Juliana Koch, BBC Philharmonic & Rumon Gamba - Gipps: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 255 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 176 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:15:57
Classical | Label: Chandos Records
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 255 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 176 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:15:57
Classical | Label: Chandos Records
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).