Ruth Gipps (1921-99)

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Roy Bland

#180
October 28, 2024, 06:36:09 PM

Oates

#181
January 16, 2025, 12:27:20 AM
Quote from: Symphonic Addict on October 28, 2024, 10:09:49 AMFor January 3 2025:



I am playing this wonderful CD at the moment. However, Chandos is claiming that Ambarvalia is one of the "Premiere Recordings" when in fact it was first recorded in 2019 and released on this CD:




https://somm-recordings.com/recording/piano-concertos-by-dora-bright-and-ruth-gipps/

The earlier version is around 40s longer. Ambarvalia is a late work by Gipps and seems to capture the best of the pastoral moods from half a century earlier. 

Roasted Swan

#182
January 16, 2025, 12:31:54 AM
Quote from: Oates on January 16, 2025, 12:27:20 AMI am playing this wonderful CD at the moment. However, Chandos is claiming that Ambarvalia is one of the "Premiere Recordings" when in fact it was first recorded in 2019 and released on this CD:




https://somm-recordings.com/recording/piano-concertos-by-dora-bright-and-ruth-gipps/

The earlier version is around 40s longer. Ambarvalia is a late work by Gipps and seems to capture the best of the pastoral moods from half a century earlier. 

Oops!

Oates

#183
January 16, 2025, 05:39:57 AM
I should add that Ruth Gipps' 1st Symphony is brilliant. It is a tragedy that it was rejected after one performance and has remained unheard since 1945 (although it may have had some low-key concert outings in the meantime).

Harry

#184
January 16, 2025, 06:35:01 AM
Quote from: Oates on January 16, 2025, 05:39:57 AMI should add that Ruth Gipps' 1st Symphony is brilliant. It is a tragedy that it was rejected after one performance and has remained unheard since 1945 (although it may have had some low-key concert outings in the meantime).

Totally agree. I was flabbergasted too, when I heard the first Symphony. The good thing is that her works are performed and recorded again, something on which I waited a long long time.
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

Harry

#185
January 16, 2025, 06:38:14 AM
Quote from: Oates on January 16, 2025, 12:27:20 AMI am playing this wonderful CD at the moment. However, Chandos is claiming that Ambarvalia is one of the "Premiere Recordings" when in fact it was first recorded in 2019 and released on this CD:




https://somm-recordings.com/recording/piano-concertos-by-dora-bright-and-ruth-gipps/

The earlier version is around 40s longer. Ambarvalia is a late work by Gipps and seems to capture the best of the pastoral moods from half a century earlier. 


Bookmarked. Dora Bright was a composer also unknown to me, and I cannot let that happen, now can I!
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

Roy Bland

#186
January 16, 2025, 07:23:47 AM Last Edit: January 16, 2025, 06:19:33 PM by Roy Bland
Quote from: Harry on January 16, 2025, 06:38:14 AMBookmarked. Dora Bright was a composer also unknown to me, and I cannot let that happen, now can I!
I appreciate highly both works and performances  female composers are shamefully underrated (for instance Gurne Creith's violin concerto is very lyrical)

Christo

#187
January 16, 2025, 10:47:39 AM
Quote from: Oates on January 16, 2025, 05:39:57 AMI should add that Ruth Gipps' 1st Symphony is brilliant. It is a tragedy that it was rejected after one performance and has remained unheard since 1945 (although it may have had some low-key concert outings in the meantime).
Amen. Flabbergasted. One of the finest composers of all fine composers I know -- honestly.
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Albion

#188
February 02, 2025, 11:59:54 AM
Coming soon from Chandos -

A piece is worth your attention, and is itself for you praiseworthy, if it makes you feel you have not wasted your time over it. (SG, 1922)

Harry

#189
February 02, 2025, 12:39:58 PM
Quote from: Albion on February 02, 2025, 11:59:54 AMComing soon from Chandos -



Perfect, wonderful news
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

Roy Bland

#190
February 02, 2025, 05:30:38 PM
Quote from: Harry on February 02, 2025, 12:39:58 PMPerfect, wonderful news
It is particularly positive to carry out a project quickly hoping that CPO you imitate with Kauffmann and that someone does the same for Tailleferre

Roy Bland

#191
March 15, 2025, 08:28:48 PM
Why there isn't still exact contains (tracks)?

Oates

#192
March 28, 2025, 10:37:47 AM
Quote from: Albion on February 02, 2025, 11:59:54 AMComing soon from Chandos -



The audio samples of this CD are now uploaded on the Chandos website and it sounds like another winner to me! As well as the items mentioned on the CD cover, it also includes Missa brevis for Orchestra.

https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2020319

Symphonic Addict

#193
March 28, 2025, 11:06:57 AM
The whole Missa brevis is actually the 4th movement of the Fifth Symphony.
The current annihilation of a people on this planet (you know which one it is) is the most documented and at the same time the most preposterously denied. The terror IS REAL!

