Gipps, Ruth (1921-1999)

[Bryn]

Something of a Gipps festival this coming week on 3, with works alongside others including by British composers Elgar, Blackford, Tippett, Parry, Hesketh, Vaughan Williams, Musgrave and Walton. It will be interesting to find out if her music shares the forthright if rather conservative idiom (for its time) of the PC. Blackford and Hesketh are new names to me, too.

Mon 24 Sept
2pm - Afternoon Concert

Gipps - Symphony No 4

Tues 25 Sept
2pm - Afternoon Concert

Gipps - Symphony No 2

Weds 26 Sept - 3.20pm

Gipps - Knight in Armour

Fri 28 Sept
2pm - Afternoon Concert

Gipps - Song for Orchestra

All performed by the BBC Natioonal Orchestra of Wales, conductor Rumon Gamba.

These from/for a newly released Chandos CD.

[antongould]

Something of a Gipps festival this coming week on 3, with works alongside others including by British composers Elgar, Blackford, Tippett, Parry, Hesketh, Vaughan Williams, Musgrave and Walton. It will be interesting to find out if her music shares the forthright if rather conservative idiom (for its time) of the PC. Blackford and Hesketh are new names to me, too.

Mon 24 Sept
2pm - Afternoon Concert

Gipps - Symphony No 4

Tues 25 Sept
2pm - Afternoon Concert

Gipps - Symphony No 2

Weds 26 Sept - 3.20pm

Gipps - Knight in Armour

Fri 28 Sept
2pm - Afternoon Concert

Gipps - Song for Orchestra

All performed by the BBC Natioonal Orchestra of Wales, conductor Rumon Gamba.

Love the Song For Orchestra looking forward to widening my horizons ......

[teamsaint]

Something of a Gipps festival this coming week on 3, with works alongside others including by British composers Elgar, Blackford, Tippett, Parry, Hesketh, Vaughan Williams, Musgrave and Walton. It will be interesting to find out if her music shares the forthright if rather conservative idiom (for its time) of the PC. Blackford and Hesketh are new names to me, too.

Mon 24 Sept
2pm - Afternoon Concert

Gipps - Symphony No 4

Tues 25 Sept
2pm - Afternoon Concert

Gipps - Symphony No 2

Weds 26 Sept - 3.20pm

Gipps - Knight in Armour

Fri 28 Sept
2pm - Afternoon Concert

Gipps - Song for Orchestra

All performed by the BBC Natioonal Orchestra of Wales, conductor Rumon Gamba.

Kenneth Hesketh
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[Lat-Literal]

Something of a Gipps festival this coming week on 3, with works alongside others including by British composers Elgar, Blackford, Tippett, Parry, Hesketh, Vaughan Williams, Musgrave and Walton. It will be interesting to find out if her music shares the forthright if rather conservative idiom (for its time) of the PC. Blackford and Hesketh are new names to me, too.

Mon 24 Sept
2pm - Afternoon Concert

Gipps - Symphony No 4

Tues 25 Sept
2pm - Afternoon Concert

Gipps - Symphony No 2

Weds 26 Sept - 3.20pm

Gipps - Knight in Armour

Fri 28 Sept
2pm - Afternoon Concert

Gipps - Song for Orchestra

All performed by the BBC Natioonal Orchestra of Wales, conductor Rumon Gamba.

Wow.

What fantastic news.

I have been banging this particular drum on the forum for getting on a for a decade.

[LMcD]

I see that the London Repertoire Orchestra is still going strong. Back in the early 1970s, a Finnish work colleague, who was a bassoonist in the orchestra, persuaded me to go along to some of their rehearsals, which were conducted by Ruth Gipps at that time. I also remember watching a performance of the Brahms 4th symphony.

[Barbirollians]

I was interested reading the Gramophone review and bought the Chandos CD as a result.

I am very impressed by the Fourth Symphony - ought to appeal a great deal to fans of RVW.

