Tuesday, February 20, 2024

For Ruth Gipps’ birthday…

… (born on this day in 1921 at Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex), the second movement of her piano concerto.  Charles Peebles conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; the soloist is Murray McLachlan.

I thoroughly enjoyed a performance of her horn concerto at the Cadogan Hall earlier this month (Alexi Watkins the soloist, with the Kensington Symphony Orchestra under Russell Keable).  I have now been able to attend live performances of her horn and clarinet concertos, and her fourth and fifth symphonies: the sign of a real and sustained revival in her fortunes.

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