Rumon Gamba’s exploration of the music of Ruth Gipps continues with these world premiere recordings of the Fifth Symphony, Violin Concerto, and Leviathan. Composed in 1943 and conceived for her elder brother, Bryan, the Violin Concerto is large in scale and shows remarkable assurance of touch for a twenty-two-year-old composer. Leviathan, for double-bassoon and orchestra, dates from the late 1960s, and demonstrates Gipps’s tremendous ability to write for wind instruments as well as her skills as an orchestrator, allowing the solo line to dominate despite its unusual tessitura. The Fifth Symphony, completed in 1982 and dedicated to William Walton, is written for large-scale forces: quadruple wind, six horns, two harps, and extensive percussion. The symphony’s final movement takes the form of a (wordless) Missa brevis for orchestra. Welsh violinist Charlie Lovell-Jones is soloist for the concerto.