While listening to Richard Hickox conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in these performances of Malcolm Arnold's first two symphonies, one is made aware over and over again of just how fine a conductor Hickox is and just how fine an orchestra the L.S.O. is. That Hickox is almost certainly the best English conductor of his generation is proven in ...
Richard Hickox and the London Symphony Orchestra do all they can to make great and sublime music out of Malcolm Arnold's Symphony No. 3 and No. 4. Hickox leads with precision, power, and inspiration. The L.S.O. plays with conviction, concentration, and tremendous virtuosity. And to the extent that Arnold's Symphony No. 3 and No. 4 are great and ...
Long eclipsed by his film scores, concertos, and symphonies, the two string quartets of Malcolm Arnold are gradually finding their proper place in the repertoire, and the growing number of recordings made since the 1990s bodes well for their popular acceptance. Even though these quartets are abstractly modernist in conception and content, falling ...
British horn virtuoso David Pyatt performs five little-known horn concertos by his countrymen and -women on this effort. The composers are of approximately the same generation, all born around the turn of the twentieth century, and four of the pieces (excluding Ruth Gipps' 1969 concerto) were written between 1942 and 1957, during the height of ...
It may come as a surprise to some that there is enough English music composed for the combination of flute, oboe, and piano to fill an entire CD, but, as this collection demonstrates, there is and a lot of it is quite good. And while some of the composers here will be unfamiliar except to fans of English music -- Eugene Goossens, Richard Rodney ...
This may or may not be the greatest recording of the orchestral music of Malcolm Arnold ever released -- there have been some other terrific recordings by Richard Hickox and Arnold himself -- but it may be the single most representative recording of Arnold's many-faceted orchestral music ever released. There are several strong arguments for this ...
This splendid CD by the British ensemble East Winds (not to be confused with the U.S. East Winds Ensemble) will deepen the general appreciation for Malcolm Arnold, inasmuch as the composer's music for winds, with the possible exception of the genial Three Shanties, Op. 4, remains known mostly to enthusiasts outside of Britain. The music comes from ...
The essence of this recording can be understood through two of the featured titles: Overture: Beckus the Dandipratt and Concerto for Two Pianos (Three Hands), and the fact that one of the selections concludes with a rambunctious, tambourine-fueled rumba. Featuring the two above-named works plus Malcolm Arnold's Fantasy on a Theme of John Field and ...
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