A Shropshire Lad - English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams

A Shropshire Lad

Orchestrations by Roderick Williams

John Ireland (1914-1992)

Great Things

Sea Fever

Ina Boyle (1889-1967)

The Joy of Earth

William Denis Browne (1888-191

To Gratiana dancing and singing

George Butterworth (1885-1916)

Six Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’

Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)

The pulley

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

The House of Life

Madeleine Dring (1923-1977)

Take, O take those lips away

James Burton (b.1974)

When I set out for Lyonesse

Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)

The seal man

Ernest Farrar (1885-1918)

Silent noon

Roderick Williams (baritone)

The Hallé Orchestra

Mark Elder

rec. 2022, Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester

Dora Bright & Ruth Gipps - Piano Concertos

Dora BRIGHT (1862-1951)

Piano Concerto No. 1 in A minor (1888) 

Variations for Piano and Orchestra (1910) 

Ruth GIPPS (1921-1999)

Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 34 (1947) 

Ambarvalia, Op. 70 (1988) 

Samantha Ward (piano)

Murray McLachlan (piano: Gipps concerto)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Charles Peebles

rec. 2019, The Friary, Liverpool

Arthur Butterworth - Symphony No.1; Ruth Gipps - Symphony No.2; Malcolm Arnold - Organ Concerto

Arthur BUTTERWORTH (1934-2014)

Symphony No.1 Op.15 

Ruth GIPPS (1921-99)

Symphony No. 2 Op.30 

Malcolm ARNOLD (1921-2006)

Concerto for Organ and Orchestra Op.47

Ulrik Spang-Hanssen (organ)

Münchner Symphoniker, 

Royal Aarhus Academy Symphony Orchestra

Douglas Bostock

rec. 1998/2001, Arco Studios, München; Gellerup Church, Aarhus, Denmark

British Music for Strings Vol.3 (Works by Smyth, Gipps, Spain-Dunk, Warren)

British Music for Strings III

Dame Ethel SMYTH (1858-1944)

Suite for Strings, Op. 1a (1883/1890) 

Susan SPAIN-DUNK (1880-1962)

Suite for String Orchestra (1920) ed Peter Cigleris 

Constance WARREN (1905-1984)

Heather Hill, for String Orchestra (1929-32)

Susan SPAIN-DUNK

Lament, for String Orchestra (1934) ed Peter Cigleris 

Ruth GIPPS (1921-1999)

Cringlemire Garden, Op. 39 (1952) 

Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim

Douglas Bostock

rec. November 2020, Congress Centrum, Pforzheim

Ruth Gipps - The Clarinet Chamber Music

Ruth GIPPS (1921-1999)

Dedication: The Clarinet Chamber Music of Ruth Gipps

Rhapsody in E flat Op.23 (1942) 

The Kelpie of Corrievreckan (1939) 

Quintet for oboe, clarinet and string trio Op.16 (1941) 

Prelude for bass clarinet Op.51 (1958) 

Sonata for clarinet and piano Op.45 (1955) 

Peter Cigleris (clarinet)

Gareth Hulse (oboe)

Duncan Honeybourne (piano)

Tippett Quartet

rec. 1-2 November 2020, The Menuhin Hall, Stoke d’Abernon, UK

British Horn Concertos - Jacob; Arnold; Bowen; Gipps; Vinter

British Horn Concertos

Gordon JACOB (1895-1984)

Concerto for Horn and Strings (1950s) 

Malcolm ARNOLD (1921-2006)

Concerto No. 2 for Horn and Strings, Op. 58 (1956) 

York BOWEN (1884-1961)

Concerto for Horn, string orchestra and timpani (1956) 

Ruth GIPPS (1921-1999)

Horn Concerto, Op. 58 (1968) 

Gilbert VINTER (1909-1969)

Hunter’s Moon (1943)

David Pyatt (horn)

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Nicholas Braithwaite

rec. Watford Town Hall, 10-21 Jan 1994 (Jacob, Bowen, Arnold); Henry Wood Hall, London, 8-9 Feb 1994 (Gipps, Vinter). DDD