Special offer. Gipps: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
Juliana Koch (oboe), BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
Each of this foursome, the bulk from the 1940s, offers pungent and individual delights...Throughout the album the BBC Philharmonic plays with bright colours, a sharp attack and swaggering energy...
Special offer. Gipps: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
Juliana Koch (oboe), BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
Purchase product
Awards:
-
Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
Each of this foursome, the bulk from the 1940s, offers pungent and individual delights...Throughout the album the BBC Philharmonic plays with bright colours, a sharp attack and swaggering energy...
About
Ruth Gipps (1921 – 1999) was born in the English seaside resort of Bexhill-on-Sea. Encouraged as a child by an ambitious pianist mother, she appeared locally as a prodigy pianist. She was accepted by the Royal College of Music in 1937, at the age of sixteen, having won the Caird Scholarship. She quickly matured, both as composer and pianist. She studied with Vaughan Williams and Gordon Jacob, and later the oboe with Leon Goossens. During the Second World War she gained a position as oboist with the City of Birmingham Orchestra and devoted a great deal of her time to composing. Three of the works on this album were composed during the war: the Oboe Concerto, the tone poem Death on the Pale Horse, and the overture Chanticleer (derived from an opera which, sadly, she never completed). The manuscript of the Third Symphony is dated 1 November 1965 and the work was first heard when Gipps introduced it with her London Repertoire Orchestra, on 19 March 1966. Its first professional performance took place on 29 October 1969, Gipps directing the BBC Scottish Orchestra, but it has since gone largely unheard, until now.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceOctober 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards2023Nominated - Conductor of the Year
December 2022
Each of this foursome, the bulk from the 1940s, offers pungent and individual delights...Throughout the album the BBC Philharmonic plays with bright colours, a sharp attack and swaggering energy – just what this dip into Gipps deserves.
May/June 2023
Rumon Gamba leads a glorious performance by the BBC Philharmonic, and Chandos’s brilliant recorded sound does Gipps’s symphony full justice. Gipps’s Third is well up the ladder of 20th-century symphonies—by composers of either sex.
December 2022
The BBC Philharmonic sound as though they relished communing with the music throughout, and Chandos’s sound is firstrate. Warmly recommended.
October 2022
Gipps's 1943 tone-poem Death on the Pale Horse is scarcely less atmospheric than Rachmaninoff's Isle of the Dead, with the BBC Philharmonic brass revelling in the near-Mahlerian bugle-calls. The characterful Chanticleer Overture, with its arresting opening cock-crow, makes one regret that Gipps never completed the projected opera, whilst the pastoral Oboe Concerto testifies to the composer's own mastery of the instrument and her affection for her friend and colleague Marion Brough.