Oates

#194
April 11, 2025, 09:18:41 AM
My mistake then - it looked odd being split into 6 sections after three longer movements.

Christo

#195
April 11, 2025, 09:44:23 AM
Quote from: Oates on January 16, 2025, 12:27:20 AMI am playing this wonderful CD at the moment. However, Chandos is claiming that Ambarvalia is one of the "Premiere Recordings" when in fact it was first recorded in 2019 and released on this CD:

https://somm-recordings.com/recording/piano-concertos-by-dora-bright-and-ruth-gipps/
The earlier version is around 40s longer. Ambarvalia is a late work by Gipps and seems to capture the best of the pastoral moods from half a century earlier.
The earlier version on this Somm CD by the Liverpudlians under Charles Peebles is simply better, IMHO. It has all the tempi right & is able to move me to tears.
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Roasted Swan

#196
April 17, 2025, 01:50:29 AM
Just completed my first listen to



I have enjoyed all the series to date but this is really lovely.  If you already like Gipps music/aesthetic/soundworld you will love this.  She might not have anything radical or revolutionary to say but she writes in her chosen idiom with great skill and attractive appeal.  The Concerto does sound like the full-scale concerto RVW never wrote and there is a visionary quality that shares a kinship with his 5th Symphony I thought.  Very well played by all - soloist Charlie Lovell-Jones excellent but also more relaxed and rhapsodic (as suits the work) here than he was in his slightly forced Walton Concerto.  The contra-bassoon work is a charmer too but for me the highlight is the Symphony 5.  It feels very comfortable with itself - radiant and serene.  As I said, I have enjoyed all the discs to date but - I'm slightly surprised to say this - this might just be one of my favourites with every work a discovery.  Gamba, the BBC PO and the Chandos engineering are as fine as ever.  Now the symphonies are all recorded will there be a Vol.5?

Harry

#197
April 17, 2025, 02:25:58 AM
Quote from: Roasted Swan on April 17, 2025, 01:50:29 AMJust completed my first listen to



I have enjoyed all the series to date but this is really lovely.  If you already like Gipps music/aesthetic/soundworld you will love this.  She might not have anything radical or revolutionary to say but she writes in her chosen idiom with great skill and attractive appeal.  The Concerto does sound like the full-scale concerto RVW never wrote and there is a visionary quality that shares a kinship with his 5th Symphony I thought.  Very well played by all - soloist Charlie Lovell-Jones excellent but also more relaxed and rhapsodic (as suits the work) here than he was in his slightly forced Walton Concerto.  The contra-bassoon work is a charmer too but for me the highlight is the Symphony 5.  It feels very comfortable with itself - radiant and serene.  As I said, I have enjoyed all the discs to date but - I'm slightly surprised to say this - this might just be one of my favourites with every work a discovery.  Gamba, the BBC PO and the Chandos engineering are as fine as ever.  Now the symphonies are all recorded will there be a Vol.5?

Nice review!
Of course there will be a Volume 5, "We willed it" It is our command!
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

Roy Bland

#198
April 17, 2025, 04:02:25 AM
I will add Myriam Hyde, Jean Coulthard ,Ina Boyle and Avril Coleridge-Taylor

Oates

#199
April 17, 2025, 04:44:11 AM
Quote from: Roasted Swan on April 17, 2025, 01:50:29 AMJust completed my first listen to



I have enjoyed all the series to date but this is really lovely.  If you already like Gipps music/aesthetic/soundworld you will love this.  She might not have anything radical or revolutionary to say but she writes in her chosen idiom with great skill and attractive appeal.  The Concerto does sound like the full-scale concerto RVW never wrote and there is a visionary quality that shares a kinship with his 5th Symphony I thought.  Very well played by all - soloist Charlie Lovell-Jones excellent but also more relaxed and rhapsodic (as suits the work) here than he was in his slightly forced Walton Concerto.  The contra-bassoon work is a charmer too but for me the highlight is the Symphony 5.  It feels very comfortable with itself - radiant and serene.  As I said, I have enjoyed all the discs to date but - I'm slightly surprised to say this - this might just be one of my favourites with every work a discovery.  Gamba, the BBC PO and the Chandos engineering are as fine as ever.  Now the symphonies are all recorded will there be a Vol.5?

I've just been playing this this morning and I concur with every word. An outstanding disc in an already outstanding series. As for further discs, there's a lot left to record and no one has touched her choral works yet.
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