Malcolm Arnold

Bring quintessential British charm and thrilling orchestral splendour to your concert stage with the world-renowned 'English Dances Set 1', expertly arranged for concert band. This exceptional work ta...

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...

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 wri...

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.

This marvellous march is full of the wit and humour that characterises the music of one of Britain's greatest living composers. Padstow is a coastal village in Cornwall in the west of England and whil...

The Sound Barrier Rhapsody is a short, dynamic orchestral tour de force in five discernible sections. It can be fully appreciated as pure music, but it is interesting to note the source of the origina...