Composers: Dora Bright, Ruth Gipps
Performers: Samantha Ward, Murray McLachlan p, Royal Liverpool PO/Charles Peebles
Catalogue Number: SOMM SOMMCD0273

A steadily building renewal of interest in the works of English composer Ruth Gipps (1921-1999) has resulted in fine new recordings of her orchestral works, including two symphonies (Chandos, 2018). This welcome new recording of her 1947 Piano Concerto in G Minor, Op. 34 is of particular interest because Gipps was a fine pianist herself until a shoulder injury in the 1950s curtailed her performance career. By this time, however, she had already been...