Lionel Handy plays four British Cello Sonatas by Smyth, Delius, Gibbs and Britten. He is accompanied by Jennifer Walsh.
De Profundis Clamavi is a two-disc recording of English piano music, contrasting three dramatic sonatas with a vibrant selection of shorter pieces ranging from the sublimely poetic to the darkly rhapsodic.
This project which sought to bring to life these 107 songs of Armstrong Gibbs was undertaken by Adrian Farmer, accompanist and Director of Music at Nimbus Records, and was later joined by Charlotte de Rothschild, an accomplished Soprano with a wide-ranging repertoire, and Nathan Vale, an exciting Tenor.
This recording contains forgotten gems for Flute and Piano from the 20th Century in a huge variety of styles, which have never been commercially recorded, and includes two works for Solo Flute.
This varied selection of tuneful but largely unfamiliar orchestral music by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs includes the delightful suite from his collaboration with Walter de la Mare, the “fairy play” Crossings.
English Fantasy, Peter Cigleris clarinet and Antony Gray, piano includes Cecil Armstrong Gibbs Three Pieces for Clarinet and Piano
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: In the High Alps; Lakeland Pictures; Herbert Howells: Gadabout; Slow Dance; Cobbler’s Hornpipe; There was a most beautiful lady; Triumph Tune; Sarum Sketches; Rhapsody; Jackanapes.
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Cyril Scott, Christopher Wright & Elis Pehkonen: Oboe Concertos. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
Dan Godfrey Encores, Dutton Epoch, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp. Includes the Betrothal, ballet music written by Gibbs in 1923 for the fairy play Maeterlinck
Complete works for violin and piano. Robert Atchison – Violin. Olga Dudnik – Piano. Guild GMCD7353
Recorded at The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 24-25 November 2007 Armstrong Gibbs was once a favourite composer of local choral societies, but his masterpiece, the choral symphony Odysseus, has seldom been heard because it immediately preceded the Second World War and afterwards never really established itself.
Complete Piano Trios. London Piano Trio. Robert Atchison – Violin. Olga Dudnik – Piano. Bozidar Vukotic – Cello. Altamira ABI230105
The Three Graces Trio for violin, cello and piano. ‘The Three Graces’ Sonata in E for violoncello and piano. Lyric sonata for violin and piano op.63. Three pieces for violin and piano. Patricia Reibaud, Igor Kraevsky, Mikhail Istomin Minstrel. ASIN B000066TGA
Dale & Fell, Guildhall Strings Ensemble, Robert Salter, Prelude, Andante & Finale, Dale & Fell Suite, Threnody for Walter de la Mare, A Spring Garland, Almayne, Suite for Strings. Hyperion CDA 67093 1999
Songs by Armstrong Gibbs, Geraldine McGreevy, soprano, Stephen Varcoe, baritone, Roger Vignoles, piano. Hyperion CDA67337
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs Songs, Nik Hancock-Child, baritone, Rosemary Hancock-Child, piano. Marco Polo 8223458
Symphonies Nos. l & 3 National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland Andrew Penny Marco Polo CD 8. 223553 1993
English String Miniatures, Miniature Dance Suite, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, David Lloyd Jones. Naxos 8.554 186 1996
British Light Music Miniatures, Dusk, RTE Concert Orchestra, (Ernest Tomlinson). Marco Polo 8.223522 1993
British Light Music Classics, Dusk, New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp. Hyperion CDA 66868 1995
Peacock Pie, Concertino for piano and string orchestra, Peacock Pie, For string orchestra and piano, Martin Roscoe, Guildhall Strings Ensemble, Robert Salter. Hyperion CDA 67316 2002
British Light Classics Volume 2 includes Cecil Armstrong Gibb’s ‘Dusk’ with works by Daniel Strong Godfrey, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Eric Coates, Charles Williams, Robert Farnon, Geoffrey Toye, Albert William Ketèlbey, Frederic Curzon, Ronald Binge, Sir Hamilton Harty, Charles Ancliffe, Peter Hope, Ernest Bucalossi, Archibald Joyce, Sydney Baynes, Wilhelm Meyer Lutz.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth
Janet Baker English Song Anthology includes Cecil Armstrong Gibbs’s ‘This is a Sacred City’ & ‘Love is a Sickness Op.44/1’ with works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Ireland, Michael Head, Thomas Dunhill, Peter Warlock, Herbert Howells, Ivor Gurney, and Gerald Finzi
The Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra Volumes 1 & 2 includes Cecil Armstrong Gibb’s ‘Dusk’ with music by Robert Busby; Arthur Benjamin; Charles Williams; Robert Farnon; Frederic Curzon; Sidney Torch; Clive Richardson; Eric Coates; Clifton Parker; Len Stevens; Peter Yorke; Haydn Wood; Jack Strachey; Vivian Ellis; Joyce Cocharane; Lloyd Thomas; Geoffrey Henman; James Moody; Richard Addinsell; Jack Beaver; Tony Lowry; Eric Siday; Philip Green; Michael North; John Holliday; Mark Lubbock & Montague Phillips.
