Malcolm Arnold

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...

Malcolm Arnold Sonatina Op. 41 for Recorder and Piano. Also suitable for flute or oboe.

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons 4 Horns in F, 3 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion (Cymbals, Side drum, Bass drum, Triangle. Tambourine, Glockenspie...

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.

English composer Malcolm Arnold wrote this compact sonatina in 1951 and it has since become one of his most popular instrumental works. As always with Arnold, it is impeccably crafted: the first movem...

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...

The first published edition of Malcolm Arnold's playful 1956 overture written for the Gerald Hoffnung Festival. The orchestral score includes parts for three vacuum cleaners, an electric polisher and...

The study score of Malcolm Arnold's 1955 concert masterpiece in a new engraving and edition.

Tam O'Shanter was first performed at a Henry Wood Promenade Concert on 17 August 1955, with Malcolm Arnold conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was received with tremendous enthusiasm, and...

... a bleak unease in the unrelenting energy of the first movement, which becomes even more discomfiting in the desolate start to the Lento. This leads to a forlorn suggestion of a funeral march, whic...