English composer Ruth Gipps (1921-1999) was a child prodigy who performed her first composition at the age of eight, won numerous performance competitions (piano), and entered the Royal College of Music on a scholarship in 1937 when she was 16 to study composition with Gordon Jacob and Vaughan Williams. A performance of her tone poem Knight in Armour was conducted by Sir Henry Wood on the 1942 Last Night of the Proms. Nearly 80 years later, it finally receives its premiere recording, along with her Fourth Symphony and a short work, Song for Orchestra.

Also included is her Symphony No 2 (1945), written as one movement but with three sections representing her life before,...