Cecil
Armstrong Gibbs
A
Brief Discography
This is
not meant to be a complete discography
of all Cecil Armstrong Gibb's material.
It represents only those CDs that are
available or have recently been on sale.
Some of these will now only be found
in second-hand CD shops. However I have
included them for completeness.
Cecil
Armstrong Gibb Web Pages by Angela Aries
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Cecil
Armstrong Gibbs:
Symphonies
Symphony
No.1; Symphony No.3 (Westmoreland)
National
Symphony Orchestra of Ireland conducted
by Andrew Penny.
Marco Polo
8223553
Cecil
Armstrong Gibbs:
Songs
A Ballad
Maker; The Bells Op.14 No.2; Ballad
of Semmerwater; The Tiger-Lily; The
Splendour Falls; Five Eyes Op.15 No.2;
As I lay in the early sun; Silver Op.30
No.2; The Sleeping Beauty; The Wanderer;
Take heed, young heart; Proud Maisie;
Jenny Jones; Padriac the Fiddler; Down
in Yonder Meadow; Dream song; Midnight;
The Witch; The Cherry Tree; Hypochondriacus;
Dusk; 'Crossings' Song Cycle Op.20:
Araby, Ann's Cradle Song, Beggars Song,
Candlestick Maker's Song.
Nik Hancock-Child,
baritone and Rosemary Hancock-Child,
piano
Marco Polo
8223458
Cecil
Armstrong Gibbs: Songs
The Bells
Op.14 No2; To one who passed whistling
through the night; Summer Night; The
Fields are Full; Take heed young heart;
When I was one and twenty; The Birch
Tree; Lullaby; The Sleeping Beauty;
Ballad of Semmerwater; Tom o'Bedlam;
The Mad Prince; Hypochondriacus; Neglected
Moon; The Rejected Lover; Arrogant Poppies;
Sailing Homeward; The Tiger-Lily; The
Splendour Falls; Titania; Danger; Nightfall;
Silver; Mistletoe; The Oxen; In the
Highlands; By a Bierside; Araby; Ann's
Cradle Song; Five Eyes; The Wanderer;
The Flooded Stream; Four Songs for a
Mad Sea Captain Op.111: Hidden Treasure,
Abel Wright, Toll the Bell, The Golden
Ray.
Geraldine
McGreevy, soprano; Stephen Varcoe, baritone;
Roger Vignoles, piano.
Hyperion
CDA67337 review
Cecil
Armstrong Gibbs
- Dale & Fell
Prelude
Andante & Finale Op.112; Dale &
Fell Suite for String Orchestra; Threnody
for Walter de la Mare; A Spring Garland
Op.84; Almayne Op.71; Suite for Strings.
Guildhall
Strings conducted by Robert Salter
Hyperion
CDA67093 review
Peacock
Pie
Madeline
Dring:
Festival Scherzo; Cecil Armstrong
Gibbs: Peacock Pie & Concertino;
Gordon Jacob, Concertino; Robin
Milford: Concertino in E Op.106;
Cyril Rootham: Miniature Suite.
Martin
Roscoe, piano; Guildhall Strings Ensemble
Hyperion
CDA67316. review
[CSS] review
[CF] review
[IL] review
[HC]
The
Griller Quartet plays English Rarities
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
Griller String Quartet, Helen Gaskell
Dutton CDBP9762
Lakeland
Pictures
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.
Alan Cuckston,
piano
Swinsty
FEW 123CD
Hounds
of Spring
Paul Corder:
Nine Preludes; William Hurlstone:
Capriccio in B minor; Ernest Farrar:
Valse Caprice & Shadow Dance; J.B.McEwan:
Three Preludes; Frederick Delius:
Dance for Harpsichord & Three Preludes;
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: Four Preludes;
Herbert Howells: Phantasy.
Alan Cuckston,
piano
Swinsty
FEW 118CD
English
String Miniatures.
John Rutter:
Suite on Traditional Melodies; C.W.
Orr: A Cotswold Hill Tune; George
Melachrino: Les Jeux; Peter Dodd:
Irish Idyll; Cecil Armstrong Gibbs:
Miniature Dance Suite; Frank Cordell:
King Charles Galliard; David Lyon:
Short Suite; Roy Douglas: Cantilena;
Philip Lane: Pantomime.
Royal Ballet
Sinfonia conducted by David Lloyd-Jones.