Twenty Four Aspects of an Amorous Nature includes Cecil Armstrong Gibb’s, The Cherry Tree with works by John Ireland, Roger Quilter, Maude Valerie White, Gerald Finzi, Michael Head, Peter Warlock, Henry Carey, George Frederic Handel, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gunter Raphael, Arthur Somervell, Edward Elgar & Frank Bridge. Peter Jeffes, tenor and David Woodcock, piano.
My Own Country includes Cecil Armstrong Gibbs’s ‘The Stranger’ and ‘Five Eyes’ with works by Arthur Sullivan, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Roger Quilter, George Dyson, Ivor Gurney, Herbert Howells, Michael Head, Peter Warlock and Benjamin Britten.
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: String Quartet in A major Op.73 Arnold Bax String Quartet No.1 in G major; Elizabeth Maconchy: Quintet for Oboe and Strings; Edrich Cundell: String Quartet in C Op.27
Ca’ the yowes – A Collection of 20th Century Part Songs includes Cecil Armstrong Gibbs’s ‘The Listeners’ with works by Lennox Berkeley, Gustav Holst, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Frederick Delius, Robert Chilcott, Gerald Finzi & Traditional.
A Marian Christmas includes Cecil Armstrong Gibbs’s ‘Cradle Song’ with music by Franz Biebl, David Conte, Robert Parsons, Johannes Brahms, Healey Willan, Gaspar van Weerbeke, Terry Schlenker, Tomás Luis de Victoria, David Cutforth, Peter Warlock, Charles Hubert Parry, Alfred Whitehead, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Hugo Distler, Michael Praetorius
Favourite English Songs includes Cecil Armstrong Gibb’s ‘Silver Op.30 No.2’ with works by Edward Elgar, Maude Valerie White, Thomas Dunhill, Roger Quilter, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Dorothy Hogben, Benjamin Britten, Lennox Berkeley, Geoffrey Bush, Herbert Howells, Frank Bridge, Michael Head, Liza Lehmann, Graham Peel, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Lord Berners, Percy Grainger, Peter Warlock and William Walton.
The Complete New English Hymnal Volume 10 includes Cecil Armstrong Gibb’s ‘Judge eternal, throned in splendour’ with hymn tunes by Charles Wesley, William Jones, James Green, William Croft, John Ireland, William Henry Monk, Richard Redhead, John Randall, Percy Carter Buck, John Roberts, Thomas Olivers and some traditional & anonymous.
This project which sought to bring to life these 107 songs of Armstrong Gibbs was undertaken by Adrian Farmer, accompanist and Director of Music at Nimbus Records, and was later joined by Charlotte de Rothschild, an accomplished Soprano with a wide-ranging repertoire, and Nathan Vale, an exciting Tenor.