Gipps - Dedication: The Clarinet Chamber Music
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0641
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 17th September 2021
Contents
Works
Clarinet Sonata, op.45Prelude for bass clarinet, op.51
Quintet for oboe, clarinet and string trio, op.16
Rhapsody in E flat, op.23
The Kelpie of Corrievreckan, op.5b
Artists
Peter Cigleris (clarinet)Gareth Hulse (oboe)
Duncan Honeybourne (piano)
Tippett Quartet
Works
Clarinet Sonata, op.45Prelude for bass clarinet, op.51
Quintet for oboe, clarinet and string trio, op.16
Rhapsody in E flat, op.23
The Kelpie of Corrievreckan, op.5b
Artists
Peter Cigleris (clarinet)Gareth Hulse (oboe)
Duncan Honeybourne (piano)
Tippett Quartet
About
Based on a Scottish legend, the early The Kelpie of Corrievreckan, op.5b, is an evocative miniature for clarinet and piano revelling in Gipps’s facility for locating a human dimension within a tragic fantasy; the Rhapsody in E flat for clarinet and string quartet, op.23, is described by Robert Matthew-Walker in his informative booklet notes adroitly placing Gipps’s music within the wider context of her career and personal life, as “a fluent, masterfully eloquent composition”.
The Prelude for Bass Clarinet, op.51, 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’s 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 (SOMMCD0194) was admired by The Strad for its “radiant insight and affection… beguiling lustre and allure”.
SOMM’s coupling of Gipps’s Piano Concerto with works by Dora Bright (SOMMCD273) 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’s Concerto “seizes one immediately with her distinctive personality and voice”.
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