Naxos 554186
review
Minor
Notices
Arte Nova
Voices
includes Cecil Armstrong Gibb's
'Three Men of Gotham' with works by
Paul Edmonds, Cecil Engelhardt, Michael
Balfe Cecile Louise Chaminade, Renato
Brogi, Luigi Denza, Johannes Brahms,
H Weidt, Carl Hirsch & Felix Mendelssohn.
Peter Edelmann,
Paul Armin Edelmann, baritones &
Philp Moll, piano
Arte Nova
80788
Britain's
Choice includes
Cecil Armstrong Gibb's 'Dusk'
with works by Percy Grainger, Roger
Quilter, Geoffrey Toye, Henry Balfour
Gardiner, Gordon Langford, Robert Farnon,
Ernest Tomlinson, Trevor Duncan, Frederic
Curzon, Ronald Binge, Robert Docker
& Peter Hope.
Light Music
Society Orchestra conducted by Vivian
Dunn
Vocalion
CDLK4182 (2CD set)
British
Light Music Classics Volume 1
includes Cecil Armstrong Gibb's
'Dusk' with works by Wilhelm Meyer Lutz,
Geoffrey Toye, Archibald Joyce, Albert
William Kettelby, Edward White, Charles
Ancliffe, Anthony Collins, Robert Farnon,
Vivian Ellis, Frederic Curzon, Eric
Coates, Sydney Baynes, Charles Williams,
Ronald Binge
New London
Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp
Hyperion
66868
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
UK Light
62020
British
Light Music Miniatures
includes Cecil Armstrong Gibb's
'Dusk' with work by Anthony Collins,
Mark Lubbock, Benjamin Frankel, Vivian
Ellis, Arthur Benjamin, Robert Docker,
Edward Elgar, Harry Dexter, Ken Warner,
Gordon Jacob, Ernest Tomlinson, Gilbert
Vinter, Geoffrey Toye, Edward White,
George Melachrino and Clive Richardson.
RTE Concert
Orchestra conducted by Ernest Tomlinson
Marco Polo
8223522
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.
The
Gentlemen of St. John's College Choir
Etcetera
Records 66868
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.
Christopher
Gray, organ; Truro Cathedral Choir conducted
by Andrew Nethsingha
Priory
Records 710
English
Organ Music from Hull City Hall
includes Cecil Armstrong Gibbs's
'Lyric Melody' from Six Sketches for
Organ Book One with works by Basil Harwood,
Thomas Dunhill, Percy Whitlock, Christopher
Steel, William Faulkes and Francis Jackson.
Roger
Fisher, organ
Amphion
PHICD197
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.
Felicity
Lott, soprano & Graham Johnston,
piano.
Chandos
Collect CHAN6653 [originally released
on CHAN 8722]
Forever
England includes Cecil Armstrong
Gibb's 'A Song of Shadows Op.15
No.3' with works by Henry Purcell, William
Byrd, John Rutter, Benjamin Britten,
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar
Performers:
Judy Loman, Simon Preston, Ruth Watson
Henderson, Paul Houle, Margaret Wolfe,
Gillian Howard
Conductor: James Judd, Willfried Boettcher,
Jean Ashworth Bartle
Orchestra/Ensemble: Hallé Orchestra,
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Toronto
Children's Chorus
IMP Carlton
Classics 6702799
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
Dame
Janet Baker, Martin Isepp, piano
Regis
RRC1265
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
St.
Martin's Chamber Choir conducted by
Timothy J. Krueger
St
Martin's Chamber Choir 7905
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.
Harry
Sever, Robert Bottone, piano
Herald
HAVPCD311
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.
Queen's
Hall Light Orchestra
Dutton
Vocalion CDEA 6021 & 6061
The Singers
- Maggie Tayte
includes Cecil Armstrong Gibb's
'The Fields are full of summer still'
with works by Jaques Offenbach, Andre
Messager, Gabriel Faure, Reynaldo Hahn,
Anton Dvorak, Henry Gibson, Sigmund
Romberg, Charles Cuvillier, Noel Coward,
Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Roger
Quilter, Frederick Delius, Frank Bridge,
Amherst Webber & Graham Peel.
Maggie
Teyte, soprano; George Reeves &
Rita Mackay, piano.
London Decca
467916 review
Steal
Away to Jesus-
Spirituals and Prayers includes Cecil
Armstrong Gibbs's 'Tranquility'
with works by Josquin Des Préz,
John Sheppard, Thomas Tallis, William
Byrd, Franz Schubert, Leos Janácek,
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Frederick Delius,
Francis Poulenc, Traditional
Wells
Cathedral Choir conducted by Andrew
Nethsingha
Griffin
4050
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.
Symposium
1183
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John France 29 June 2007