Malcolm Arnold

Tirée du film classique de la Seconde Guerre mondiale de 1957 Le pont de la rivière Kwai, voici la célèbre marche de Malcolm Arnold qui incorpore la marche du colonel Bogey de Kenneth Alford ainsi que...

Originally entitled 'Flourish for a 21st Birthday' (opus 44) the work was scored for 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 cornets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani and 3 percussion. This new version for concert band by M...

Joyau rarement joué, cet opéra comique en un acte de 1952 de Malcolm Arnold est adapté de "The Gentleman Dancing Master" de William Wycherley. L'intrigue suit l'héroïne, Miranda, et ses deux prétendan...

Malcolm Arnold is well known to brass players as a composer of often extrovert sounding music specially suited to the bright colors obtainable from brass instruments. . .The first symphony that was wr...

Written to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of the legendary oboist Leon Goossens, and first performed by him and the Carter Trio in 1958, this delightful 13-minute quartet is a fine showcase of Malcol...

Instrumentation: 2.picc.2.2.2 - 4331 - timp - perc(2): cyms/BD/SD/tam-t/glsp/tamb/xyl/cast - harp - strings

Writtend for the 1956 Hoffnung Festival this piece is really the stuff of legend. Features solo efforts by 3 Vacuum Cleaners, 1 lonely Floor-Polisher and 4 Rifles.

Premierd by Leon Goosens under the direction of Boyd Neel in June 1953.