[Lat-Literal]

I see that the London Repertoire Orchestra is still going strong. Back in the early 1970s, a Finnish work colleague, who was a bassoonist in the orchestra, persuaded me to go along to some of their rehearsals, which were conducted by Ruth Gipps at that time. I also remember watching a performance of the Brahms 4th symphony.

I was interested reading the Gramophone review and bought the Chandos CD as a result.

I am very impressed by the Fourth Symphony - ought to appeal a great deal to fans of RVW.

Thank you very much for these recent posts which are of considerable interest to me. I am just about to buy the new disc which many might say is long overdue. It appears to have been a good year for Ruth. There was also the US premiere of her second symphony by the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra which I am posting here. The occasional accusations of her being derivative do not, I feel, hold true when one considers the music in this link with the piano concerto for there is definitely a distinctive and, to my mind, vivid "Gipps sound".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FSm_DUbb_0

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gipps-Bbc-National-Orchestra-Wales/dp/B07GJ55657/ref=sr_1_5?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1545439047&sr=1-5-mp3-albums-bar-strip-0&keywords=Bbc+National+Orchestra+Of+Wales

[Barbirollians]

Thank you very much for these recent posts which are of considerable interest to me. I am just about to buy the new disc which many might say is long overdue. It appears to have been a good year for Ruth. There was also the US premiere of her second symphony by the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra which I am posting here. The occasional accusations of her being derivative do not, I feel, hold true when one considers the music in this link with the piano concerto for there is definitely a distinctive and, to my mind, vivid "Gipps sound".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FSm_DUbb_0

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gipps-Bbc-N...estra+Of+Wales

I have listened to the record a lot LL . It is very rewarding the Second is very fine too.

[Lat-Literal]

I have listened to the record a lot LL . It is very rewarding the Second is very fine to

Thank you Barbirollians.

[Lat-Literal]

I went on to the Chandos site and it was indicating that the new Ruth Gipps CD could take weeks or even months to be delivered so I turned to Amazon and got it in 24 hours.

Not difficult to see how and why they are so successful.

[Cockney Sparrow]

I've found a short web article on Ruth Gipps, maybe as a preliminary to sourcing the Biography referred to above.

https://corymbus.co.uk/in-search-of-ruth-gipps/

[Edgy 2]

I mentioned the Chandos cd briefly on the absent friends thread of all places.
It’s also in the Naxos library.

[Serial_Apologist]

I notice that Gipps's 40-minute Symphony No 3 is featured on Afternoon Concert this coming Wednesday (4th - 3pm start). With that in mind I've just given the 2nd symphony a listen - rather a fine work combining a post-RVW forthrightness with beautifully-scored passages of atmospheric "landscape music". Funny to think that her music tended to be dismissed as not forward-thinking enough in 1945: I once had strong ideas about what that meant.

[antongould]

I notice that Gipps's 40-minute Symphony No 3 is featured on Afternoon Concert this coming Wednesday (4th - 3pm start). With that in mind I've just given the 2nd symphony a listen - rather a fine work combining a post-RVW forthrightness with beautifully-scored passages of atmospheric "landscape music". Funny to think that her music tended to be dismissed as not forward-thinking enough in 1945: I once had strong ideas about what that meant.

Thanks S_A I will, hopefully, give it my full attention .....

[frankbridge]

I've got Ruth Gipps' Horn Concerto with David Pyatt on Lyrita (for the record, SRCD 316), and it's a fine work. In fact her relationship with the CBSO is of interest, as well as being the soloist in the Glazunov Piano Concerto in 1945, she was also playing the ranks as oboe and cor anglais player with that orchestra, and her own first performance of her 1st symphony was given in the same concert! Quite an achievement...

And her music is being given greater coverage by the issue recently on Chandos with Ruman Gamba, and rightly so. Her tone poem 'Knights in Armour' should be widely broadcast...