Dedication - The Clarinet Chamber Music of Ruth Gipps / Tippett Quartet

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Label
SOMM Recordings
Release Date
October 1, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GIPPS, RUTH
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Tippett Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      Cigleris, Hulse, Honeybourne
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 01, 2021
    • UPC
      748871064126
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 0641
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Rhapsody in E-Flat, Op. 23

      Composer: Ruth Gipps

      Ensemble: Tippett Quartet

      Performer: Peter Cigleris

    2. The Kelpie of Corrievreckan, Op. 5b

      Composer: Ruth Gipps

      Performer: Peter Cigleris, Duncan Honeybourne

    3. I. Allegro

      Composer: Ruth Gipps

      Performer: Peter Cigleris, Gareth Hulse, John Mills, Lydia Lowndes-Northcott, Bozidar Vukotic

    4. II. Adagio

      Composer: Ruth Gipps

      Performer: Peter Cigleris, Gareth Hulse, John Mills, Lydia Lowndes-Northcott, Bozidar Vukotic

    5. III. Energico

      Composer: Ruth Gipps

      Performer: Peter Cigleris, Gareth Hulse, John Mills, Lydia Lowndes-Northcott, Bozidar Vukotic

    6. IV. Finale: Allegro moderato

      Composer: Ruth Gipps

      Performer: Peter Cigleris, Gareth Hulse, John Mills, Lydia Lowndes-Northcott, Bozidar Vukotic

    7. Prelude for Bass Clarinet

      Composer: Ruth Gipps

      Performer: Peter Cigleris

    8. I. Maestoso, Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Ruth Gipps

      Performer: Peter Cigleris, Duncan Honeybourne

    9. II. Andante con moto

      Composer: Ruth Gipps

      Performer: Peter Cigleris, Duncan Honeybourne

    10. III. Scherzando

      Composer: Ruth Gipps

      Performer: Peter Cigleris, Duncan Honeybourne

    11. IV. Maestoso, Allegro molto

      Composer: Ruth Gipps

      Performer: Peter Cigleris, Duncan Honeybourne


SOMM Recordings celebrates the centenary of the birth of Ruth Gipps with Dedication, featuring five premiere recordings of chamber works inspired by her clarinetist-husband, Robert Baker, most of which were recently broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week. Based on a Scottish legend, the early The Kelpie of Corrievreckan (Op.5b) is an evocative miniature for clarinet and piano revelling in Gipps’ facility for locating a human dimension within a tragic fantasy; the Op.23 E-flat Rhapsody for clarinet and string quartet described by Robert Matthew- Walker in his informative booklet notes adroitly placing Gipps’ music within the wider context of her career and personal life, as “a fluent, masterfully eloquent composition”. The Op.51 Prelude for Bass Clarinet is a heartfelt soliloquy with a series of dance-like variations at its heart. Two substantial works include the Quintet for Oboe, Clarinet and String Trio, Op.16 – a completion exercise for Gipps’ degree course at Durham University boasting an imaginative intertwining of the individual voices, and the Cobbett Prize-winning Clarinet Sonata composed at a single sitting. “I heard it in my mind and wrote it down as fast as I could scribble”, Gipps later recalled. Making their debuts on SOMM, clarinettist Peter Cigleris, oboist Gareth Hulse and pianist Duncan Honeybourne are joined by the Tippett Quartet, whose coupling of music by William Alwyn and Doreen Carwithen (SOMMCD 0194) was admired by The Strad for its “radiant insight and affection... beguiling lustre and allure”. SOMM’s coupling of Gipps’ Piano Concerto with works by Dora Bright (SOMMCD 273) was universally acclaimed, International Piano declaring it “a treat for fans of English music... unmissable”, MusicWeb International haiing it as “simply outstanding... really impressive”, with BBC Music Magazine remarking that Gipps’ Concerto “seizes one immediately with her distinctive personality and voice”.