Spain-Dunk & Gipps - Music for Violin and Piano | Guild GMCD7827

Spain-Dunk & Gipps - Music for Violin and Piano

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Label: Guild

Cat No: GMCD7827

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 1st July 2022

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About

Susan Spain-Dunk came from the seaside town of Folkestone. Hers was a family where amateur music making was encouraged. She learned the violin early and was soon playing in local concerts, as well as composing. In 1900 she appeared as soloist in the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in a local concert at Ramsgate and at the age of 21 she enrolled at the Guildhall School of Music and within a year had transferred to the Royal Academy of Music. She thus found herself a student with that amazingly talented generation that included York Bowen, Benjamin Dale, Arnold Bax, Myra Hess, Irene Scharrer and Harriet Cohen.

Another local talent, Ruth Gipps was born in the English south coast seaside resort of Bexhill-on-Sea. In her case she was promoted by an ambitious mother, and as a child prodigy she appeared locally at an early age, and at the age of 16 entered the Royal College of Music, winning the Caird Scholarship. As a composer she studied with Vaughan Williams and Gordon Jacob. Here she developed both as a composer, and also as a pianist giving a noted student performance of Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto at the College. When Sir Henry Wood conducted her tone poem Knight in Armour (which Gipps had completed on 1 April 1940) at the last night of the 1942 Proms, he signalled the emergence of a talented new voice.

Plymouth-born violinist Patrick Wastnage attended Dartington College of Arts from the age of sixteen. He went on to the Guildhall School of Music where he studied with Yfrah Neaman, David Takeno and later with Sándor Végh. After winning various prizes and playing concertos with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, he worked as a freelance player with orchestras including the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Since joining the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1986, he has led a parallel career as soloist and chamber music player performing in concerts all over the UK and abroad.

Elizabeth Dunn studied with Geraldine Peppin at the Guildhall School of Music, where she won prizes including the Kleinwort Cup for outstanding piano playing. Since then she has performed extensively as soloist, accompanist and in chamber groups with members of London orchestras. British contemporary music has played a significant role in her career and she has given first performances of several works written especially for her.

Since meeting as students the long-standing collaboration between Patrick and Elizabeth has included research, performance and premieres of neglected British violin and piano repertoire. Their interest in the music of Susan Spain-Dunk was kindled by Patrick playing in a recording of the Lament for String Orchestra. Patrick's orchestra has also recently performed Ruth Gipps's Horn Concerto.

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