horn Concerto (6 February 2024, Cadogan Hall), Dohnányi's Symphonic Minutes plus Mahler, Lili Boulanger and Stravinsky (18 March 2024, St John's Smith Square), Full details from the orchestra's website.
2023-06-16 00:00:00
Hamilton, Gipps, Walthew, Arnold et al: Orchestral and Vocal Works (Alexander Gibson, Norman Del Mar, Robert Plane et al)
Iain Hamilton (1922 - 2000):01 - 05 The Bermudas for baritone, chorus and orchestra, op.33* [26'43]06 - 10 Piano Concerto No. 1^ [23'17]11 - 15 Cantos for horn, tuba, harp and orchestra~ [15'44]Ronald Morrison- baritone, Scottish National Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson*; Margaret Kitchin- piano, Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson^; Douglas Moore- horn, John Fletcher- tuba, Sidonie Goossens- harp, BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar~Lyrita Itter Collection REAM1126 [recorded April 1973*, March 1961^ and August 1965~; download issued 2016][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: BBC Broadcasts from Scotland*^, BBC Promenade concert, Royal Albert Hall, London~Recording engineers and producers: not givenReawakened:01 - 03 Iain Hamilton: Clarinet Concerto, op.7 (1950) [28'36]04 - 06 Richard Walthew (orch. Alfie Pugh): Clarinet Concerto (1902) [16'45]07 - 09 Ruth Gipps: Clarinet Concerto in G minor, op.9 (1940) [18'43]10 John Ireland (orch. Graham Parlett): Fantasy Sonata (1943) [13'33]Robert Plane- […]
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2023-04-15 06:58:54
The fifth symphony by a negleted English composer... The post Ruth Gipps gets a US premiere appeared first on Slippedisc.
2022-10-17 08:21:00
Review of BBC Philharmonic 'centennial' concert
[…] be light on their toes. Ollikainen brought energetic tempi to the first two movements, resulting in playing of incisiveness, vehemence even, and the timps pounded by Paul Turner were emphatically prominent in both. The Adagio was all suavity and songfulness, and the finale eloquent, full of gloriously realized counterpoint and surging and bounding in rhythmic energy to its climax. Before it there were just two short orchestral pieces; the first the overture, Chanticleer, by Ruth Gipps, which the orchestra has recently recorded. Written in 1944, it’s a bit of a stop-start piece, but with plenty of instrumental colour. Oddly enough, its fairly conventional mid-century harmonies end on a strange cadence – as if it was meant to lead straight into the opera it was originally written for. Present-day composer Erland Cooper wrote his Window over Rackwick to a BBC commission, and it had its world premiere in this concert. It’s […]
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