Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (10 August 1889 – 12 May 1960) was a prolific and versatile English composer. Though best known for his choral music and, in particular, songs, Gibbs also devoted much of his career to the amateur choral and festival movements in Britain. Although his music is rarely played today he attained a high level of popularity in his lifetime. His slow waltz "Dusk" for orchestra and piano earned him more royalties than any of his other works combined. It was requested by Princess Elizabeth to be performed on her 18th birthday.
Genre: british-modern-classical
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Top Tracks
- Gibbs: Dance Suite, Op. 82, "Fancy Dress": III. Dusk (Waltz)
- Fancy Dress: Dusk
- Concerto for Oboe & Orchestra, Op.48: iii. Allegro con brio
- Concerto for Oboe & Orchestra, Op.48: ii. Lento assai - cadenza
- Concerto for Oboe & Orchestra, Op.48: i. Andante, molto rubato
- Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 70: III. Allegro con brio
- Fancy Dress - Suite: Pageantry
- Fancy Dress - Suite: Dusk
- Fancy Dress - Suite: Hurly Burly
- Sailing Homeward
- Sailing Homeward
- While the Shepherds Were Watching
- The Stable Door
- A:2 Minuet No. 2 (from Suite in A, Op. 144) (accompaniment)
- A:2 Minuet No. 2 (from Suite in A, Op. 144)
- Fancy Dress, Op. 82: III. Dusk
- The Stable Door
- 6 Sketches: No. 6, Processional March
- 6 Sketches: No. 5, Folk-Song
- 6 Sketches: No. 4, Quiet Thoughts
Albums (41)
- Hymn to the Sun (2026)
- The Essential RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (2024)
- Dreams, Desires & Desolation (2023)
- Gibbs: String Quartets (2023)
- British Classical Music Masterpieces (2022)
- The Songs of C. Armstrong Gibbs (2022)
- Discover the Songs of C. Armstrong Gibbs (2022)
- Classical Pops Concert: British Light Classics! (2019)
- My Playlist for Gardening (2018)
- Come to Me in My Dreams (2018)
- Archive Collection, Vol. 1 (2018)
- Organs of the Lake District (2017)
- Another Way (2013)
- Kathleen Ferrier & Janet Baker Sing British Songs (Recorded 1949-1962) (2013)
- A Winter's Light: A Christmas Collection (2012)
- The Merrymakers - British Light Classics (2012)
- Fairy Songs (2012)
- 100 Best British Classics (2012)
- Time Traveller: Wartime Britain (2012)
- The Power of Love: An English Songbook (2012)
- British Light Classics (2011)
- Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Cyril Scott, Christopher Wright & Elis Pehkonen: Oboe Concertos (2010)
- Steal Away to Jesus - Spirituals and Prières (2010)
- Celebrating 50 Years Devoted to British Music, Set 1 – William Alwyn to John Ireland (2009)
- The Golden Age of Light Music: The 1930s Revisited - Vol. 3 (2009)
- Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: Odysseus & George Dyson Four Songs for Sailors (2008)
- Box of Delights: British Light Music Gems (2007)
- Ca' The Yowes, A collection of 20th century part songs (2006)
- English Song (2004)
- Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: Songs (2003)
- Peacock Pie: English Music for Piano & Strings (2002)
- English String Miniatures, Vol. 1 (2001)
- The Complete New English Hymnal, Vol. 10 (2001)
- Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: Dale and Fell & Other Chamber Music (1999)
- British Light Music Classics, Vol. 1 (1996)
- Miniatures (British Light Music) (1994)
- Gibbs: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 (1994)
- The Best Of British Song (1994)
- Gibbs: Songs (1993)
- Mostly Britten (1970)
- Felicity Lott sings English Songs (1990)
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