The Crossings / Suite in A for Violin and Orchestra / The Cat and the Wedding Cake / etc
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CECIL ARMSTRONG GIBBS
The Crossings / Suite in A for Violin and Orchestra / The Cat and the Wedding Cake / etc
Charles Mutter (violin) Ben Dawson (piano) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp
[ Dutton Epoch SACD / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Sunday 1 May 2016
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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. Gibbs's music is very much an escapist art, full of charming tunes - as exemplified by The Enchanted Wood, which the composer described as "a dance phantasy," and the full orchestral version of his most popular work, the haunting slow waltz Dusk. In a similar light music vein are the attractive The Cat and the Wedding Cake (from the television operetta Mr. Cornelius) and Four Orchestral Dances, written for a BBC Light Music Festival. In contrast are the Symphonic poem A Vision of Night, which reflects Gibbs's enthusiasm for the new music at the Diaghilev ballet, and the neo-classical Suite in A for violin and orchestra.
Tracks:
Crossings - suite for orchestra, Op. 20
The Enchanted Wood, Op. 25 (1919) - a dance phantasy for piano, violin obbligato and strings with soloists
A Vision of Night, Op. 38 - Symphonic Poem
Dusk (from Fancy Dress)
Suite, Op. 101
The Cat and the Wedding Cake (from the television operetta Mr Cornelius)
Four Orchestral Dances
