THE LADY OF THE LAMBS Op.79 (score & parts)

Written in 1992 as part of a gift for Elizabeth Yeoman from the Composers' Guild, to mark her retirement. The first performance was given on 21st January 1993 at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.
Despite her love for wind instruments, this short work is the only wind quintet that Ruth Gipps wrote. Like The Pony Cart, Op.73, the music is clearly another example of parlour music. It is one of twenty short songs written as part of an Elizabethan Songbook, written in honour of Elizabeth Yeoman.
The text, Alice Meynell's 'The Shepherdess', describes the English countryside and, quite literally, a Shepherdess - a Lady of the Lambs. The music lilts in a 6/8 time signature, is rhythmically simple and the quintet acts as a humble accompaniment, a colouring, to the text sung by the soprano.
- notes courtesy of Ben Goldscheider

Recorded on 'Ruth Gipps: Winds of Change' (Three Worlds Records) by Ben Goldscheider and the London Chamber Orchestra.

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