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Ruth Gipps

  • Peter Cigleris performs Ruth Gipps chamber works

    Aug 24th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Chamber music, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Noteworthy Release, Peter Cigleris, Ruth Gipps, Somm Recordings, Tippet Quartet

    This release features a well-balanced program of clarinet chamber works by Ruth Gipps. It includes a solo work, some pieces for clarinet and piano, a clarinet quintet, and a major work for clarinet, oboe, and string quartet. If you’re not familiar with Ruth Gipps, here’s a brief introduction. She was a child prodigy, composing and […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #WomensHistoryMonth Weeks 4 and 5

    Mar 27th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #WomensHistoryMonth, Classical music, Elisabeth Luytens, Emilia Gubitosi, Margaret Sutherland, Ruth Gipps, Soe Tjen Marching, Sophia Corri Dussek, Twitter, Vanessa Lann

    For the third year in a row, the Classics a Day team has chosen women composers as March’s theme. And while some composers (living and dead) have received their due, there are thousands more to discover and rediscover. I challenged myself to seek out women composers I had not featured in previous years. Here are […]

  • The quiet beauty of Dora Bright and Ruth Gipps concertos

    Nov 6th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Charles Peebles, Classical music, Concerto, contemporary classical music, Dora Bright, Murry McLachlan, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Ruth Gipps, Samantha Ward, Somm

    Somm has done a real service to classical music with this release. It features piano concertos by two women — composers who deserve wider audiences. Both compositions by Dora Bright and one of the two Ruth Gipps works are world premiere recordings. All four works are beautifully constructed and enthusiastically performed. Dora Bright was born […]

  • Ruth Gipps Symphonies — Old Fashioned? Well-crafted!

    Mar 9th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, CD Review, Chandos, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Orchestral music, Rumon Gamba, Ruth Gipps

    The 21st Century seems to be the time for the re-discovery of women composers. Obscurity could result from many factors. Some careers were frustrated by societal conventions, as with Amy Beach. Sometimes race was the issue, as with Florence Price. In the case of Ruth Gipps, it seemed to have been something not uncommon with […]

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