RUTH GIPPS: ORCHESTRAL WORKS VOL. 4 - Rumon Gamba, Bill Anderson & Charlie Lovell-Jones Album

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Artist:
Rumon Gamba
Bill Anderson
Charlie Lovell-Jones

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
69:26

Record Label:
Chandos

Stream or Buy:
CD, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify

Release Date
April 11, 2025


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Product Description: Rumon Gamba’s exploration of the music of Ruth Gipps continues with these world première recordings of the Fifth Symphony, Violin Concerto, and Leviathan, performed by the BBC Philharmonic. The acclaimed violinist Charlie Lovell-Jones takes the solo part in the Concerto. Composed in 1943 and conceived for her elder brother, Bryan, the work is large in scale and shows remarkable assurance of touch for a twenty-two-year-old composer. Leviathan, for double-bassoon and orchestra, is performed here by Bill Anderson, contrabassoonist with the BBC Philharmonic. Dating from the late 1960s, the five-minute work demonstrates Gipps’s tremendous ability to write for wind instruments and also her skills as an orchestrator which allow the solo line to dominate despite its unusual tessitura. Completed in 1982 and dedicated to Sir William Walton, Gipps’s Fifth Symphony is written for large-scale forces (quadruple wind, six horns, two harps, and extensive percussion); its final movement unusually takes the form of a Missa brevis for orchestra. On careful listening it becomes possible to identify the unsung words or phrases of the mass with individual instrumental lines; details of the orchestration, too, reflect the spirit of the liturgical sections.

TRACK LIST:

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1 .Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major, Op. 24: I. Moderato Charlie Lovell-Jones, BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba (11:41)

2 . Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major, Op. 24: II. Andante Charlie Lovell-Jones, BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba (06:09)

3 . Violin Concerto in B-Flat Major, Op. 24: III. Allegro Charlie Lovell-Jones, BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba (09:25)

4 . Leviathan, Op. 59 . Bill Anderson, BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba (05:02)

5 . Symphony No. 5, Op. 64: I. Moderato maestoso BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba (12:04)

6 . Symphony No. 5, Op. 64: II. Andante BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba (03:40)

7 . Symphony No. 5, Op. 64: III. Scherzo. Allegro BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba (08:06)

8 . Symphony No. 5, Op. 64: IVa. Missa brevis. Kyrie eleison BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba (01:59)

9 . Symphony No. 5, Op. 64: IVb. Missa brevis. Gloria in excelsis Deo BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba (02:04)

10 . Symphony No. 5, Op. 64: IVc. Missa brevis. Credo in unum Deum BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba (02:14)

11 . Symphony No. 5, Op. 64: IVd. Missa brevis. Hosanna in excelsis BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba (02:25)

12 . Symphony No. 5, Op. 64: IVe. Missa brevis. Agnus Dei BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba (01:51)

13 . Symphony No. 5, Op. 64: IVf. Missa brevis. Coda BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba (02:53)

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