“An imaginative survey spanning the whole of Gipps career, concentrating on her chamber music for wind right through to one of her last works.”
“As you listen to this disc, Gipps music takes on a particular character, an exploration of themes that arise from English music of the 1930s and 1940s, full of imagination and with interesting harmonic quirks without ever breaking the rules entirely. This is finely crafted music, and it sounds as if it is well written and enjoyable to play. Many of the larger scale works I would be delighted to come across in concert programmes and we have to hope that this disc will encourage ensembles to range a little more widely in their programming.”
Thanks to Robert Hugill at www.planethugill.com/2022/05/winds-of-change-survey-of-ruth-gipps