Sir Malcolm Arnold (1921) put an end to his career as leading trumpeter with several famous London symphony orchestras to become a full-time composer. He became world famous with his soundtrack music...
The Open Window by Malcolm Arnold is an opera in one act based on the story by H. H. Munro. Vocal score.
Peterloo is the derisive name given to an incident on 16 August 1819, in St Peter's Fields, Manchester, when an orderly crowd of some 8,000 people met to hear a speech on political reform. On the orde...
Instrumentation: 2222 - 4230 - timp - perc(1): cyms/glsp/tam-t/BD - strings
This is indeed a substantial piece of music and there is never any doubt it was written by a symphonist. The orchestration is both clever and brilliant. . .a contemporary masterpiece.Schenectady Gazet...
The chilling slow movement seems to me to be one of the great symphonic essays written by an Englishman.Michael Kennedy, Daily Telegraph, 1 June 1991, Instrumentation: picc.2.2.2.2.cbsn - 4331 - timp...
Malcolm Arnold's Clarinet Concerto No. 2, Op. 115, was dedicated to Benny Goodman, and first performed by him as part of the Red Rocks Music Festival with the Denver Symphony Orchestra conducted by Br...
... steers an admirably judged course between neo-classicism and neo-romanticism... Edward Greenfield, The Guardian, 1966
Piano Trio composed in 1956, scored for Piano, Violin, Cello. Duration 13 minutes.