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LYRITA RECORDS RELEASES THE COMPLETE SONGS OF CECIL ARMSTRONG GIBBS

21/3/2022

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Lyrita Records releases the first recording ofCecil Armstrong Gibbs' complete songs on 4 March 2022 (SRCD.2400). This four-album set is performed by tenor Nathan Vale, soprano Charlotte de Rothschild and pianist Adrian Farmer. A one-volume compilation from the full set offers an introduction to Gibbs' wonderful collection of songs (SRCD.404).

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Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960) was a pupil of Vaughan Williams, and stands alongside Howells, Bax and Bliss as one of an outstanding generation of early and mid-twentieth century British composers. Alongside three symphonies, his famous slow waltz Dusk and a fine body of theatre, sacred and chamber music, Gibbs was a prolific writer of songs. This four album set from Lyrita Records includes all 107 of Gibbs' songs, many recorded for the first time.

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Antony Smith of the Nimbus Group, which manages Lyrita, comments: 'In recording this project, the consistent quality of Gibbs' songs surpassed all our expectations. Alongside his most famous songs, for example settings of poems by his friend Walter de La Mare, are wonderful discoveries – for example To Anise, The Cherry Tree, On Duncton Hill, The Tiger-Lily, Midnight, Slow Horses Slow, The Exile and Take Heed Young Heart. These will be concert winners when programmed by singers, with a direct clarity of expression and supreme sensitivity to text.'

Adrian Farmer, Nathan Vale and Charlotte de Rothschild discuss Gibbs' songs



NIMBUS MUSIC PUBLISHING: GIBBS SONGS

Complementing the release of SRCD.2400 and SRCD.404, Nimbus Music Publishing has released three volumes of Armstrong Gibbs' songs, featured in the albums, in high quality saddle-stitched editions:

NMP1144: Four Songs for Tenor Voice: Willows Leaves: Three Songs After the Chinese Manner (John Irvine) and The Doctor’s Song from ‘Henry Brocken’ (Walter de la Mare)

NMP1145: Four Songs for Soprano Voice: Two Pastorals (H.T. Wade-Gery), Jane Eyre’s Song and Lorelei’s Songs drom ‘Henry Brocken’ (Walter de la Mare)

NMP1146: Two Songs: The Old House (Grey Hayward Kirkus) and The Rainy Day (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)


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Matthew Marshall link
5/8/2022 05:34:12 pm

I'm afraid it's not a complete set of Armstrong Gibbs songs by any means. The two other recordings - (a) Nik and Ro Hancock-Child (Marco Polo) and (b) Varcoe/McGreevy (Hyperion) between them have Jenny Jones and The Splendour Falls (a), and Summer Night, When I was one-and-twenty, three Midsummer Madness Songs, The Splendour Falls (again), Danger, and the Four Songs for a Mad Sea Captain (b). The Thames Heritage of English Song Vol 8 with 10 songs includes The Splendour Falls and Fulfilment; Novello Songs 1 has Danger, and Novello 2 has the Midsummer Madness three, Summer Night and When I was one-and-twenty. There is also a single song published by Roberton has Covent Garden. I don’t claim to be comprehensive, but these are the ones I have managed to come across so far.

I'm not detracting at all from what you've produced - I'm very grateful for it, have enjoyed listening to it and am looking forward to getting to know the songs I hadn't come across before. I think AG is unfairly ignored and has produced many beautiful musical moments. However, it's a pity you didn't include these other songs, as I'm sure they could easily have fitted within the 80 minute limits of the CDs. Your programme notes suggest The Cherry Tree, The Tiger-Lily and Take heed, Young Heart are unfamiliar - maybe in the past, but the other two CDs have surely put them on the map already. It strikes me that the notes were compiled without reference to Rosemary Hancock-Child's admirable little book on Armstrong Gibbs - if anyone deserves to be known as an expert on him, she is!

I am left still wondering what other little gems are still waiting to be found and published, and hope you might look again and produce a supplementary disc,

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